Mike Adams’ Viagra Monologues
University of North Carolina-Wilmington associate professor Mike Adams wrote one of the most amusing looks at The Vagina Monologues in July. In his op-ed, The Viagra Monologues, he describes his experiencing reading the feminist play.
Adams uses humor to puncture much of The Vagina Monologues,
In the very first chapter of TVM, author Eve Ensler tells the reader that she wrote the controversial play because she ?was worried about what we think about vaginas . . .? and because she ?was worried about (her) own vagina. It needed a context of other vaginas-a community, a culture of vaginas.? I suppose it takes a village to raise a vagina.
But his conclusion about one of the more bizarre (and that’s saying a lot for this play) parts of The Vagina Monologues really drives home mindset of the people who wrote, produce and laud this play,
Perhaps the highlight (or lowlight) of TVM is an interview with a six-year-old girl, which asks (among others) the following questions: ?If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?? ?If it could speak, what would it say??, and ?What does your vagina smell like?? Of course I wondered why Ensler would ask these questions of a six-year-old girl. Maybe she got the idea from Michael Jackson. Well, maybe not.
After nearly 120 pages of this obscenity, the author does ponder the possible ill effects of her research by asking whether ?talking about vaginas ruin(s) the mystery.? But then she dismisses that conclusion as ?another myth that keeps vaginas in the dark, keeps them unknowing and unsatisfied.? Finally she admits, ?I realize I don?t know what?s appropriate. I don?t even know what that word means. Who decides??
Of course, many people would like to see TVM banned from college campuses. I disagree with that approach. Instead, I?m going to write my own play called The Viagra Monologues. That way, I won?t be accused of censoring campus feminists. And I won?t have to interview six-year-old boys.
Source:
The Viagra Monologues. Mike S. Adams, TownHall.Com, July 24, 2003.
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