My opinion is that if you like seeing it with friends, you like it. I would have disliked it under any circumstances, though not the idea "vagina monologue" (anything can be a subject of interesting thought, if the thinker has interesting thoughts), just this script and this performer. You know I mentioned that a friend and I had a fantasy of doing interviews with men and creating a parallel Penis monologue? That friend did a review for a British literary review, I think its name is Raritan, of the big Vagina Monologue performance in New York at which Oprah, Jane Fonda, I think Mrs. Giuliani, and other 'stars' appeared all decked out in red dresses and sequins and did readings about vaginas and how oppressed they all have been vagina-wise. My friend left early and titled the piece Life Styles of Rich and Famous Vaginas.
I don't know whether the low point was the Bosnia/Kosovo rapes being turned into shit or the complaints about tampons not being lubricated.
I really do think it's about whether it resonates with one or doesn't, rather than with whom one sees it. One can only speak for oneself, I know. In my case, it made me want to renounce my vaginal citizenship, not bond.
I can't think of single notion or insight that wasn't entirely penetrated, you should pardon the expression, in the first fifteen minutes of the women's "consciousness raising" movement.
To me it was middle class women looking hard for their place in the Victimhood sun. And trying to seize it by elucidating the obvious and the politically correct.
I didn't see the first half hour so maybe i missed something good. Like, what was the Bob theme about? Who is Bob, can someone tell me, I'm curious. I got the impression that he was a male getting credit for really liking vaginas, but surely not. Surely not.
I wonder whether if the performer had been a different person I might have had a less negative response. No, not if she wrote the script.
It would be interesting to examine the actual content and implication of the message/s offered. I'm up for discussing any proposition offered by the script. |
