THEY CALLED IT FUCKING IN PAJAMAS

Do not demand that I censor them. There was no fucking in pajamas or in anything else. It was a play that explored submission, dominance, and vulnerability. This is far, far more complex than fucking in pajamas. These are not innocent children. They will do things to try and shock me. It doesn’t work much. I’ve kinda seen it all before.

Their play was every bit as good as Fortune In Mens’ Eyes which did much the same thing and was shocking for its time. Adult prison got replaced by juvenile detention which is the setting, whether Americans like it or not, where the majority of rape in the United Stats occurs.

But this time is different.

The whole milieu of rape in Fucking in Pajamas employs the pajamas as an inuedo until near the end where the boy in pajamas becomes the predator. The play flirted with the idea that the kid in the pajamas was abused long before he arrived in juvenile detention. What knocked me out was that they knew nothing about Fortune In Men’s Eyes. I had them watch it the day after they did their own play.

They were the ones surprised.

They see rape as a cyclical thing. Not a one time event.

Rape hardens them. I am not stupid enough to believe that so called “therapy” helps kids become unhardened. That is a romantic notion, and not one based in reality.

They reality is that they have to talk about it. Whether that takes the form of acting out the drama, writing it down, finding their own sybolisms. Or whatever they meed to wrestle with.