She has this idea that if you're looking at the way men look at women, whether men put women on a pedestal or whether they're wife beaters, they always are objectifying women. So I was thinking about that, and had already been thinking about political correctness and how some of the jargon of political correctness is a really safe jargon because it can mask underlying bad feelings. You can be hyper-articulate about your relationship to other groups of people while hiding the fact that maybe there's something else going on that isn't so nice. The only thing that I can write about with authority is what I can write about white people, because I'm white, so that's where the characters in the play came from. I also thought that if all of the characters in the play were objectifying Simon, the best way to show that, would be to never have him appear onstage, so that we only know who he is through their objectification of him.
Political correctness is described sometimes as simply a form of good manners.
But when it's taken to an extreme, I think the potential for danger is that people won't say what they really feel about things because they're afraid of being attacked for being insensitive. Then those things that need to be said, that need to be brought out into the open, are not going to be. That's what I think I am trying to do with the play. I am a firm believer that if sometimes you just say out loud what you're thinking it will divest it of its power. That's where I feel the danger comes.