Higgins: Eliza… not all men are…confirmed bachelors like me and the Colonel. Most men are the marrying sort.
Great idea, Lib! Since every mother in America is clearly capable and willing to make only the best choices concerning their children, your plan will work perfectly!
Sorry for the Hijack:
Higgins also insists that Pickering come to live with him (even though Pickering is very wealthy and could live anywhere he chose). Higgins’s mother is thoroughly excited when she thinks he has a girlfriend and dashed when he tells her “No! She’s a common flower girl.” Higgins never once mentions an even remotely romantic interest in Liza or any other woman, sings one song to the virtue of men and another on the perils of letting a woman into your life, and attempts to comfort Eliza by saying
Higgins: Eliza… not all men are…confirmed bachelors like me and the Colonel. Most men are the marrying sort.
While none of this is quite on a par with Lucky Lukas, the play could easily be played in such a way that Transylvania’s isn’t the only queen at the ball.
I paid in April.
This is the second time you’ve mentioned this idea, and you still haven’t explained how this doesn’t lead inevitably to an gigantic uneducated and illiterate underclass. If the state does not provide free education to everyone, how do any but the wealthiest afford to educate their children or themselves?
I would not object to some of my taxes subsidizing college education. I consider it an investment in the society I live in.
You paid for limousines and haircuts and expense account lunches. I want you to put your money in an envelope and mail it to my daughter. She has a right to it, so you say.
I said she has a right to an education. I have already paid for that education. If you have a problem with how tax money is administrated your argument is with someone else. Personally. I think we need to put more money into education and that means we need to tax the crap out of rich people. I personally believe that there is no such thing as a right to unlimited wealth.
I think you have confused schooling with education, and that you have not yet explained how it can be that after trillions of dollars spent by the Department of Education, 25% of Americans think the Sun revolves around the Earth.
Dear God but think what this does to The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, a state subsidized complex commonly considered one of the best repertory theaters in the world (or, if you prefer, “the Pearl on the collar of the Gerbil in the Asshole of America”). Shakespeare’s characters include murderers, statuatory rapists, thieves, adulterers, traitors, fugitives from justice and many other violators of the Alabama Penal Code- and those are just the good guys! I’ve seen several plays there with openly gay characters portrayed or mentioned (Blues for an Alabama Sky, Fair & Tender Ladies, Idols of the King, Steel Magnolias, etc.) and in none of those was any Godly attempt to show them as deserving of death made, and I’ve seen plays there that promoted drug use (Ain’t Misbehavin’), illegal gambling (Guys & Dolls), the occult (Camelot), hate crimes (All God’s Dangers)- hell, the place is basically a huge brick “Joy of Gay Sex and Other Vices” park.
Then there’s GONE WITH THE WIND, which can never again be shown or read in a public school as it portrays in a positive light characters who own slaves, murder, rob (rob a corpse in fact), marry their first cousins, support or engage in prostitution, etc… Fiddler On the Roof can’t be shown as it’s about a man who attempts to force his underaged daughters into sexual unions against their will and forbids miscegenation (which is legal in Alabama and has been ever since way back in 2000), Death of a Salesman promotes suicide (a crime in all states), Dracula (promotes vigilantism), Arsenic & Old Laces (a family containing three mass murderers? Puh-leez!), The Music Man (the main character is a confidence artist)- exactly what will be able to be produced on stage if this passes, I wonder?
And yes, that is about five miles from my house. They had a huge musical production of NOAH! (yes, the capital letter and punctuation are in the original title) going for about three years.
Liberal: you have not yet explained how it can be that after trillions of dollars spent by the Department of Education, 25% of Americans think the Sun revolves around the Earth.
But does anybody really believe that the stats on such measures of mass ignorance would be better without the state funding universal education? We’ve got a lot higher literacy rate now than we did back in the more libertarian nineteenth century, that’s for sure. AFAICT, you’re using the defects of the current system to argue that we should adopt a worse one.
Moving on from the public education hijack to the My Fair Lady hijack:
Sampiro: * Higgins never once mentions an even remotely romantic interest in Liza or any other woman*
Remember, though, that MFL is based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, who did a lot of unconventional characters. Also recall that Eliza, a lower-class working woman, is actually living under Higgins’ roof unchaperoned by any woman except his housekeeper, herself not his social equal. If Higgins had expressed any romantic interest in Eliza, it would have suggested the possibility of an improper liaison where he exploited her sexually (as Eliza’s own father assumes to be the case).
Perhaps I have. Could you explain the difference?
And getting rid of public education will make that number smaller?
Yes. Only the people who know how to read will be able to answer the test questions.
But remember also that only recently did they restore the scene to Pygmalion in which Higgins ask his new Greek slave (played by Tony Curtis) “Do you consider the easting of oysters to be moral, and the eating of snails to be immoral?..My taste includes both snails and oysters” as said slave bathes him.
Oh wait— sorry, I’m thinking about the restored version of It’s a Wonderful Life.
No, no. That’s the Wizard of Oz.
“No, Aunt Em, this was a real truly live place and I remember some of it wasn’t very nice, but most of it was beautiful–but just the same all I kept saying to everybody was “I want to go home” before little Bernie Schwartz takes one up the tuchis!”
BTW, if Cat On A Hot Tin Roof gets these people up in arms, imagine what would happen if they saw an elementary school production of Suddenly, Last Summer.
Miss Smithers 5th grade class presents: Suddenly, Last Summer.
Catherine: “Oh, it was horrible! They descended on him like, like a pack of animals!”
Oh, look at our Mary, she seems so grown up playing Catherine!
Oh, look at little Robert playing Sebastian! He makes such a good little queer, and his impression of being eaten alive was pretty convinceing for an eleven year old, don’t you think, honey?
Or how depiction of homosexuality in literature, plays and films promotes that life choice in any way. If anything it promotes tolerance. That can only be a good thing . . . unless you live in Talibama.
A wizard does it.