Swope was fired in 2000, in the hangover days of the strangling political correctness of the 1990s and before Web 2.0 unveiled just how much hatred of feminism there was out there (message boards, comments under articles, etc.). And on the bright side if you look at the Wikipedia entry, his firing got a lot of media coverage and probably helped his career.
I'd venture to say he MIGHT not be fired now.
All that said, the play's justification of rape is beyond hypocritical considering it's staged to protest violence against women which it actually celebrates by making drunken rape seem A-OK.
This unmasks the real thrust of feminism, which is: female = good; man = bad. For someone to get fired over pointing that out shows how closely we've come to the old Soviet Union. Thank God or whomever for the internet, which I think has done more to unravel feminism than anything since Al Bundy.
I'd venture to say he MIGHT not be fired now.
All that said, the play's justification of rape is beyond hypocritical considering it's staged to protest violence against women which it actually celebrates by making drunken rape seem A-OK.
This unmasks the real thrust of feminism, which is: female = good; man = bad. For someone to get fired over pointing that out shows how closely we've come to the old Soviet Union. Thank God or whomever for the internet, which I think has done more to unravel feminism than anything since Al Bundy.