I've watched bits and clips of schools/theater groups reciting them but Amazon Prime finally put the whole thing on Amazon Instant Video to watch.
Part of me is pearl clutchy in that the vagina is discussed so much and so openly, because that isn't how it went down in my house growing up. Growing up, the vagina was for babies to enter the world and for your period - sex was shameful and it was a closed topic. I do think it is wonderful that Eve Ensler started this project and gives so much information about all different types of women, different backgrounds, different situations, the good, and the bad.
I'm torn between "omg, is she really saying all this?" and "a lot of young ladies should watch this and realize that they are strong women" and a little "I'm still not cool with the word c*nt" That was the worst segment for me to watch.
Post by pedanticwench on Jun 20, 2014 20:31:15 GMT -5
H and I watched this for the first time about a month ago and we both loved it.
The part about the Bosnian woman in rape camps made me sob. It was heart wrenching, but I feel like people need to be able to talk about horrors like that. I don't know. It was hard, hearing that.
Just googled, the piece was called My Vagina Was My Village.
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin. -- Catherynne M. Valente
I feel like the theater/college renditions of it leave out a lot of the important stuff. Just watching those, I didn't quite understand, but seeing Eve's production and her backgrounds on all the women made it make sense. I enjoyed seeing the women she interviewed as well.