Vagina Monologues

Going into the Vagina Monologues, after seeing a video clip online, I was not very excited. I was expecting to see some women talk about their vaginas and what makes their vaginas angry and sad and so on. Well I was correct. It started out talking about these random stories where womens vaginas felt sad and gross and alone (kinda wierd). It went on to give an example of a 72 year old woman who talked about her lonely vagina and first orgasm. That was completely unnecessary. They definatly could have gotten the same point across in the show without that short story. But all in all, I did get that it was about protecting women from abuse and mutilation. The founder, Eve Ensler, started the vagina monologues with the intent of ending abuse against women around the world and specifically in Africa. Thus far, her organization and the show have done a lot to help this in many countries around the world. The show although mostly comedic at time did show the seriousness of the whole situation and gave out statistics and ways for people to help the cause if they can. I just wish the show better reflected how bad this problem was instead of just constantly making jokes about vaginas.