My Angry Vagina by: Eve Ensler

One thing that I appreciate about the Vagina Monologues is that they say the things that women only wish they could say. Society has forced women to believe that everything going on "down there" has to be kept a secret but this book publicized it. She praised the vagina and put a face on it making it a more comfortable topic for women as well as everyone else to discuss.

My angry Vagina was about all the horrible things that happen to vagina's that was never explored or talked about. Eve Ensler talks about things such as putting a thicke wad of cottom inside the vagina or having the doctor put on these big gloves and stick things inside the vagina and tell the woman to "relax the vagina". I personally never felt comfortable enough to talk about these things with anyone so reading this made me feel a little embaressed for a second and then as it went on I started feeling a little comfortable. I was raised to believe that certain subjects such as what goes on down there should be kept private but Ensler wrote about it for everyone to read. The language she uses is similar to what I say when I have certain issues with the vagina. Sometimes I wish I could say half of the things she says about how some things we go through are uncomfortable or how she wishes that things would change in order to work with tenderness of the vagina. I felt like she just came out and said everything I wanted to say for me. I felt as if she gave a face, a name, a personality, to my vagina as if she humanized it and made it personal.