Help Leah Graduate

AANNNYYYYWWWAAAAYYYYYY.

I have been at university for a long time now and I am finally within sight of the tape. I know this post is not theatre related but you cannot imagine the feeling of being within a month or two of finishing after six years at Murdoch (actually I have a suspicion some of you do know that feeling).

Basiclly I have a question for all of you. The answers will form the basis of an essay on the cultural construction of everyday life.

"What cultural product do you think best represents the day to day sexual relations between men and women?"

(Not tackeling homosexuality at the point).

Answers in an e-mail please. No names required, just age and gender. And perhaps an explantion if you feel so moved.
It can be any cultural product, film, tv. magazine, book, PLAY...

Some suggestion...Sex in the City, Friends, Fatal Attraction, Mills and Boon novels, Love and other Catastrphes, Playboy, the Windsor Smith billborads, you get the idea. Now how you WANT sex to be, not how it should be, HOW IT IS!!

Your time is much appreciated.

LEAH

Just a general observation:

I find it difficult to fathom how responses solicited from users of this site could in any way be confused with legitimate research data...

Could we all please make a committment to keep this site focussed on Theatre issues. Other interests have other sites.

Maybe if enough people DON'T answer her question she will go away.

Hey, Malcolm & Lilly whats with the Bitch-Fest, the lady was asking for some help via e-mail if your not interested don't respond....Cheers

Lilly and Malcolm, I take your point. And perhaps if it had been put in a way not reminicent of a crucifiction this apology would be more sincere;

I will not ask my friends in community theatre for help again. I will strongly dissuade others from doing so.

You can quote me on that.

LEAH MAHER

PS Thank you Joe. You are a good Christian and a very pretty man.

Oh, thank you to those who replied. Your answers were thought provoking and intellegent. I knew they would be.

>PS Thank you Joe. You are a good Christian and a very pretty man.

What has Christianity got to do with his sticking up for you??

Do Christian men have a monopoly on goodness?

Do I deduce from your comment that you have come across BAD Christians?

.......Oops, wandering..............Yes, let's stick to thespian matters.

Lilly and Malcolm,

I must admit that I have a little difficulty understanding your viewpoint on this subject other than as a (semi) veiled personal attack motivated by a hidden agenda...

Whilst I concede that Malcolm may have a point in his assertion that we should make an effort to maintain the 'purity' of this site, it is difficult to see how we can do this against the ever burgeoning numbers that are being attracted. And there have been several 'variations' to the basic theme of the site since inception. I fail to see how Leah's innocent enough request contravenes the purity of the site in any meaningful way - PARTICULARLY when she wasn't going to be clogging bandwidth by asking for replies to be posted to the board...?

Another 'theatre-only' mailing list to which I was subscribed some time ago was generally dedicated to the esoteric aspects of the theatre and performance art amongst professionals. When a uni student in drama had the 'audacity' to come into the lions den with a query, she was completely humiliated by just about everybody on the site. However, in some ways they were justified because the perception was that any answers given would be plagarised directly into the assignment she was preparing for submission. So she was roundly rousted out of town...

My point? Leah has not asked us for material which could be plagarised but for responses which then have to be interpreted and submitted directly by her. This fact plus her obvious support of this site since its inception should entitle Leah to a bit of leeway in this sort of request...a request she has freely admitted will be unlikey to be made again given the closure of her studies.

In short, a little charity please, guys...after all, there has been precious little of this rare commodity to date with attack after attack followed by bitter reciprocation...I say enough - and I'm sure there are at least a few out there who might agree with me.

Regards
Jason

I agree with Joe and Jason.
Maybe when Malcom and Lilly come up with a comprehensive definition of what Green Room Gossip and Theatre is, then they can educate the rest of us as to the proper content of threads in the newsgroup.
As for J's response, yah boo sucks who appointed you as the semantic police?
That was a note to Joe personally from Leah that happened to be in a public forum, still it is no business of yours.
Best of Luck Leah, I hope that in spite of small minded, overly busy bodies you dont throw out the baby with the bath water.
You do have friends here after all.

This will probably get me talked about as well, well talk away, I got used to knives in the back long before this web site was created.

Will the woman welcome you jumping in to defend her from...........what?.....Leah sounds like a very assertive person to me.......so probably not..........

>Best of Luck Leah, I hope that in spite of small minded, overly busy >bodies you dont throw out the baby with the bath water.
>You do have friends here after all.

I get it....in your world.a friend can only be someone who NEVER gives feed back........Don't ever take up acting then......

>This will probably get me talked about as well, well talk away, I got >used to knives in the back long before this web site was created.

Probably?.....sounds like a wish to me!

So don't be so touchy and learn to relax man:)))

Hi ya Jason!

I must point out that I am not in fact running a hidden agenda nor engaging in a personal demolition. I don't think I have ever met Leah and certainly have no reason to bear her any grudges.

My sole point was that with the burgeoning of this site it would be a pity to have to wade through piles of junk mail before hitting upon issues relevant to the intensions of the site.

Theatre is a big field and I did not attempt to suggest that some form of 'purity' (your word) be maintained.

My general observation was hardly a 'crucifixion' nor could it in any way be seen as 'personal'.

Apologies if it was taken this way.

Another general non-personal observation: The amount of responses on this non-issue demonstrates my concern.

Malcolm, was "intensions" an intentional pun?

Malcolm , two of which were posted by you!!!

Malcolm Crisp wrote:
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My sole point was that with the burgeoning of this site it would be a pity to have to wade through piles of junk mail before hitting upon issues relevant to the intensions of the site.

Junk mail? Show me the spam Malcolm, show me the spam.

Another general non-personal observation: The amount of responses on this non-issue demonstrates my concern.

Well, it WAS a perfectly harmless non-issue.

Yes, I suppose you're right. A forum called Green Room Gossip should be left for serious theatrical discussions...
And I guess there'll be no more frivolous talk of community theatre members and things such as their weddings, their giving birth or deaths. Now maybe if we all shut up, this terrible inconvenience can end for all of us.

Leah if I had to choose one thing that represented the way our society is in regards to the seperation of gender I would have to say Gwen Harwoods poems (try Suburban Sonnet and In the park), which I have been studying in English. She describes the way womens dreams are often given up for the pressure of running a household. This may not be what you're after, but hopefully it is a help.

Quent

P.S. Malcolm, pull your head out of your butt, if you needed help with a thesis I'm sure you would appreciate a bit of help.

Hi Dan how's things in Melbourne.....oh sh*t can I ask you that here......?

Furthermore ...

GREENROOM (n) .. a room set aside for artists in a theatre (opera house/tv studio/etc) in which they can relax when not performing.

GOSSIP (n, v) .. (1) idle talk, esp about the affairs of others; (2) light, familiar talk or writing.

GOSSIP COLUMN (n) .. a column or segment of a publication in which gossip about people/events is printed/posted.

Serious stuff is catered for in Reviews/Tech Talk/ Classifieds/What's On etc.
So where's the dirt/entertaining stuff which makes me LOL??!!!??..
BarbZ