Controversies abound this year about women. The shooter in the Orlando killings texted his wife (and she him) during the slaughter. A British MP was killed for stating views about BREXIT just a few days ago. Struggles about "campus rape" (and colleges hiding these Title IX "investigations") proliferate and resurface after the recent "soft" conviction of a rapist in the Stanford swimmer case.
Women are fighting back against abuse by non-Equity theatre companies by misogynistic and even criminal harassment by male actors, directors, and others. One theatre (Profiles Theatre in Chicago) closed suddenly as a result. In LA and NYC the ripples of small theatre sexual abuse (threatening, harassment, intimidation, and even physical harming, etc) are being talked about and prosecuted.
On the world stage -- in many countries, ethnicities, and religions -- women struggle to gain understanding, equal treatment, and permanent recognition as being human. And all these struggles are happening now --at this moment, in this second -- everywhere around the world! Honor women always!
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