I sure to post here a lot! Guess I just like sharing with this forum.

Anyways, some of you have probably seen me refer to my theatre teacher, and her cissexist ways. But I wanted to tell one of the stories of where she actually made me upset.

So we are doing a final skit for the year, I am a senior in high school at this time of posting, and a male friend of mine and I were very eager to do a dark comedy called "Dog Eat Dog". The basic script had two male parts, and one interchangeable one. So it wad him, two girls, and me.

Now the groups all had to have an extra person in case some was out on performance day. So since our skit had three parts, we a group of four.

When we approached our teacher and asked if we could modify the script to have more female roles, or have one of the girls cross dress. And the teacher stubbornly denied our request and demanded we "stay true" to the script. Thus. Our group disbanded.

So my friend and I go through the other scripts the teacher has, and she immediately starts handing us plays that are "1 boy and 1 girl". Which was off putting, seeing as I had told her about my gender identity (hell i even had the pronoun tag on).

So we were now a group of three and were digging through scripts, and we select another dark comedy called "The Big Black Box". And we found it was an AB script about a man and a talking box. We basically didn't assign the box a gender, seeing as it's a box. So we read through it and decided it was perfect, seeing as I would be the box, and I am much better at voice acting than physical acting.

So we chose i, and as we disscussed props, the teacher came over to make sure we were doing all right. And she seemed to force the idea that the box was a girl. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that whenever we called it 'the box' or used gender ambiguous pronouns, the teacher would immediately jump in with a statement emphasizing the 'she' when refering to the box. It was very off putting, not gonna lie.

On top of that, in the play, the box refers to itself as either 'we' or 'I'. The character sheet on the front page says it is a smug baritone, suggesting the box originally had a more masculine voice and demeanor. So much for being 'true to the script' am i right?

I'm just confused at this odd double standard.

So there's my story of my oddly strict theatre teacher who won't allow cross dressing and gives inanimate objects genders. A literal gender box if you will.