| Thank you; we can't have it both ways about Emory, can we? | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 07:27 am EDT 06/15/18 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:20 am EDT 06/15/18 | |
| In reply to: re: BOYS IN THE BAND tonight - EveryLittleChore 03:00 am EDT 06/15/18 | |
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| Emory is a lightning rod. To some, a caricature. Everything they hope never to be, or be subjected to. See, know, date. I appreciate Harvey Fierstein's honest comments in The Celluloid Closet: "I liked the sissy ... I am a sissy." Emory is shamed by the other characters. Perhaps that shame today should register louder and more strikingly, in a culture that's finally appropriately worried about bullying male children targeted for their queerness, mocked and assaulted for the very traits Emory's derided for. We work hard, now, to offer the Emorys a safer world. Does no one see that irony? The cruelest? He's the kid not picked for the team. The boy who preferred the company of girls. He grows up, he has what Toni Morrison called hard-won adulthood. To me, he has something that cannot be denied: authenticity |
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