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The city I live in doesn't rule. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Local student is being denied the role for not be assigned male at birth. Now they've decided that Oklahoma is too controversial of a play and includes graphic scenes not fit for minors so they're pulling the whole show. Bunch of asshats at Sherman, TX ISD.

Edit: I will try to answer any comments I can. I do not personally know the student. I can't really speak for trans folks as I'm just an ally who wants better for this kiddo and all trans people.

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[-] kromem@lemmy.world 112 points 9 months ago

Yeah, because it's not like theater has a longstanding history of having people play characters that are a different sex from the one they were born as or anything...

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 68 points 9 months ago

Shakespeare = typical woke leftist groomer

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago

Literally just writing stories so men can dress like fairies and kiss each other in front of others

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 9 months ago

As a fabulous queen watches.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago

Dammit, Aristophanes was also a SJW!

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 74 points 9 months ago

There isn't even an attempt to suggest that there is some form of greater good at play here. They just apologetically do it and make no excuses. This is oppression, plain and simple.

[-] kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Now they're acting like it was never about Max and that it was the adult themes in "Oklahoma" . They dropped the gender rule and the play is postponed until January. No promise of Max keeping his role. I'll be surprised if they aren't buying time so the original lead can take the part back.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 50 points 9 months ago

Gatekeeping gender... in theater.

This is advanced bigotry.

[-] kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 9 months ago

Something Sherman ISD has a history of doing. A few years ago they tried to block the creation of a LGBT student group.

[-] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 28 points 9 months ago

I expect no different from Texas at this point.

[-] kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago

Same honestly. I'm in a county that 75% of the vote went to The Great Trumpkin. Can barely afford to live here, but can't afford to move either.

[-] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

The Great Trumpkin

OK I'm stealing this one xD

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 21 points 9 months ago

Muh liberties!

[-] kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 9 months ago

That's how this whole damned town government is. It's a crooked city run by crooked construction company owners, contractors, and other people in the housing market. They put house building before anything else in the town to the point of not enforcing ANY building codes against house builders, burning massive pies of brush in the middle of a heavily populated area for land clearing, and so much more. Their response? Landowners have a right to develop their land. I could go on for hours listing the corruption here, but I digress.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago

Ah yes, the "ban anything I don't like" kind of liberty.

[-] bappity@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

disgusting. this policy wouldn't exist if he didn't get a lead role. it's such obvious oppression

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

clearly we just have a biological advantage in uh theatre how can you blame them /s

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

yeah people assigned as female are better at acting like a man

/s but not in a transphobic way

[-] Fal@yiffit.net 15 points 9 months ago

Is the student actually transgender? Because the text of the article mentions Mrs. Doubtfire, which imo is pretty fundamentally different situation. I'm legitimately asking this question, would it be ok for a cis male student to play a female lead? I feel like that wouldn't be ok with a lot of people.

[-] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

The text of the article also says that Max Hightower identifies as a transgender male. His parents refer to him with male pronouns.

I’m legitimately asking this question

Are you? Because it seems like you're wilfully ignoring the explicit statements in the article.

[-] Fal@yiffit.net 1 points 9 months ago

That's fine. I read the article. But his dad also talked about Mrs. Doubtfire, which like I said is fundamentally different situation

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 26 points 9 months ago

If the student was cis female, they article wouldn't refer to him as he/him.

[-] ssfckdt@mastodon.cloud 14 points 9 months ago

you give rural Texas news stations a bit more credit than I would

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago

Neither pro-trans nor transphobic media has any reason to refer to a cis woman/girl by he/him.

[-] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

not to mention his dad literally being quoted as using he/him pronouns...

[-] kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 9 months ago

The student is transgender. From my understanding he was assigned female at birth.

[-] Luvon@beehaw.org 16 points 9 months ago

Why not? In Shakespearean times all the roles were played by males. It’s called ACTING for a reason. If I play I Christian it doesn’t mean I have to be one; if I play an outgoing sporty dude, it also doesn’t mean I am one.

The student is also transgender, it states as much in the article. Mrs doubtfire wasn’t from the article writer or the kid. It was someone else wondering why people are being so conservatively idiot about it.

[-] Fal@yiffit.net 2 points 9 months ago

Why not? In Shakespearean times all the roles were played by males

You answered your own question. They were played by males because females weren't allowed to perform.

It’s called ACTING for a reason

I'm not saying people would have an issue with it solely because of gender identity. But you don't think people would take issue with a cis male taking the part of a female role?

[-] Luvon@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

Even to this day females often enough play teens or young adult males. Sometimes because there’re simply aren’t enough male actors.

If they can look and can act the part the director wants, that’s what matters.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 9 months ago

You're not familiar with the history of theater, are you?

[-] Fal@yiffit.net 2 points 9 months ago

I am, where women weren't allowed to perform so men played their roles instead.

[-] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The thing is Mrs. Doubtfire IS a male lead. In the musical Daniel Hillard (male lead) crossdresses as Mrs. Doubtfire, so not allowing Max to play that role seems transphobic (though it's propably the school trying to protect its ass from lawsuits by groups such as Moms for Third Reich or whatever they're called... It's also quite ironic as the role seems to me gender non conforming to begin with).