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VaGiiina, VaGiiiiina!!;)
Mar. 19th, 2004 02:24 pmOk, I'm way behind on this, but caught myself a miserable lil cold these last few days and just wasn't up to much.
So, last SUNDAY....(better stale than never as they say), my good friend singer/songwriter Maryann Leone was opening for a production of The Vagina Monologues a couple of towns over! Now, I'd never seen this, so I was pretty excited for the double whammy of M's singing and this performance. Brought my digital cam to snap pics of M's socks as she sang..hehe...I handed them all over to her so sorry you don't get to see. Actually, I think some are on her website now, so do check out!
Anyway, The Vagina Monologues (presented as part of V-Day celebration to stop the violence towards women)was intense, hysterical and moving. I laughed til I cried with the variations on moaning skit and I just balled over in horror and tears with all the too real tales of abuse, violence and shame.
This is SUCH a necessary act- I hope EVERYONE gets to see this. There really is such a debilitating taboo on the subject...which is at the root of so many problems in our society...And I was amazed at how refreshing the openess was, how NOVEL to me, how, dare I say it, Liberating. It's not a male-bashing skit. I think it would be great for all men to see as well, because it banished some common misconceptions that many men have about how women feel about their bodies. (The men in the audience said the very same thing afterwards).
SO...if you HAVEN'T seen it, check out vday.org and find out when/where you can catch it.
So, last SUNDAY....(better stale than never as they say), my good friend singer/songwriter Maryann Leone was opening for a production of The Vagina Monologues a couple of towns over! Now, I'd never seen this, so I was pretty excited for the double whammy of M's singing and this performance. Brought my digital cam to snap pics of M's socks as she sang..hehe...I handed them all over to her so sorry you don't get to see. Actually, I think some are on her website now, so do check out!
Anyway, The Vagina Monologues (presented as part of V-Day celebration to stop the violence towards women)was intense, hysterical and moving. I laughed til I cried with the variations on moaning skit and I just balled over in horror and tears with all the too real tales of abuse, violence and shame.
This is SUCH a necessary act- I hope EVERYONE gets to see this. There really is such a debilitating taboo on the subject...which is at the root of so many problems in our society...And I was amazed at how refreshing the openess was, how NOVEL to me, how, dare I say it, Liberating. It's not a male-bashing skit. I think it would be great for all men to see as well, because it banished some common misconceptions that many men have about how women feel about their bodies. (The men in the audience said the very same thing afterwards).
SO...if you HAVEN'T seen it, check out vday.org and find out when/where you can catch it.
