Ew

[kaberett]

Creepy reviews that simultaneously Other and fetishise me mean I've arrived, right?

Never mind the misgendering (I state at the beginning of the show that even when I was young, I was "pretty sure I wasn't going to be either a man or a lady [when I grew up]" at the beginning of the show, and that I am - at a subsequent point in the show - correctly gendered: I think I'm actually most grossed out by the fact that he's referring to a group of people of whom at 22 I am by a significant margin the youngest as "girls"...

But, hey, the audiences are liking what we're doing, and I'm by and large having a great time, so.

Comments

[askygoneonfire]

it’s not often that you get to see an actually disabled wheelchair user being spanked
*Actually* disabled? What does that mean then?!

The 'girls' issue seems pervasive - the Olympics have been plagued by it!

[mfb]

I think the 'girls' thing (insofar as a "girl" is apparently "any woman who isn't married or older than oh, what, 50") has been more or less codified in English, at least older versions (read: pre-2000). Newer dictionaries, at least the couple that I just pinged, include the 'more or less any pre-senescent woman' definition, but include it as 'informal / sometimes offensive'.

It's still totally disgust-o-gross, but I see why it's so pervasive. (Which is why I avoid using the word completely, unless described party has specifically and exactly specified they are comfortable with and would like to be called that. I like to think it balances things out an infinitesimal amount.)

(e: Also, don't mean to imply that codified English is any more legitimate than what isn't in a dictionary. This is a pretty evident case where it is, in fact, less legitimate.)

[inoru_no_hoshi]

Dude's really patronising about it, too. :| *hugs* (Spiffing top hat, though!)

[carthaginians]

NO that was a COOL PHOTO of you that is NOT ALLOWED >:(

[swaldman]

Two points from me, for what they're worth:

1. That review reads to me as "I want to give a positive review, but doing that would make me less of a manly man, so I must preface and suffix it with excuses"

2. meh, reviews. If your seats are staying full, that's what counts[1]. The opinions of the many, spreading by word of mouth, over that of one guy.

EDIT: Also, love the photo :-)

[1] At least in terms of what other people think. That's perhaps not the only thing to measure art by, although theatre tends to lean that way more than, say, painting.