Say it!
I was trying to look for the script of the Vagina Monologue: Say it! For the Comfort Women by Eve Ensler, which is about sexual violence among women.
We have performed this monologue during the 5th Anniversary of the company. Though, it was my first time to perform a monologue and was my first time also to encounter such a heavy story. At first, I couldn't believe that this happened long ago during the Japanese war, I guess. Eve Ensler has plenty of vagina monologues which is of course relates to vagina, but the piece that she wrote is that a vagina is a tool for female empowerment. Since, I couldn't find the script, here's the video performed by the student of Hampshire College.
The monologue brought sadness to my heart. I never thought that this monologue was a heavy one. I almost cried when I first read it. Of course, I didn't want to cry in-front of my colleagues that time, hehe. It was heavy for me, violence against women.We women should remember and celebrate VDAY, until the violence stops.
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This is very powerful and so sad, very heavy. I understand how you could have felt reading it the first time. Thank you for sharing for we ought to remember these women who suffer and the ones who are still suffering, abused and treated like nothing.
ReplyDeleteI might link it to my blog if you are ok with it. Stay well Chacha.
This has been a real issue for those comfort women who have been fighting for their rights since the Japanese time..this is actually not only their fight but also for all of us women now..we should never tolerate anyone to abuse us..every women should learn to fight for their rights..not to give anyone a chance to hurt or trample on us..I hope the Japanese government will listen finally to their cry..it has already been decades these women are asking for justice..thank you for sharing sissy ;)
ReplyDelete@MarieHarmony: Surely Marie, you can place the link on your blog, in that way many women would be aware too. Thank you so much for the thoughts.
ReplyDelete@Sie: Hi pretty sissy, many women now are afraid of doing something right for themselves. I hope they would find that courage to stand up now. I was thinking about it too, I guess the Japanese heard their cry. I was just sad about those women, they've been through a lot, it was traumatic experience that they will carry throughout their life.
SAY IT
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Our stories only exist inside our heads
Inside our ravaged bodies
Inside a time and space of war
And emptiness
There is no paper trail
Nothing official on the books
Only conscience
Only this.
What we were promised:
That I would save my father if I went with them
That I would find a job That I would serve the country
That they would kill me if I didnít go
That it was better there
What we found:
No mountains
No trees
No water
Yellow sand
A desert
A warehouse full of tears
Thousands of worried girls
My braid cut against my will
No time to wear panties
What we were forced to do:
Change our names
Wear one piece dresses with
A button that opened easily
50 Japanese soldiers a day
Sometimes there would be a ship of them
Strange barbaric things
Do it even when we bleed
Do it young before we started bleeding
There were so many
Some wouldnít take off their clothes
Just took out their penis
So many men I couldnít walk
I couldnít stretch my legs
I couldnít bend
I couldnít .
What they did to us over and over:
Cursed
Spanked
Twisted
Tore bloody inside out
Sterilized
Drugged
Slapped
Punched
What we saw:
A girl drinking chemicals in the bathroom
A girl killed by a bomb
A girl beaten with a rifle over and over
A girl running head first into a wall
A girlís malnourished body dumped in the river
To drown.
What we werenít allowed to do:
Wash ourselves Move around
Go to the doctor
Use a condom
Run away
Keep my baby
Ask him to stop.
What we caught:
Malaria
Syphilis
Gonorrhea
Stillbirths
Tuberculosis
Heart disease
Nervous breakdowns
Hypochondria
What we were fed:
Rice
Miso soup
Turnip pickle
Rice
Miso Soup
Turnip Pickle
Rice Rice Rice
What we became:
Ruined
Tools
Infertile
Holes
Bloody
Meat
Exiled
Silenced
Alone
What we were left with:
Nothing
A shocked father who never recovered
And died.
No wages
Scars
Hatred of Men
No children
No house
A space where a uterus once was
Booze
Smoking
Guilt
Shame What we got called:
Ianfu-Comfort Women
Shugyofu-Women Of Indecent Occupation
What we felt:
My chest still trembles
What got taken:
The springtime
My life
What we are:
74
79
84
93
Blind
Slow
Ready
Outside the Japanese Embassy every Wednesday
No longer afraid
What we want:
Now soon
Before weíre gone
And our stories leave this world,
Leave our heads
Japanese government
Say it
Please.
We are sorry, Comfort Women
Say it to me
We are sorry to me
We are sorry to me
To me
To me
To me
Say it.
Say sorry
Say we are sorry
Say Me
See Me
Say it
Sorry.
[Based on The Testimonies of The Comfort Women]