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“When faculty and staff members filed their complaint that during a mandatory assembly they were forced to endure a presentation from The Vagina Monologues, I wonder if it included charges related to ‘sexual harassment’ or ‘cruel and unusual punishment,'” ponders Leslie Eastmann of College Insurrection.

She goes on to cite an Inside Higher Ed story written by Charlie Tyson with the details:

Employees at a New Jersey community college filed complaints with the college’s administration after a professor recited a portion of The Vagina Monologues at a mandatory assembly for faculty and staff held roughly two weeks ago.
Mercer County Community College, which enrolls nearly 13,000 full-time and part-time students, received seven complaints from faculty and staff present at the event, Mercer spokesman Jim Gardner said.
The assembly, which approximately 300 faculty and staff members attended, was an end-of-year celebration that coincided with Mercer’s spring graduation ceremonies. The event highlighted the college’s “greatest moments” of the academic year. Full-time faculty and staff were “expected” to attend, Gardner said.
One of the moments the assembly highlighted was Mercer’s early March production of The Vagina Monologues. That earlier performance — which raised money for Womanspace, a domestic violence nonprofit in the Mercer County area — drew no blowback, Gardner said. Not so for the performance’s recreation. Of course, people who attended the full production likely knew they would hear explicit discussion of the play’s eponymous organ — something that people attending an end-of-year ceremony might not expect.
Mercer officials apologized that the assembly presentation, which included sexually frank language, offended some members of the college.

If ever there was a need for a trigger warning, perhaps this occasion was it.

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