Today I class we watched a portion of the play
The Vagina Monologues. My personal response to it includes a few mixed feelings. I think that it is great for women to talk frankly about their bodies and their personal experiences. Even in our modern society, it is not very socially acceptable for such topics to be discussed. I don’t see any reason for this because it is something that all women go through and many do not have an outlet to express their concerns or questions because of social expectations on them to deal with it on their own. However, I am not sure if the play directly addressed this issue. The position they took seemed to poke fun at a woman’s desire to share her feelings about her body’s changes. Though it made the play a joy to watch, the outcome was that rather than being taken seriously, women were being ridiculed for sharing. You could see this in the reaction of the audience. The more specific the actress was about her experience, the bigger the laugh received from the audience. I think the main reason for this was the shock factor, because the audience was not accustomed to hearing such things. I think that if the play had approached the subject differently, it could have had really changed the perspective that the audience had on the issue.
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