Class blog for SUNY Fredonia HIST/WOST 359, Meeting TR 3:30-4:50 p.m., Spring 2011. Taught by professor Jeffry J. Iovannone.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Vagina Monologues
I saw the monologues all three nights because I helped tear tickets and sell raffle tickets vag pops. I've seen the show for the past three years and I always think it has such an empowering effect on me every time. It includes so many different women's stories told in a bunch of different voices. I really like the spotlight monologues each year. It always goes to show that even in a modern society driven by improvement and efficiency, there is still so much that needs to be fixed in the world. Everyone who is involved with the monologues, including the audience, is working to fix those things. I think today women so often feel that they are more in competition with each other than anything else because of seeing shows like the Bad Girls Club on television and things like that. The monologues teach us that as women we need to support each other. The stories in the monologues come from women of all ethnicities and social and economic class, but the fact that they all have vaginas and a story behind their relationship with their vaginas binds them all together, making them allies in their common womanhood.
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