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Various complaints of misrepresentation.
Lesbians and feminists accused Fassbinder of misogyny (in presenting women as complicit in their own oppression) in his 'Women's Picture'. 'The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant' has been cited by some feminist and gay critics as both homophobic and sexist. Gay critics also complained of misrepresentation in 'Fox and his Friends'. Conservatives attacked him for his association with the radical left. Marxists said he had sold out his political principles in his depictions of left-intellectual manipulations in 'Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven'. The most heated criticism came for his play 'Garbage, the City, and Death', whose scheduled performance in Frankfurt was cancelled early in 1975 amid charges of anti-semitism. |