Some woman I worked with (she was Yoni in the Chance Theater Brain from Planet X) who makes THE most obnoxious posts on Facebook - she's the poster child for how people in the show business should never be allowed on Facebook - made one of her usual idiotic posts, this one contained a snarky reference about Fiorello because it had been included in a list of shows that have never had a Broadway revival. She acknowledged its Pulitzer but never mentioned its authors, score, anything - just a dismissive, derisive comment at the end of the post, something like "anyone got a Fiorello playlist."
So, I responded that the show has wonderful songs, that they were written by Bock and Harnick (since she didn't name them), and that the article was a bit silly because it included several huge flops (which she pointed out in her post). That's it. She, very predictably, then told me she teaches musical theater (at some high school) and doesn't need the "mansplaining." That's what she does when ANY male responds to her and she doesn't like what they post, which I find obnoxious and so typical of today. She told me her point again, even though that was not why I responded, and that she knows who Bock and Harnick are, blah, blah, blah. I responded simply by asking her when she became so insufferable. I informed her that no one was "mansplaining" - personsplaining yes. Of course, I could have said her response was womansplaining, but I don't use those idiotic cliches. She, of course, being "woke" lives for them. And this is why she will never have a career - her father is the exact same way (he's an actor who was very anti-99 seat theater during that whole debacle - even though he did plenty of it - which is more than a little hypocritical) - I love strong, talented women and I know and have worked with plenty of 'em - not one of them has ever used the word mansplaining EVER. If she responds, which she will, I will not only unfriend her, I will block her.
