The GUARDIAN Is Not Amused By Titania McGrath
11/04/2021
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From The Guardian:

Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto review – Twitter activist misfires on all cylinders

Duchess theatre, London

Andrew Doyle’s Twitter creation – played by Alice Marshall – takes predictable aim at Greta, Meghan and trans athletes with jokes that just aren’t funny

Rachael Healy, Tue 2 Nov 2021

… Barely a minute into McGrath’s section, the show attempts to provoke with a “joke” using outdated ableist terms. Is the punchline McGrath’s faux pas or are we supposed to find the idea that you’d avoid these phrases amusing? What are we laughing at? It’s a question raised again when a photograph of a trans athlete is presented as a punchline

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