With the New York Times Editorial Board declaring that the debate over gay marriage should be ended, once and for all, the Overton Window shifts leftward once again. The real debate we should be having: Is “The Vagina Monologues” transphobic?

Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” was a 1996 Off-Broadway play mounted to deal with the crisis of society not paying enough attention to vaginas. It soon became an annual tradition wherever theater is subsidized by taxpayers or dads’ tuition checks, such as Mt. Holyoke College.

Personally, I was under the impression that Larry Flynt was doing all that anyone could ask to shine the cultural spotlight on the vagina. Further, my recollection of reading a quite educational Ms. Magazine article around 1973 was that feminists such as Shere Hite used to try to direct attention to a more overlooked part of the female anatomy, one who name I’ve unfortunately forgotten during all the “Vagina Monologues” hoopla. All I can remember is that it rhymes with Dolores.

But the triumph of The Vagina Monologues was so 1990s. The Overton Window moves on (but only in one direction). As I reported in Taki’s in October, old-school feminists at the Seven Sisters have been caught flat-footed by World War T.

Campus Reform claims:

All-women’s college cancels ‘Vagina Monologues’ because it’s not feminist enough Yvonne Dean-Bailey Mount Holyoke College, an all-women’s school, announced in a campus-wide email that the Theatre Board has cancelled its annual production of the “Vagina Monologues.” The board has decided to retire the feminist classic as it is not “inclusive” enough to those who identify as women but do not have vaginas. The school recently decided to admit male students who identify as women.

First, I haven’t seen this email so I don’t know the details. Second, to add some perspective, this is some kind of student organization, not an official part of the administration. Yet, I don’t see much evidence these days of a generational split in ideology between the administrations and student activists. Students just act out what the grown-ups imply for them.

The old school feminist website Gender Identity Watch, which is just about the only organization fighting back in World War T, laments:

It’s sad that conservative media does a better job of reporting the destruction of women’s rights through transgenderism than so-called “liberal” media.

Gender Identity Watch includes this screenshot, presumably from a Mt. Holyoke source:

But when you stop and think about it, this (i.e. whatever it is you are upset about) must be the fault of cisgendered straight white wealthy men. On that, all men, women, and whatevers of goodwill and good breeding can agree.