A very good documentary

I admire Eve Ensler very much and consider her one of the most important feminists in the world. Last night, I saw a documentary on the preparation of her transgendered version of The Vagina Monologues. Beautiful Daughters, directed and produced by Josh Aronson and Ariel Orr Jordan, introduces us to the women who performed the groundbreaking script in West Hollywood in 2004. It is tragic, funny and memorable.

The saddest part, for me, was hearing one of the women describe how her partner was beaten to death in his sleep with baseball bats when his "friends" discovered the history of his girlfriend's sexual identity. Another woman said that what threatens men is "the feminine." I believe she is absolutely correct. If one man could have a woman lurking inside him, perhaps all men could, and what could be worse than finding out even some small part of you is a woman?