They called it Cunt

3/7/08

By Catherine Story
Business Manager

The Lyndon State College Women’s Group is curious about vaginas.

“I call it cunt,” Vicki Litzinger said during her segment of The Vagina Monologues titled Reclaiming Cunt.

After playing with the word Litzinger coerced the audience into yelling cunt with her. The amusement and the passion were vibrant in the Alexander Twilight Theater.

More giggles were aroused when Kerri Sgarlata explained “The home of the moan.”

Playing the woman who loved to make vaginas happy Sgarlata demonstrated many different moaning moments, from the student moan, to the silent moan, to the surprise triple orgasm.

The Vagina monologues also discussed the difficulties of possessing a vagina.

The ode to Bosnian Refugees who were raped as a form of warfare brought silence to the auditorium.

A teary eyed Jennifer Harris presented the suffering of many women through the experiences of one during her segment titled My Vagina was My Village.

Sometimes humor can mix with valuable lessons.

Melissa Leonard’s portrayal of The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could told the story of a girl who had been sexually abused as a girl. Her mother was very secretive about her daughter’s vagina and refused to discuss it.

Leonard’s character then falls in love with a woman who loves vaginas. It is during this segment that Leonard’s character learns that her vagina may have been brutalized but it is still very beautiful and it is not meant to be a secret.

“I want to taste the fish,” Meg Monette said, “that’s why I ordered it.”

Monette showed the social anger of the vagina in her monologue discussing the desire to change the vagina and to stuff it up with what Monette describes as “a dry wad of f****g cotton.”

Another monologue that brought giggles to the crowd was the story of an eighty-year-old woman who had never had an orgasm.

“It took her over an hour because she was arthritic,” Donna Keely said.

The Vagina monologues are a collection of stories gathered through interviews with women about their vaginas. The goal of the production is to end violence against women and raise money and consciousness.