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Broadway Takes To Twitter Over Transphobic New York Times Review For HEAD OVER HEELS
Broadway World ^ | July 27, 2018

Posted on 07/27/2018 11:49:21 AM PDT by EdnaMode

UPDATE: Ben Brantley has issued an apology over his review for HEAD OVER HEELS. To read more click here.

Late Thursday evening, following the publication of the New York Times theatre review of Head Over Heels, members of the Broadway community took to social media to express outrage over a review which many have dubbed transphobic.

Early in the review, critic Ben Brantley seems to invalidate an entire gender identity, writing "And its dichotomous nature matches the didactic thrust of a show that celebrates the importance of not being (and pardon me, for trotting out what's starting to feel like the decade's most overused word) binary."

Later in the review he purposefully misgenders a non-binary character, played by trans actress Peppermint (the first openly trans woman to play a principal role on Broadway) - writing "Dametas (Tom Alan Robbins), the King's viceroy and father of Mopsa, finds himself strangely drawn to her - I mean them."

In the show, it is explicitly stated early on (and is a major plot point) that the character Brantley is referring to uses the pronouns they/them.

Read all the reviews for HEAD OVER HEELS here.

See just some of the comments from the community below:


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: benbrantley; brantley; broadway; headoverheels; homosexualagenda; lgbt; lgbtq; newyorktimes; nytimes
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Brantley is one of the biggest name Broadway critics.
1 posted on 07/27/2018 11:49:21 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Just read that he is gay. More fighting in the LGBTQ community.


2 posted on 07/27/2018 11:54:02 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

I never did learn the metric system when they tried to force us to change.

I’m going to add this trans-system to my list of no-goes.


3 posted on 07/27/2018 11:57:14 AM PDT by donna (Arizona senate: Kelli Ward supports President Trump. McSally is a RINO.)
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To: EdnaMode

He seems to have Rex Reed’s wickedly clever turn of phrase and Reed’s sharpness.


4 posted on 07/27/2018 11:58:16 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: EdnaMode

He made the apology but he is seething


5 posted on 07/27/2018 11:59:27 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: EdnaMode; John Semmens

I think John Semmens need to review this production.


6 posted on 07/27/2018 11:59:44 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Ooops, I made Semmens plural, not binary. Sorry.


7 posted on 07/27/2018 12:00:34 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: EdnaMode

The left eats its own.


8 posted on 07/27/2018 12:02:46 PM PDT by livius
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To: donna

I give up too , keeping up with the transsexual stuff.

There are over 50 gender identities. I am not going to learn what they are .


9 posted on 07/27/2018 12:09:16 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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“the character Brantley is referring to uses the pronouns they/them.”

How about “it”, like the movie? You freaks make me wanna gag..


10 posted on 07/27/2018 12:13:23 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: EdnaMode

How hard would it have been to observe “The show celebrates gender fluid opinions to the point of wanting to exclude actual sex, which is binary, as a legitimate fact.”?


11 posted on 07/27/2018 12:15:19 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Transphobic? Whaaa? No such thing - a phobia is an irrational fear, they are trying to make normal people into psych patients with that crap. Nobody fears them, they are only disgusted by them! Trannies are heterophobic
12 posted on 07/27/2018 12:15:19 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: EdnaMode

To know who has the power, look at who you cannot criticize. Voltaire.


13 posted on 07/27/2018 12:17:51 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I’m not learning any new pronouns either. Ms is as for as I go.


14 posted on 07/27/2018 12:19:12 PM PDT by donna (Arizona senate: Kelli Ward supports President Trump. McSally is a RINO.)
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To: EdnaMode

Wouldn’t see it on a bet


15 posted on 07/27/2018 12:19:33 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: EdnaMode

They should have given it to Charles Isherwood. When my husband’s play got bad reviews from Isherwood, our director said “If it isn’t about c*cks*ckers in Oklahoma, it isn’t going to get a rave.” Isherwood would have loved this and used all the right pronouns.


16 posted on 07/27/2018 12:21:16 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: heterosupremacist

Most transgenders (80-90%) are biological men. Most of those (75%+) keep the male plumbing while identifying as women.

That’s why the demands to have gender IDENTITY and access to facilities is so divisive - it is a demand for biological men with the plumbing to enter women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, dorms, shelters. If they’d had the plumbing removed, there wouldn’t be an uproar.

The conflict between TERFS (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and transgenders is that most of these biologically intact men identify as female AND lesbian.

These men are overwhelmingly heterosexual. That’s part of the irony - most have normal sexual preferences but deny being men. End result - they’re demanding to be recognized as lesbians by lesbians. Lesbians, women who prefer women, are being bullied by other liberals and LBGTXYZ to have sex with mentally ill men. How dare you refuse to have sex with a fellow lesbian, you’re more privileged than him because you’re cis-gender!

Yes, liberals have gone to the insane extreme of sexual freedom - that you aren’t allowed to say no to a potential sexual partner.


17 posted on 07/27/2018 12:23:10 PM PDT by tbw2
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The dream of the free-sex utopia is that everyone would be perfectly happy if only they had sex whenever they felt like it, with whomever they wanted. This breaks down, as your final sentence observes, the minute A wants to have sex with B, but B doesn’t want to have sex with A.

There’s a reason all utopias turn into totalitarian nightmares.

Unfortunately, far too many people of both sexes and various political persuasions aren’t willing to let go of the dream. “If only we try harder to pretend it’s working, it will!”


18 posted on 07/27/2018 12:33:57 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: EdnaMode
transphobic  transrevulsion .. transpsychotic .. transmoronic

Everyone can play  :-)

19 posted on 07/27/2018 12:36:28 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Dilbert San Diego

All my friends either have “dicks” or “vaginas”.

The ones with “dicks” are men.

The ones with “vaginas” are women.

Period.


20 posted on 07/27/2018 12:39:02 PM PDT by Herodes
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