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After the Fringe Festival, Monday Manners covered a variety of audience faux pas surrounding preventable behavior. But there's an equally big problem when the audience members prevent themselves from behaviors that they should be engaging in.

will take place in Irvine Auditorium at 8PM. All proceeds will benefit Women Organized Against Rape, Philadelphia’s only rape crisis center.

. Then they did everything in their power to stop me from throwing things at the screen.

I spent my lunch break this Monday buying an umbrella at Macy’s. Before the employee helping me showed me where it was, she was stopped by a man who asked her if she had kids. "NO!" she yelled, "I’m a VIRGIN!" She then proceeded to show me a display of titanium umbrellas, explaining that she knew they’d hold up in severe weather, because her "spine is made of titanium, and it hasn’t given out during sex yet… virgin? HA!" I can’t say that when I asked her for help I expected to learn about the duress her spine experiences during sex, but if that little lesson meant assurance my umbrella will hold its own in the rain, then all right.

This video has absolutely nothing to do with Philadelphia. Absolutely nothing at all. But hey, it's a holiday, so you're probably not even reading us today, anyway! And in case you are... there are no words. (Bonus: if you're familiar with you might see where Diddy and Eve Ensler are totally on the same wavelength here.)

Well, for better or for worse, Valentine's Day is over, folks. But the celebration of V-Day is just beginning. V-Day was created as an outgrowth of Eve Ensler's famous Vagina Monologues, and it's part of the global movement to stop violence against women and girls. You can hit the V-Day website to figure out how you can help, or join in already existing local events.