Stage play The Vagina Monologues has been renamed at a theatre in Florida after a complaint about the title.
It will be known as The Hoohaa Monologues - a child slang word for the female organ - after a woman in Atlantic Beach complained.
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I. Don't. Believe it. Surely somebody has hacked into the BBC website. Surely. Dear God, no, it's real. In that case: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah *wipes eyes* Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.
I find this extra-funny because where I come from, 'hoo-haa' has absolutely nothing to do with the vagina; it is synonymous with 'fuss' or 'commotion', e.g. "what's all this hoo-haa about?" (Though personally, I've always said 'hoopla'.) This just adds an extra dimension to the humour for me. I just don't get all this hoo-haa about a play with 'vagina' in its title.
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Well, in the venue owner's defense, in an interview I read he basically implied that the owners chose "hoohaa" specifically to poke the critics in the eye by showing how childish it is. They tossed around several other ideas that they felt would be too offensive, and settled on this
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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