omg sooo edgy! You like totally get the situation and like really showed them man!

To any cis person considering chipping into this conversation: You could just as easily keep your mouth shut. Whatever your opinion on this situation might be, it frankly doesn’t matter. This issue does not affect you. There’s a 90% chance said opinion is just ignorant, insensitive bullshit anyhow.

Who the hell cast that? Mr. Gill was a big rough looking masculine person that insisted on be referred to as male, and they what? Cast a 110lb super effeminate looking woman to play him? He demanded to be called Mister. He obviously valued his masculinity. What are they gonna do? Slap a mustache on her? Jesus. Take a…

What nobody has noticed yet is that Dante Gill could more accurately be played by Patton Oswalt, who is a dead ringer. 

No he was trans. Go read about him.

exactly and to her, somewhat, defense, that movie came out in, I think, 2005. We have come a long way in awareness since then. Huffman did the work and paid attention to improve her knowledge, so Scarlett has no excuse. Doesn’t help that the two other examples she cited are 1) a man who is now known for abusing trans…

Not every role is for every actor and this is pretty widely acknowledged and not all that controversial, unless you want to be purposefully obtuse about it. Selma wouldn’t really have been the same movie with Brad Pitt playing MLK now would it? I, Tonya woulda been kinda weird with Leonardo Dicaprio playing Tonya…

“Tell them that they can be directed to Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, and Felicity Huffman’s reps for comment.”

She’s creating a narrative of victimhood. 🙄

I think most trans people would be more or less OK with at the very minimum, this role being played by a cis man. Having a woman play the role of a trans man perpetuates the notion that trans men are just women playing pretend. Just look at the copy: “assumed the identity of a man,” as if she’s Superman assuming the…

Uh. I think people would FLOCK to the movie if they cast a trans actor. You clearly underestimate the buying power of the LGBTQIA community.

Felicity said she would never play a trans character ever again. That’s the difference between her and Scarlett.

Because her taking it actively prevents trans people from using their own voices in a system where they already experience extraordinary marginalization and erasure. She’s an active participant in the oppression of trans folks by taking this role. How is that not clear?

Is it because she’s a bad actress so feels she has to take any role offered to her?

Scarlett Johansson is a piece of shit white feminist who has never done anything to help anyone who isn't just like her.

And anyone who tries to pull the “movies are expensive; they need a big name” bs is just an enabler of bad people and Hollywood would still be prevelant with black and yellow face if this bs idea was actually valid and made sense.

Not that this matters as much, but I don’t think they should be including Felicity Huffman on that list if they want to defend Scarlett’s decision to take the role? I mean yes, Huffman is cisgender and the movie she was in focused too much on her character’s genitals, but at least they cast a woman to play a woman.

“Tell them that they can be directed to Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, and Felicity Huffman’s reps for comment.”

ALSO she hasn’t to know that she’s going to get called out for this shit. Maybe she enjoys appearing affronted in the face of criticism 

Transmen deserve better than ScarJo with Tom Cruise’s haircut.