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was born out of a workshop Lee conducted with a group of women, people of color, and LGBTQ people. Lee was cognizant that the umbrella term "straight white man" represented the default "other" for marginalized groups, and so asked the workshop attendees what they thought of straight white men, and
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writing "not only does it not exhibit any of the humor, recklessness, and passion of Lee's previous work; it refutes those things." Others praised it on the basis of the same reasoning, with
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