The Vagina Monologues

Posted on 20 August 2018 by Eve Ensler

I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologuesAt first women were reluctant to talk They were a little shy But once they got going, you couldn t stop them Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas They get very excited, mainly because no one s ever asked them before. Download The Vagina Monologues – kino-fada.fr My vagina is a shell, a round pink tender shell, opening and closing, closing and opening My vagina is a flower, an eccentric tulip, the center acute and deep, the scent delicate, the petals gentle but sturdy. No it isn t It isn t a flower, it isn t a tulip, it isn t a shell or a piece of coral or an exotic orchid It s a tract of epithelial tissue, just like everyone else s.Don t get me wrong, vaginas are lovely I m a massive fan but these monologues represent the sort of facile, pseudo My vagina is a shell, a round pink tender shell, opening and closing, closing and opening My vagina is a flower, an eccentric tulip, the center acute and deep, the scent delicate, the petals gentle but sturdy. No it isn t It isn t a flower, it isn t a tulip, it isn t a shell or a piece of coral or an exotic orchid It s a tract of epithelial tissue, just like everyone else s.Don t get me wrong, vaginas are lovely I m a massive fan but these monologues represent the...I bet you re worried I was worried I was worried about vaginas I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and evenworried that we don t think about them To be honest, I was worried as well I didn t want to think about vaginas I still don t want to think about vaginas simply because I ve got the gay, you know But it is important that we do.Thinking, reading, talking about vaginas in a feminist way, that s what I m here for We use the word pe...It s disturbingly tempting to give this book a high rating just so everyone knows that I m a feminist which I am and that I m comfortable talking about sex you mean coitus And I think Ensler depends on that tendency Because here s the thing VM s politics may be admirable, but as theatre it s really quite bad Also, Ensler is a sel...Thank you, Secret Santa 5 It May Not Be Perfect, but it s a start StarsI may not have grown up in a down there age, but I most definitely grew up in a down there house I don t remember ever having open dialogue with my mother about vaginas growing up, not once Or maybe once, actually, when we discussed menstruation This sign of womanhood that brought about nightmares of waking up in puddles of blood that could be hidden with scraps of material bunched around your underwear making you w Thank you, Secret Santa 5 It May Not Be Perfect, but it s a start StarsI may not have grown up in a down there age, but I most definitely grew up in a down there house I don t remember ever having open dialogue with my mother about vaginas growing up, not once Or maybe once, actually, when we discussed menstruation This sign of womanhood that brought about nightmares of waking up in puddles of blood that could be hidden with scraps of material bunched around your underwear making you waddle like a duck or awkward looking fingers of cotton wrapped in plastic to look like candy So yeah, not all that much sex ed at home And the watered down sterilization of sex at school was littleilluminating It would be an act of violence that initiated my self discovery as a card carrying member of the vag...LOVE Wish this was longer.I don t really see the need for the stances of overwhelming crassness many of the reviews take against this book here on the GR Is Ensler s collection of performance pieces the final word on feminist ideology No, not at all But is it a sincere work that approaches with humor and gravity the notion that especially men and especially women should view the female body outside of the bullshit male centric, patriarchal perception that many people seem utterly oblivious to their own culpability in I don t really see the need for the stances of overwhelming crassness many of the reviews take against this book here on the GR Is Ensler s collection of performance pieces the final word on feminist ideology No, not at all But is it a sincere work that approaches with humor and gravity the notion that especially men and especially women should view the female body outside of the b...I don t understand a lot of the reviews on here Especially the one star ones First of all, over the vagina vulva debate, Ensler addresses that almost first thing She purposefully chose thehideous word to make people uncomfortable and eventually hopefully comfortable with the subject matter The low goodreads reviews make me think those people didn t actually read the play Maybe they just saw a sub par production that didn t have all the pieces Fine Forgivable.Second, people are s I don t understand a lot of the reviews on here Especially the one star ones First of all, over the vagina vulva debate, Ensler addresses that almost first thing She purposefully chose thehideous word to make people uncomfortable and eventually hopefully comfortable with the subject matter The low goodreads reviews make me think those people didn t actually read ...There s a lot to critique about this but I really don t feel like getting into it I will say this, though Eve Ensler doesn t know what a vagina is If you re unclear a vagina is the passage leading from the uterus to the vulva in certain female mammals Everyone in this play says vagina when they really usually mean vulva I m not being oddly specific, they are completely different parts of the anat...While I don t necessarily disagree with Ensler s thesis, or the help the project has provided to various women s charities, the whole thing, as a literary or dramatic work, is very problematic Anythinghonest than a fawning critique reveals how shallow the whole thing is there s hypocrisy, repetitive symbolism and metaphors, a heaping of that empty sort of communal feminism that makes everyone feel good but doesn t ac... I did not see my vagina as my primary resource, a place of sustenance, humor and creativity. You know, I don t see it that way, either I thought the source of all that was my brain.I must not have been abused enough as a girl, because I always feel like vagina centric art projects like this reduce me to a piece of anatomy just as much as does the alleged male fantasy of big boobs and miles of leg.Which is not to say that there weren t aren t some seriously screwed up ideas about female reprodu I did not see my vagina as my primary resource, a place of sustenance, humor and creativity. You know, I don t see it that way, either I thought the source of all that was my brain.I must not have been abused enough as a girl, because I always f...

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20 August 2018

Eve Ensler