I completely understand your point, however, have you seen that particular monologue in question?
To listen to it, the rape debate seems comes from external people, the person whose story that particular monologue came from clearly didn't see or think of the experience as rape.
If, as the 'victim' you do not believe/think what you experienced, enjoyed and participated in was rape then it is a very different to those who are forced into having sex or performing sexual acts against their will.
The monologue, my vagina was my village is a very touching story of rape camps and is handled in such a way that it depicts the atrocious act of rape almost poetically.
I dont think the any part of the VM undermines rape or the victims or detracts from the struggle anyone, regardless of sexuality, faces after such a brutal act.
"Oh Buffy, you really need to have every square inch of your ass kicked!" -Dark Willow
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blackat16
16 years ago
Wow. You sure said it.
That monologue is a testimonial, not an advocacy for statutory rape or homosexual rape or acquaintance rape or anything like that. Eve Ensler isn't saying that all those things are "good rape." A girl is saying that an experience she went through, which some might label rape, was good for her.
In fact, the statement, "If it was rape, it was good rape," should really be taken ironically. If it was good, then it wasn't rape. The narrator is sarcastically mocking those who would call it rape in the first place.
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