Punchline or Prejudice?
Harry Duke’s Dec. 25 “2024’s Top Torn Tix, SoCo’s best/interesting theater of the year” included POTUS, etc. “Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive,” a “feminist farce” (which he referred to as “pretty darn funny”) that undisguisedly discriminates against men as all cast members are female as are both the playwright and director.
This misandrist and blatantly sexist play promotes anger and resentment toward men. Would you endorse a theater production entitled “VPOTUS, etc. Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Men Trying To Keep Her Alive,” that portrayed a female VPOTUS as a buffoon and only employed male actors, writers and directors?
And the script is not kind to women either. Laura Foti Cohen of The Larchmont Buzz wrote, “POTUS is a brutal reminder that even women can make women look bad…Despite being in positions of power, the women are simpering and foolish, morally bereft and addled, immature and flailing. They are quick to anger and violence. Their first reaction to trouble is to cover their own butts.
“They don’t know enough to check for a pulse to see if someone is alive. One is encouraged—and eagerly agrees—to perform oral sex to solve problems…virtually every character is herself a dumbass, or a milquetoast, a deceived sad sack, or an amoral creep. Rather than trying to keep their leader alive, none seem sorry at the idea of his potential death at their hands,” Foti Cohen continued.
Oh, and I see that you employ the director of the play at the Pacific Sun as a freelancer.
Talk about “group think.”
Joe Manthey
Petaluma
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