Disclaimer: This article includes descriptions and quotations of events that occurred at Penn State that some readers might find offensive. Unfortunately events filled with shocking and/or offensive displays are considered cutting edge by radical feminists.
Pennsylvania State University became embroiled in controversy after a November 18th program sponsored by feminists at the university. The program, “CuntFest,” was paid for entirely by student and taxpayer funds.
Sponsored by Womyn’s Concerns and the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, the program garnered $10,000 from Penn State’s University Park Allocation Committee (UPCA), which is responsible for disbursing student fees and general funds earmarked for promoting student activities on campus.
UPAC claimed afterward that it was deceived about the nature of the activities, but as Eric Langborgh of Accuracy in Academia noted, what exactly did UPAC think it was getting when the two groups submitted a description that said the event would “feature woman-centered, cuntlovin’ fun entertainment”?
The events of that evening would be unbelievable if there weren’t so many precedents — and if the feminists who sponsored them didn’t immediately defend them against “right wing” attack.
(Again, this description is going to get very graphic because what happened at Penn State was very graphic.)
Langborgh wrote a long description of the events that he witnessed,
Walking in the host building’s door, potential audience members and other students just going about their business were unwittingly confronted with a four-foot tall ceramic model of a vagina. Conference organizers would then offer what appeared to be fruit juice poured from a spout just underneath the “clitoris” to passersby by asking, “Would you like some ‘pussy juice’?”
The event’s title takes its name from Inga Muscio, who read from her book, “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence,” as well as a new book she is working on.
In a new novel she is writing, for example, Muscio portrays a women who is gang raped and then becomes a serial killer who victimizes six families killing all of the fathers and sons while leaving the women untouched, with the protagonist saying, “They should not have mated with the beast. I left them their daughters.”
That was nothing compared to performance “artist” Jess Dobkin. Dobkin performed partially nude and clearly aimed to shock and titillate her audience rather than enlighten. Here’s one of the less explicit scenes that Langborgh describes,
Innuendo then took a back seat to nudity when she removed her top to reveal her breasts which she had painted to look like smiley faces with her nipples acting as a noses. Coupled with audible gasps from the crowd, she proceeded to suck each breast; presumably to enable her to subsequently thread strings through her pierced nipples. These strings were then used to maneuver her breasts like puppets as she stood behind a prop made to look like a brick house with two holes cut out for her breasts so they could “talk” to one another.
Later Dobbin showed a film she made called Butt-F—ing Bunny which featured paper puppets engaging in various sexual acts including the one described in the title.
Crude? Lewd? According to its organizers, as well as some of the participants, this sort of stuff is empowering for women and anyone who questions it is part of a right-wing backlash against the women’s movement.
Muscio, in particular, pointed out the presence of AIA’s Langborgh saying,
Your school is under attack by this group. They want students to not have access to funding unless it is something Accuracy in Academia thinks is okay. Personally that’s scary, and to me that’s scary as a human being. For you all, and for other people going to school, I’m really scared. It scares me to think that people would prefer to silence someone rather than just let everybody be, you know?
That claim really captures just how much feminism has degenerated from its original goals of sexual equality to a radical faith that seems to be largely unprincipled.
Where once the cry was to end oppression by removing discriminatory barriers to entry in universities, today the campus feminists claim that they are oppressed and silenced unless the state agrees to pay for their four-foot tall replica of a vagina and their speaker who will have her breasts talk to one another.
Sources:
Feminists festival upsets student, state legislator. Daryl Lang and Erica Zarra, The Digital Collegian [Pennsylvania State University], December 7, 2000.
Penn State Feminists Stage X-Rated Event on Students’ Dime. Eric Langborgh, Accuracy In Academia, December 2000.
Unfair attention is given to recent event on campus. Jared S. Cram, Letter to the editor, The Digital Collegian [Pennsylvania State University], December 8, 2000.
That Festival. Jeffrey A. Budney, December 7, 2000.
‘Cuntfest’ Promotes Rights, Responsibilities. Erika Dunsen, December 2000.