After reading I am an Emotional Creature I have to admit that I was pretty let down. After reading the Vagina Monologues by Ensler, I kind of expected more from her. This book was a far cry from its predecessor, and while I can appreciate that they aren’t meant to be the same, I feel as if Ensler fell flat here.
One of my first issues with Emotional Creature is that it seemed rather contrived. You could tell that she was trying to promote self confidence, safe sex and abstinence, and being emotional, but the way that she tried to put it forth through the text came across to me as trying too hard.
Another big issue for me was how it was a monologue-poem hybrid. The flow of the different stories was off for me, and I had a hard time getting images of what was going on throughout the different passages. An example would be in the ‘Moving towards the Hoop’ story. It was really chaotic, and I think it was because she was trying to portray the girl’s inner monologue as chaotic, but the execution left something to be desired.
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