[PHOTOS] Is Vagina Talk The Right Way To Promote Women's Rights?
Inspired by the Vagina Monologues, female students from the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) started a feminist movement that have stirred up a storm on Chinese social media.
By Mei Mei Chu — 13 Nov 2013, 12:45 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
Beijing Foreign Studies University Gender Activism Club raised a few eyebrows with its feminism campaign inspired by The Vagina Monologues
When 17 female students at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), one of China's most prestigious colleges, posted photographs of themselves holding up messages like "My Vagina Says: I Want Freedom," they probably didn't expect to cause such a stir on Chinese social media.
By telling stories of the vagina, the group aims to call for respect for the “second sex,” as well as raising women’s own self-awareness. The only problem? Chinese netizens thought that they went too far…and that these female students are ugly.
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The women posted the photos on Nov. 7 on Renren, an online community website popular with university students, to promote an upcoming campus performance of The Vagina Monologues, U.S. playwright Eve Ensler's controversial 1996 play.
My vagina says: You need to be invited to get in
Most netizens thought these girls have crossed a line. “This is so low. Don’ they have shame?” Another netizen 爱之123 added: “This is disgusting. Will these girls still have the ’face’ to live on?”. Netizen 爱琳只为你 explained why she has been annoyed: “I’m not sure about what they’ve been learning at school, but being open, free and international doesn’t mean making a big deal of their private parts.”
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My vagina says: She only listens to me!
The irony is that these negative reactions themselves prove exactly the necessity of more feminist calls in China. These girls clearly demonstrate that talking about sexuality and taking control of your sexual identity is nothing to be ashamed of and proudly show their faces. China needs feminism, and this is exactly the kind it needs.
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