Ensler’s VDay.org e-mail is announcing the tour of her “The Good Body” play. Ensler’s review of Ensler’s work reminds me of “The Simpsons” sign gag outside a movie theater — “Siskel & Ebert: The Movie (‘Two thumbs up! — Siskel & Ebert”): “When Eve takes the stage, she doesn’t just perform a play…she causes a sensation. In THE GOOD BODY she takes an inside look at the outside, exploring the cultures of beauty, food and desire through the eyes of women around the world. This provocative, hilarious, and profoundly moving show promises to be no less extraordinary than Eve’s previous triumph, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, which inspired a worldwide revolution.”
Ensler also spices her ad with more of her trademark immoral equivalence rhetoric, where she strains to portray the situation for women in America as just as bad as it is for women behind oppressive regimes:
“With THE GOOD BODY, Eve turns her unique eye to the rest of the female form. Whether undergoing botox injections or living beneath burkhas, women of all cultures and backgrounds feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in.”
Of course, Ensler’s immoral equivalency is, despite her use of “feel compelled,” a joke. Women aren’t “compelled” by the brunt of a gun or the threat of rape and dismemberment to inject themselves with botox. Botox injection is a choice that, in fact, few women percentagewise in America actually make.
One could just as [in]accurately state,
Whether [paying to hear “talking” vaginas] or living beneath burkhas, women of all cultures and backgrounds feel compelled to [behave in strange ways] in order to fit in…