Parental Advisory
Mar. 6th, 2003 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaDoes anyone know anything about The Vagina Monologues ?
I'd been told, by people who I'd regard as reliable, that they were extremely funny. Last night, I accidentally found a performance on the telly. The 2 minutes I watched seemed to consist entirely of a woman explaining how she'd "reclaimed" the word cunt, and then repeatedly saying it in different silly voices.
Which the audience seemed to find hilarious. Which I found incomprehensible. It's not like I found it offensive, it just... wasn't funny.
[One Notional Kudos Point to anyone who realises why I suddenly remembered about this :) ]
I'd been told, by people who I'd regard as reliable, that they were extremely funny. Last night, I accidentally found a performance on the telly. The 2 minutes I watched seemed to consist entirely of a woman explaining how she'd "reclaimed" the word cunt, and then repeatedly saying it in different silly voices.
Which the audience seemed to find hilarious. Which I found incomprehensible. It's not like I found it offensive, it just... wasn't funny.
[One Notional Kudos Point to anyone who realises why I suddenly remembered about this :) ]
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Re: I actually know someone who's been in the Vagina Monologues...
Date: 2003-03-06 07:59 am (UTC)"!" because it's offensive? Apologies if so, my train of thought was led by the comparison with African Americans reclaiming "negro" and "nigger".
Re: I actually know someone who's been in the Vagina Monologues...
Date: 2003-03-06 08:21 am (UTC)Easy to misjudge the intent behind a single character, of course, but "! :-)" would have just been lame.