'Françaises, Français': Why the French language need not be so sexist

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54. You've touched on something I loathe

There are productions - good productions! - that pull off the gender neutral thing. Great actors who tap into the cathartic, tragic mess of a good play.

And then there are those productions who rest solely on the publicity of it all. And they are almost always universally terrible. The direction, the acting, the interpretation. It's all, "Look at us! We're breaking boundaries!" Are you though? Because it was actually done ten years ago in a 90 person theater in Chicago my boyfriend at the time made me go see because his best girlfriend was playing Rosencratz. They just didn't get a New York Times article about the whole thing.

Art can and should stand on its own. Politics do not make good art by default. But art can make good politics if you put the thought and effort into it.

But, no. Here's this shitty production "breaking boundaries" and we all have to pretend we like it or else we're some kind of -ist.

There's this segment of people who stand on their identity - and their identity alone - as a substitute for talent, creativity, relevance, and contribution.

Drives me wild.