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11 Whittier J. Child. & Fam. Advoc. 115 (2011-2012)
One Not-So-Dirty Word

handle is hein.journals/wjcfad11 and id is 117 raw text is: ONE NOT-SO-DIRTY WORD BY MICHAEL A. MOGILL' I had received requests to speak outside the law school many times during my career in academia, but never one like this. The invitation to become what I would later learn to be a Vagina Warrior came from my students themselves, as I was to be the only male in what I realized would be a highly provocative theatrical production. Moreover, I was being asked to give the introductory remarks to the performance, thus establishing the atmosphere for what some may view as a forum for radical artistic expression. Our Director of Student Services, who delivered the invitation, urged me to accept, as the students had uniformly expressed their desire that I do so, based on what she suggested was their respect and admiration for my perspectives. And so, truly flattered by this request and fully supportive of my students and the goals of the evening ahead, I agreed, quashing my own inner fears of what I would be able to add to advance this very worthy cause. Thus, there I nervously stood in front of the audience in the Shlechter Auditorium on the campus of Dickinson College. So it went.... *Professor of Law, The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University; B.S., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; J.D., Northeastern University School of Law; LL.M., Temple University of Law. The author wishes to dedicate this article to his students in appreciation for their remarks over the years which have inspired this commentary and to his children, in the hopes of an ever better world. The author also wishes to acknowledge that the use of the title is evoked by George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words, and to Sherry Miller and Lisa Woltz for preparing this manuscript. 115

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