Comments on: If “vagina” is controversial, how about “scrotum?”

By: Lanning Taliaferro

Lanning Taliaferro — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:33:02 +0000

Well, the context for both of these words was not public appearance or conversation. One’s a quote from a play and the other is a book.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:49:44 +0000

You guys are trying to compare arms, legs, and elbows to a vagina. They are totally different things. Do you cover up your elbow when you are in public? NO Do you cover your arms in legs in public? NO. Do you cover up your vagina in public? YES.

Seriously people, get real. Do you want me running around naked?

By: Rachel Goldberg

Rachel Goldberg — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:00:59 +0000

Let’s keep discussion of the book here, and discussion of the John Jay students attached to those specific posts, shall we?

Again, scrotum is a correct, scientific term. Why is it controversial for children to know, read, and hear the accurate, clinical terms for their genitalia? We personally haven’t used the word “scrotum,” but my young children (three and six) know that boys have testicles. I will have to glance through the book to see if it is appropriate to read to my children, but the factors in my decision will be things like bigotry and violence. The fact that the word “scrotum” appears is a non-issue to me.

By: Saskboy1

Saskboy1 — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:08:11 +0000

It’s depressing to see the repressed attitudes here about what “polite” people can talk about. Polite people mind their own business, and don’t tease others for using educated words. If someone is embarrassed by clinical talk, then the onus is on them to excuse themselves from the situation, or the grin and bear it.

The student were not allowed to publicly perform the play without reading the passage exactly as intended. Surely the teachers knew of this licensing issue?

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:50:41 +0000

well said Alicia.

By: Alicia Pascale

Alicia Pascale — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:15:20 +0000

I’m getting it (the book). No problems with reading something like that to my kids. Nadia has “Everybody poops” and “The gas we pass”. Scrotum, vagina are body parts just like arms and legs and should be treated as such. Just by making these words an issue is whats screwing up our society. Vocabulary exists to comunicate. A rose is a rose…

By: Lanning Taliaferro

Lanning Taliaferro — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:19:31 +0000

anyone got any opinions about the book?

By: Homosapiens

Homosapiens — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:48:18 +0000

The grandstanding students will get their fifteen minutes of fame on the tabloid show where moms come from the midwest to stand out in the cold and hold up signs that say things like, “cheese rules”.

That this event may be construed as meaningful in terms of women’s rights is pathetic. In the context of our rap-accepting culture, with its flagrant denigration of women and the universal acceptance of same, including in wealthy suburbs like Lewisboro, what’s the logical next step along the path of ‘celebrating’ female empowerment?

The answer is obvious: a teenage scrotum should meet up with a vagina and end up in the ultimate expression of power, the abortion of a fetus. Hooray for the girls!

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:31:58 +0000

since when is vagina slang?
then you cant do a reading of see dick or jane. cause guess what dick is?
when does it stop?

By: Andrew Wiese- Carmel

Andrew Wiese- Carmel — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:16:37 +0000

Hey I think the girls did nothing wrong! They used the proper termiology, so get over it!! why make a big deal, its nothing its a word, show me physical or mental damage from the word! GIRLS I SUPPORT YOU FULLY! ANDREW WIESE IS THE NAME! NEED ANY HELP FIND ME ON MYSPACE OR FACEBOOK!