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big-block-of-cheese-day:

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While writing the play [\u201cStraight White Men\u201d] in 2014, Lee ended up interviewing dozens of straight white men and relying on a workshop of diverse college students. She asked them to vent about straight white men \u2014 and then asked them how they would like straight white men to behave. \u201cEveryone at the workshop was like: \u2018I want a straight white man to sit down and shut up. I want him to take a back seat, to take a supporting role. I don\u2019t want him to be aggressive,\u2019\u2009\u201d she recalled. \u201c\u2009\u2018I want him to listen. I don\u2019t want him taking the head role or the biggest job or to be going after the biggest stuff. I want him in a supporting role to me.\u2019\u2009\u201d

But when she created a character according to these specifications, she was shocked to find that the workshop participants hated him. \u201cI realized that the reason they hated him was \u2014 despite all their commitment to social justice \u2014 what they believed in most was not being a loser.\u201d

- NYT

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