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A local Florida production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues was changed to The Hoohaa Monologues after the theater received complaints that the word “vagina” was making kids ask annoying questions about human sexuality.

As shown by this little anecdote:

Atlantic Theatres in Atlantic Beach, Florida, received a complaint from a woman who’d seen the advertised title as she drove past with her niece. She said that it had made her niece ask her what a vagina was.

The theatre’s Bryce Pfanenstiel commented: ‘I’m on the phone and asked “What did you tell her?” She’s like, “I’m offended I had to answer the question.”’

So the theatre, anxious to avoid controversy, decided that the childish slang word ‘hoohaa’ was the most appropriate thing to replace ‘vagina’.

Unfortunately, the title-mangling fun ended after the production went back to using the play’s original title after its director demanded for it, insisting nobody has a right to arbitrarily “edit” stuff like that. But maybe if they had relented to using the very kid-friendly title, The Proud Pussy That Won’t Stop Talking, it would be just as fine, too.

via METRO

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