"I won this award just cause I played a transsexual with Aids - well whoopeefuckingdoo!
"Usually straight actors just get at Oscar if they played a gay dude.
"So good for me!
"So brave etc etc...
"To all the dreamers out there around the world watching this tonight in places like the Ukraine and Venezuela, I want to say we are here and as you struggle to… to make your neo-fascist dreams happen, to live the impossible - like trying to overthrow democratically elected politicians and serve US power and hegemony… I don't really know much about politics, but I'm thick and saw something on CNN, dude. It's a real bummer. We’re thinking of you tonight."
PS 'You don't deserve an award for portraying a trans-woman, because you're a man,' Any actor can play anyone - that is acting. But this veneration is a patronising farce.
Death to brain-dead celebactivism!
Death to brain-dead celebactivism!
Male actor plays trans woman: Wins awards, pats on back
Trans women live as trans women: Face violence, unemployment, oppression, erasure
— Amy the Snow Queen (@EntirelyAmelia) March 3, 2014
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You are not comparing like with like. NATO didn't send military forces into Poland et al and force them to join. Those countries joined because they had experienced decades of Soviet imperialism which did indeed include actual military occupation and in some cases the military suppression of protests, e.g. in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. You are an apologist for Russian imperialism and the suppression of human rights that that entails. But then, it's happening to other people not you.
ReplyDeleteYou are free to stupidly posture as if your own government and those of other NATO countries to a mlitary dictatorship precisely because it is not. You are not going to get taken away by Cameron's secret police. In Russia, critics of the government get jailed or murdered. You really are a dishonest and disgusting hypocrite falsely posing as a socialist, Richard.
Eh?
DeleteAm I also posing as a somdomite?
ReplyDeleteRichard Smith, RIGHT WING LOON masquerading as left wing idiot has finally jumped the shark. Nothing left to see here folks
ReplyDeleteThe loon bit may be accurate...
Deletei think the boo he's not trans is rlly only cos it's been hard for trans actors to get any roles at all, and also that when the actor is trans they might be able to advise on the script and avoid things like his character going for a piss standing up, that i've read is something loads of pre-op/non-op trans women wouldn't do...
ReplyDeletebut then you get things like this:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/bent/10-trans-actors-who-werent-offered-jared-letos-role-in-dallas-buyers-club-20140220
which proposes a load of trans women who've all had loadsa surgery to look rlly feminine, whereas if you had some film which was about say someone coming out as trans then you'd want them to have a more blokey bone structure to their face or something. altho apparently laverne cox has an identical twin who's a bloke. so just cast her for everything.