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re: a woman playing a man's pet dog, in 2015?

Posted by:	Delvino 07:04 pm EDT 10/28/15
In reply to:	a woman playing a man's pet dog, in 2015? - Chazwaza 05:57 pm EDT 10/28/15

To the issue you raise, which I support, I'm in the minority, I get what Isherwood responded to. It has nothing to do with being overly sensitive (or a "cat" person, as he quipped). The premise, for my sensibilities, is cloying, and allows the middle age man losing his mind over a chick to become a middle age man losing his mind over a young bitch, literally. It still has an slightly icky horniess to it, sorry, and that's what makes all the ass scratching and crotch sniffing so obvious and tedious to me. It has some clever lines. Yes, it also reminds people of the way dogs are fawned over and humanized. Still, it's impossible for the play not to conjure fantasy, and if it were, say, a cute male dog in skimpy togs that crawled over Broderick and wet the floor, how would we respond? Isn't the intended heterosexual appeal the very gendered response of Broderick's character? (Yet do people really seize the gender of their dogs as even a partial basis for their affection? I haven't found that true.) It's how I felt at MTC when I saw it with his cute, hot wife, who played the titular character the first time. People truly love it. They giggle, they guffaw. They awwww. I didn't, and if others disagree, I certainly take your point.

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