The College Fix

Sometimes it seems like the only time college students can have a little fun with stereotypes nowadays is when they mock religion. And not any religion, mind you, but Christianity, Catholicism or Judaism.

Case-in-point: At a “Vagina Monologues” performance over the weekend at Cornell University, this scene unfolded, The Cornell Daily Sun reports:

One particularly amusing performance came from the dynamic duo of Sarah Jefferis, grad, and Elana Loeb ’17, who made the powerful and hilarious skit, “The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy,” their own. The monologue told the story of a lawyer who leaves her profession to become a sex worker working specifically with women (“You don’t find anything like this in tax law!”). At one point during the performance, the two women launched into a full-on emulation of different types of moans, including the “Jewish Moan” (“Oyyyyyyy veyyyyyy!”) and the Irish Catholic Moan (“Oh father forgive me!”), rolling around on the floor in mock convulsions to uproarious audience laughter.

Now, let’s be honest. This skit might have been met with the sound of crickets instead of boisterous laughter if the young ladies rolling in theatric lesbian sexual glee had invoked the name of the Prophet Mohammad, right? But nobody cares when Catholics are thrown under the bus.

Look, this was probably a funny skit. I just want to point out the double standard on colleges today, when everybody freaks out if a gal dresses as a Native American for Halloween, but nobody ever bats an eyelash at (and I’ll borrow the trending term here) “microaggressions” against Jesus-lovers or Jews.

Jennifer Kabbany is associate editor of The College Fix.

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