More language creep.
Are you a playwright who identifies as female? Are you are Mum? We want your scripts for the Motherhood Plays.
We’re keen to programme a week of play(s) by the most brilliant mother playwrights from 2 – 6 July.
Here is how to submit :https://t.co/ODDPro3QIs#503Motherhood pic.twitter.com/ceixkzs0sS
— Theatre503 (@theatre503) March 21, 2019
Why “who identifies as”? Why not just ask “are you a mother?”?
We’re specifically looking for female identifying mothers. But, we have several other call outs that are live as well as this one, which we are welcoming male playwright submissions. ^J
— Theatre503 (@theatre503) March 21, 2019
Oh look, they gave it away completely there. Women are “female identifying” while men are just male. I guess that’s because men are real people while women are just some kind of figment of every passing imagination?
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6 responses to “Seeking men and female-identifiers”
I hope the playwrights, however they identify, can compose a sentence better than ‘But, we have several other call outs that are live as well as this one, which we are welcoming male playwright submissions.’
Aside from the ‘which we are welcoming male…’ gibberish, does ‘as well as this one’ mean to imply that males can submit entries to this one? or was it meant to say ‘other than this one’?
There is also ‘female-identifying mothers’, which might be a way of including transwomen who have fathered children (as transwomen ARE WIMMIN DAMMIT, and a woman cannot by definition be a father, ergo…..) or who have adopted kids or taken on step-children. It’s all so unclear.
@theatre503’s author’s writing is as ambiguous and poorly worded as is the trans dogma.
Maybe you can now be a mom and identify as male in our brave new world?
Do you have to actually be a mother, or can you just identify as one? What if you really really love other people’s children? What if you have a dog, cat, or other “furbaby”? What if your partner is so immature that you feel like you’re a parent? Who are you to deny my lived experience?
We keep hearing that ‘woman,’ ‘man,’ ‘mother’ and so on are words that indicate gender as opposed to sex, and that sex is indicated by ‘male’ and ‘female’. Yet here we have “Are you a playwright who identifies as female?” This is where you end up when your framework of sex and gender is turtles all the way down.
Also, what about otter-identified playwrights?
They’re in London. No explanation/excuse for the glurgy language they use:
Thanks for thinking of me, Holms. I have found that few in theatre are currently interested in the otter point of view – their loss, of course.
My question is, could I submit to this? I am a mother…but I do not “identify as” female, I am female, which is sort of a different thing. In fact, I put that answer on a doctor’s history sheet last fall when they asked whether I identified as male or female. I put that I did not identify as anything, but I was female. I’m sure my chart has duly been marked TERF, but I would be more a TERO, because of my otter-identification. (At the time, though, I still identified as a lemur, in case anyone is trying to keep track).