The play was interesting, often funny, and to be truthful often exasperating. In many ways it seems a bit, well, sexist.
Let me explain. Here is an excerpt from the script:
HEIDI:
What does it mean if this document offers no protections again violence of men? Sorry, I don’t
mean to— I really have no desire to vilify men. I love men. I do, I fucking love you. I’m the
daughter of a father! But the facts are extreme. Here’s one statistic, just one: This century, the
21st century, more American women have been killed by their male partners than Americans
have died in in the war on terror — including 9/11. That is not the number of women who have
been killed in this country; that is only the number of women who have been killed by the men
who supposedly love them.
That’s such a staggering figure that I just kind of have to… forget it to get through the day.
Except, I think you can’t forget it about. Even if you don’t know the statistics, I think you can
feel the truth of that underneath everything… humming. (Unsure) Right?
What is wrong with this? Nothing technically. But if she had mentioned that 78.7% of homicide victims are men, it would put those statistics in a different light.
Even worse, throughout the play I could not help thinking that you substituted "white" for "women: and "black" for "men" the statistics would not only hold but be even more compelling. Yet, if you did the whole play would be, rightly, decried as racist.
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