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Ensler is slammed by one critic for writing a monologue about a black child, which of course plays to racist stereotypes and is secretly an implication that black men like to rape white women; the same critic also chides her for failing to say very loudly that historically most rapists in the US have.
2 Oct Using the platform the success of The Vagina Monologues has afforded her, Ensler has spent the past two decades campaigning hard against rape and Ensler's been met with criticism and boycotts—in , all-women's liberal arts school Mount Holyoke College discontinued its annual performances of.
Critics of the Vagina Monologues must acknowledge its transformative powers
Description:But the Monologues have also garnered criticism from feminists. He would likely find himself on the local sex offender registry. There is also criticism of The Vagina Monologues about its conflation of vaginas as women, more specifically for the message of the play that women are their vaginas, as Susan E. For example, audiences openly wept at one monologue about the rape of a Bosnian woman by soldiers. Taking pictures post-performance, we both flashed "V" signs with our fingers. As a professional theatre actor for more than 35 years, and artistic director of a theatre company in the Philippines for more than 20 years I have come across many plays during my career, but I have never experienced this kind of transformation. Due to the limitations of The Vagina Monologues, several women have created alternate spaces to speak openly about violence, sexuality, and race.
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