No f***ing shit

Hey, I’m with you brother. At least you’re recognizing the patriarchy is a fucked up beast of a machine. If we let it take over women and POC, gay white men are next. We need to be allies all the way, even when it stings knowing we’re still in a place of privilege.

People think women are uninteresting. Look at how amazed everyone is that a superhero movie about a woman in 2017 is actually good and making money.

Patriarchy. Women were shut out from making money, and men wrote plays/musicals that were predominantly about men.

Fascinating. I studied humanities and remember noticing in college that while all my classmates were women, all my professors were men...

This. For the last...thousand years or so, white men have written the plays. And yes, while women and/or minorities have been in a handful (or gasp) even been the lead in some, most of them revolve around white men because they’ve had a pretty good head start on us when it comes to writing them. I work in theatre in…

And the musicals, too. In the history of the Tony’s it wasn’t until 2015's Fun Home that a female composer and lyricist team won Best Original Score.

I agree; we are not there yet. It is just quite easy for us to wield the vile forces of patriarchy. Le sigh, I’m feeling deep self loathing today so I’m not really feeling glass half full.

It’s a lot of things. “We want to appeal to a broad audience”=cast men. Also, historically playwriting, like other literature, has been the domain of men with material done by women seen as niche . Less and less true, but hell, revivals with rare exception are always a sure bets. And with professional productions more…

Here’s the thing: There are a lot of people who think that, because humanities and arts classes attract more female students at the high school and college levels, women are highly represented in the humanities and arts at the professional level. When the fact is, at the professional level, there’s often less…

Oh stop being such a drama queen.

Because men are writing the plays that get produced. :/

So just more of the same?

I know the history of theater, but it always struck me as weird how so many plays and musicals have majority male roles. At least when I was in theater, there seemed to be a lot more women involved. I know that probably is true in non-professional theater, but there just always seemed to be more of us. So why no…

I still feel bad that Tammy Faye Bakker died before she got to try the modern wonder that is Latisse. I bet she would have spread that shit on sandwiches.

FTC regulates anything that isn’t intended to treat, cure, or prevent disease. FDA only steps in when a consumer or consumer whatchdog steps in and says “This product is actively causing harm”, which is almost always followed or joined by “Wait. This product claims to treat/cure/prevent disease. Anything that makes…

It’s almost like, if unregulated, people running businesses do horrible things to save a buck.

When will you libs learn? We don’t need government intrusion into business and regulation. We just need freer markets where entrepreneurs and small business can flourish.

This is a great reminder of why the FDA isn’t all evil. There’s a current trend toward ‘indie’ cosmetics and while I’m sure many are tested and perfectly safe - they aren’t all tested by the FDA and could use unsafe products. Nothing against indie products, but if you’re buying an indie product, you better know what’s…

Sure, but regulation killed poison makers’ jobs.