Vagina Monologues

I had heard of the Vagina Monologues before I walked into Ida Green Thursday night. I had no idea exactly what it was about or how it would be played out. What I did know is that women loved it and I expected that the reason for this was because they could relate to, what I thought this play would be, a comedic view of life as a woman from a woman’s view. In class we discussed the importance of having an expectation before going into the play in order to avoid feeling like you wasted your time. But honestly, I really had no idea what to expect. I had seen a Family Guy skit making fun of the play where it was a pair of legs and the vagina was a mouth. They portrayed it as if it was a stand-up comedy routine. Therefore, with that in mind, I was somewhat surprised to walk in and see two rows of chairs with about twenty women seated in them. Throughout the play, each woman would walk up and read a monologue about an experience or a thought. Some were funny and others serious. There was one monologue where everyone started yelling cunt over and over. Another monologue that stuck out was an angry telling of gynecologist visits. Most of these monologues probably had a different meaning for the audience depending on whether you were male or female. There were some subjects that just don’t mean the same if you don’t know what it is like to be a woman; and I’m not just talking about physically. Men and women emotionally behave differently and it would be hard for me to fully wrap my mind around some of the topics discussed because I honestly have no idea, and I don’t mean to sound weird, what it is like to live in this world as a woman. But overall, I got an interesting and most of the time comical look at women and their view of being a woman in this world.