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| Please don't defend CTG by smearing women and displaying your own lack of knowledge | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 07:39 pm EDT 10/05/21 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 07:36 pm EDT 10/05/21 | |
| In reply to: What is the percentage of female playwrights - dramedy 07:17 pm EDT 10/05/21 | |
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| Well. That is a very reactionary response to the situation, and involves smearing women as bad writers, and also sharing your own ignorance. I didn't expect that from you. The list you link to features a number of British writers that might be unfamiliar to you, but it also includes 4 Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights! Are you really going to stand there and proudly say that you haven't seen plays by Caryl Churchill, Katori Hall, Jackie Siblies Drury, and Matryn Majok and make it their fault that you haven't heard of them?! But sure, let's indulge in this, shall we say lightly misogynistic argument for a moment, and let's agree that there is definitely not equal to 50% of the population female playwrights (which isn't true, there are many, many, many female playwrights and I would not be shocked if there are even more of them than men these days... but I don't know for sure, because I haven't done the study and neither have you). But let's just pretend that you're right, and say it's not 50 percent. Can we at least agree that woman are more than 12.5% of the playwrights in this country? Because CTG is producing 8 plays next season, and only one of them is by a cis-gender woman. Only one. One in eight, or 12.5%. That is indefensible using any form of logic. |
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| re: Please don't defend CTG by smearing women and displaying your own lack of knowledge | |
| Posted by: Thom915 08:21 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
| In reply to: Please don't defend CTG by smearing women and displaying your own lack of knowledge - Singapore/Fling 07:36 pm EDT 10/05/21 | |
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| Could we please include Dominique Morisseau in this list of playwrights? | |
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| Dominique Morisseau | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 10:21 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Please don't defend CTG by smearing women and displaying your own lack of knowledge - Thom915 08:21 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
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| Absolutely. I was just referencing the playwrights who were specifically mentioned in the linked article. | |
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| I didn’t smear women—that is your interpretation | |
| Posted by: dramedy 08:48 pm EDT 10/05/21 | |
| In reply to: Please don't defend CTG by smearing women and displaying your own lack of knowledge - Singapore/Fling 07:36 pm EDT 10/05/21 | |
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| I would expand but frankly you shut discussions down with your equally offensive rhetoric. | |
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| Eager to learn more | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 09:22 pm EDT 10/05/21 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 09:07 pm EDT 10/05/21 | |
| In reply to: I didn’t smear women—that is your interpretation - dramedy 08:48 pm EDT 10/05/21 | |
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| When you say that not many women write plays ("the percentage isn't very high") and not many of those have a body of work worth producing (you used the words "to select from", so you can quibble with my understanding of your intent, though many women playwrights certainly have many plays written), I'm not sure how else to interpret that other than a put down of female playwrights as being inferior to men. I'm open to having you explain it to us. | |
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