"Why do a play about vaginas?" is a common question to The Vagina Monologues. After watching the play years before I also asked this to myself. Is spreading the message of stopping violence against women and liberating women through a play based on a female private body part necessary? After thinking, I thought, yes, it is necessary. And appropriate. From silence on topics such as rape and sexual abuse to everyday avoidance of mentioning the body part and occurrences to it indicate the lack of preparation for us to confront the problems. Behaviour and speech reflect thoughts. If we cannot speak the word and talk about it, not only the word remains a taboo, but also issues concerned. In this play, vagina represents women, vagina speaks for women. The success of this play at different states and around the world is probably a result of a connection with the biological structure. For women, what we have. For men, what they may be intimate with. The body is universal. It speaks in all languages that people of different types and nations can relate to, despite specific cultural contexts of different stories. Reading the book, I understand more about their (author Eve Ensler, director Karen Obel and student and different parties who support V-Day and spread the words of TVM) intention to make a difference, to clear the ignorance of the subject. /femininity/
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