Unlearning

It was never our fault

I saw a performance of Carmen—the operatic tale of the Spanish bandit in a dress that dances like flames. Carmen, the character, is usually played as a seductress, a castanet-wielding temptress who leaves the stage littered with men who can’t resist her bohemian charms. The harder she pushes them away, the harder they fall. Like the love she sings about…