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Nicholas Barnard Women Playwrights: The Waiting Room 4/17/02

  1. The central issues in the play concerning the medical issues are how men control medicine and women are fundamentally unable to control their care, and their bodies. It also deals with how medicine is a finically driven process that does not take in consideration the patients, but the money that can be made off of it. Lisa Loomer presents this by fundamentally showing how the characters at all levels of the process interact to create the medical system, as it exists.

  2. Loomer's point bringing together all of these characters is showing that that women have been treated the same over all times, and that nothing fundamentally has changed.

  3. Loomer's message to the solution of women's oppression is that women first must not oppress themselves and other women. I believe you can reconcile the portrayal of Larry, Oliver, and Blessing as members that participate in the oppression, and the distributors of the oppression that the women them selves distribute to the women and reinforce.

  4. a. Wanda gives Victoria her tits as an ultimate gift of her woman hood.

b. Yes, I agree that greed is the villain of the play. The executives of theses companies could have been woman as men. The fundamental driving force is greed, I agree with Loomer.