After starting to read The Vagina Monologues, I find Ensler to be a very humorous writer, whether hat is her intent or not, but the words she uses to descried vaginas is what the reader understands to be their shared understanding of vaginas.
As Ensler writes, she strives to make the women she interviews understand and revisit the wonderful, life-producing organ between their legs. She, first, wants to make the world except a new understanding of the word “vagina” because she feels that right now, the word is associated with darkness and a sense of privacy and she wishes that the word had an association with such things as part or your soul, the truest voice of a woman or the life if the party. This is what I conceived to be the most important message thus far because by shunning a woman’s own vagina, she is shutting herself out one of her most valued treasures.
I got quite the laugh immediately after I read the section that asked woman how their vaginas would respond in two words about what they would wear. It was interesting because I can imagine that the responses do and do not match up to the appearances of the women answering Ensler’s questions. The responses received be Ensler show that a woman’s vagina can influence her personality, if it does not have its own secret personality separate from the body it belongs to. Also by asking these questions and releasing them to the world, it begins to condition those who read or see her work with the thought and idea that every woman has a vagina and that no one should be shy or timid when speaking about their vagina, or just about vaginas in general. This directly correlates to her idea of giving the vagina clothes to wear, trying to give life to the thing between women’s legs.
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