Honky Tonk Angels' Vagina Monologue

Last year I was lucky enough to see the play "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler who also wrote the book by the same name. The play is based on interviews about vaginas that she conducted with over 200 women.

What is all this about? You ask. It is about empowering women by discussing the taboo - your vagina. We don't discuss them - we call them all sorts of nick names - it becomes a secret, forbidden topic which only perpetuates that there must be something bad about vaginas - that we must be bad - cause after all only women have vaginas. Some of her questions were funny, "If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?" But inevitably the talking about vaginas led to stories of rape, incest and abuse of every nature. I say inevitably because the abuse is so pervasive in our culture. She writes, "Slowly it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women - that the desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did not correct it, be the end of us all...when you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet. You force what is meant to be open, trusting, nurturing, creative, and alive to be bent, infertile, and broken."

Eve Ensler began a project called V Day to help raise money to stop the abuse. Go to www.vday.org to learn more.

I thought her idea of getting what is ‘taboo' - our vaginas - out in the open - to be very empowering and I though as an exercise in empowerment I would invite some of my female friends to answer some Vagina Monologue questions that I made up. On Feb. 10th, 2002, I had a Vagina Monologue Party. There were about a dozen of us who sat in my living room and went around the circle saying our answers aloud to each question and before moving on to the next question we would all shout "VAGINA!". We laughed, we nodded in understanding, we hesitated, we opened up, and we came to a place of feeling happy to be women and to be together sharing our special bond of womanhood. It was an insightful experience for each of us. Everyone participated at their comfort level, some were entirely comfortable talking about their vaginas and others were a little shy and still others were very hesitant to engage in the monologue. I've talked to several of my friends in the past few days about their thoughts on our Vagina Party and the feedback has been overwhelming in agreement that it was hilarious fun and heart-warmingly inspiring. We will continue this Honky Tonk Angels' Vagina Monologue via the Internet. If you would like to answer the questions and have your answers listed with all the others - then follow the links on this page to view the questions and to send an email with your answers (nobody's identity will be divulged!).

Thanks to all my friends who were courageous and sometimes outrageous in talking about their feelings about their vaginas and their unique femaleness - I love you all!

 

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