The Vagina Monologues (second response)

The Vagina Monologue is probably the biggest successful drama in the theaters these days. It was first performed by Eve Ensler in 1996. As it became famous, it was performed by the stars. It has even been performed at the world famous Apollo Theater. This drama gets performed to raise money to help protect women against violence. V-Day is the organization, which is organized to protect women from rape, incest, mutilation, etc. by raising money from the help of The Vagina Monologue. I think V-Day has done a great job collecting money for helpless women’s. After reading the V-Voices from the Worldwide Network, I found out that these people have very deep thoughts about the violence against women and according to them V-Day organization is probably the best way to achieve the goal of world without violence. They are trying very hard do this from their hearts by spreading the message of stopping violence against women. Some people even thanked V-Day for changing their lives and by making them part of V-Day to help protect women. Some people even said that V-Day have given them so much strength, confidence, self respect, and made them able to reach their goals to their fullest potentials. After reading these thoughts, I think it’s definitely very important to raise awareness, money, and our voices against these violence’s. Even if we can’t do this, we should always be strong enough to protect ourselves in this world without any help.

 By reading this book, I got a lot out of it. Sure it was very uncomfortable book for me to read, but I think is a great book. It’s a book of awareness and self-knowing. I think that watching these stories being performed is more fun than just reading them. As I read through these stories, some of them were very shocking for me. For instance, Ensler wrote about how the vaginas feel like, smell like, and her husband likes to shave it and look it. I mean I never really thought that someone would really talk about it that openly. I think Ensler is being very straight forward and open about these things. At the same time, I think her purpose was to write all this in the book was to let women know that they shouldn’t hate their body parts. We are beautiful as we are and there is nothing wrong to talk about our body part openly. Overall, it was a good book to read and a unique way to learn about women body parts and the V-Day organization. In the future, I would definitely want to see stories being performed and help them raising some money.