The V Word

According to an article in the Journal News, three female students have been suspended for saying "vagina". The article writes:

"School administrators had warned the girls it would be inappropriate to say the word [vagina] while reading a selection from Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues," but the students were willing to suffer the consequences."

If you can't call a vagina a vagina, what can you call it? It's the clinically correct term for a part of the body that at least 50% of the population has. What do they call in sex ed class at this school, a honey pot? I doubt the science teacher referrs to it as "down there". Or at least I hope they're not......

And in case you don't want to bother clicking on the news link, the passage the girls read is as follows:

"My short skirt is a liberation flag in the women's army. I declare these streets, any streets, my vagina's country."

Sounds pretty good to me. I think there's nothing wrong with reminding an auditorium of youths that wearing a short skirt isn't asking for it. I doubt re-claiming the streets as my "hooha's" country would have the same impact.