Making Everyone A Fan Of The Vagina

“The Vagina Monologues” is a documentary/stand up comedy performance that gives men and women a chance to better understand the mystery and importance behind the female reproductive organs. Never before has anyone been willing to interview women and get their thoughts on this controversial subject. “The Vagina Monologues” not only gets women to talk about their vaginas, it gets us to understand why they didn’t want to before.

While getting women to finally come out and open up may seem a great thing, the whole performance is laden with moments pertaining to rape, child molestation, infidelity, and in depth conversations pertaining to rough sex and childbirth. While this may turn off many people, this documentary succeeds in accomplishing its most important goal, getting people educated on how women feel about themselves, and that is what makes it so intriguing.

“The Vagina Monologues” is separated into testimonials that are acted out by Eve Ensler, who during the past 20 years has made it her personal task to speak to as many woman about their vaginas. These testimonials are acted out in various ways. In “The Little Cuchy Snorcher That Could,” Ensler talks with a southern accent to portray the person she interviewed, who recollects her first lesbian experience and how much it totally changed her life, making her love her own body and the person she is.

In “He Liked To Look At It,” Ensler sounds like a 20-year-old straight out of a Starbucks in New York City describing a woman who met a man that had no great qualities, but did the greatest thing he could do for her, make her feel beautiful and special . While Ensler’s acting out of each testimonial is entertaining, it isn’t the reason why you would wanna watch this. It’s what’s underlying all of these testimonials that makes this worth watching, to get a better understanding of women and how they feel about their bodies.

Before each testimonial, there is a small introduction segment where Ensler tells her personal reasons for bringing all of these interviews to the public. We see in her dressing room a vagina friendly map, which shows where she’s been all across the country. “They really love vagina in Pittsburgh,” she says before one of her testimonials backstage. We also get to see all the different types of vagina type products that were given to her during her travels. This just reinstates all the hard work Ensler has put into this project, and just how dedicated she is.

If you don’t get anything out of the testimonials, the last one will surely make the show worth watching. There, Ensler describes an experience she had while watching a baby being born and then goes on to compare the vagina to the human heart in “I Was In The Room.” This makes up for all the whimsical screaming in “Reclaiming Cunt” and the horrid details of a rape victim in “My Vagina Was A Village.” “The Vagina Monologues” gets men and women to understand just how important the vagina is to a woman. “It’s capable of feeling pain and pleasure, it can give love to someone who desperately needs it, and it can be broken just like the heart,” Ensler says. Overall, she does a fantastic job of giving viewers a first hand look into the workings of the female mind and shows just how important the vagina is to both women and men.

While a few monologues may be a bit edgy and crude for the average viewer, it is apparent how hard Ensler has worked on this project in order to better educate the masses on female behavior. It’s witty, edgy, compassionate and sometimes quite funny. Best of all, it won’t try and force feed ideas down your throat like many other documentaries, but it will take you on a wild and though provoking ride you won’t soon forget.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14316 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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