I am thoroughly disgusted with Brian Eller’s blatant lack of research and hideously sensationalized statements about “The Vagina Monologues.” When I chose Cal Poly as a university, I did so because I believed it was credible.
Our newspaper represents us and our credibility. If columns like Eller’s are printed lacking most, if any, factual evidence, there is no integrity or reliability at all in either institution.
Talking vaginas? Accepted rape? Anti-male bias where men are portrayed as “incestuous rapists”? None of these are present in the play whatsoever. In fact, many of my male friends are planning on attending, which I would recommend to Eller – except I’m not sure he is mature enough to handle it based on his abject disregard for honorable journalism. It is evident by his selfish journalism that Eller is less concerned with the fact that “The Vagina Monologues” raises awareness and money to stop violence against women, and more concerned that they do not raise awareness about him. If people like Eller are allowed to write unfounded columns such as this, there is no more merit in reading our school newspaper than in reading the “National Enquirer.”
Caitlin Biship
English sophomore