Monday: “Muslim Business Owners Refuse to Serve Catholic Customers.”

Especially because if a Muslim ever tried to deny anyone the right to marry for not obeying Muslim doctrine, these same people would scream bloody murder for YEARS.

Love Sense8! And Nomi does have an interesting story. Well, they all do, but hers is really full of danger and derring-do right from the jump.

Why do Muslims continually get dragged into the Kim Davis conversation? And anyway, only a valid comparison if said Muslim woman is forcing OTHER WOMEN to cover their faces. Fighting for your rights is not the same as denying them to others.

I read an interview with Laverne Cox where she was asked about casting Jeffrey Tambor in TransParent, whether she thought it would be better to have cast a trans actor in the roll. Her response was pretty much what you said: it was a thoughtful idea but she saw it as potentially very traumatic. Even though it’s “just”…

Most actors have things they aren’t willing to do, I think. Like a lot won’t do nude scenes or explicit sex. Some actors have been known to turn down roles due to excessive violence (like when Mandy Patinkin left Criminal Minds). And I’m sure there are plenty of actresses who wouldn’t do a rape scene because it’s too…

I really have no opinion on this matter...just want to say...GIVE ME THAT DRESS!

I recently made a little mistake of busting out an old high school photo album while hanging out with a trans friend who was silently miserable when we were high school together. She found some of the pictures funny and there were a few goofy throwbacks, but after a while, she asked not to look at anymore photos…

I was thinking Mad Max.

I hope someone adopts both the child and the dog. Poor baby, I can’t believe the mother wasn’t arrested. What a good dog. Probably was just like “No ones gonna feed this human puppy? You should be ashamed of yourselves” lays down to feed the human puppy.

Once again, dogs are better than humans.

I’m going to plug Jamie Clayton and Sense8 here for anybody interested in a trans-played trans character who does something with her life/plot other than transition.

I guess you could argue that it was more convenient to cast a cis actor in a role where he spends a lot of time pre-transition, especially considering this was the 19th century. The problem is that this is the only type of trans storyline that Hollywood seems interested in: the struggle to transition and it’s effect…

So many people commenting have no concept of how Hollywood works. You know why Eddie was cast? Because of his name because the man has an Oscar because the #1 thing that these movies are made for is to make that skrill. Casting is way more than if you look the part. Even politics is involved in casting and who the…

Yeah, this is kind of how I feel. On OITNB they were particularly concerned about Laverne’s mental state in having to play a man, and she was delighted to find she couldn’t pass for one at all.

You were Mr. Darcy-ed by Mr. Darcy himself!

Re-Redmayne’s casting, that seems like a tricky question. On the one hand, Hollywood has a bad habit of patting cisgendered straight actors for taking on roles where they play GLBT+ people, and then themselves for being progressive enough to make a movie about non-straight people even though the cast is straight, but…

I kind of wonder, though, in a film where the main character presents as male for most of it - it seems like it might be traumatic for a trans woman, who has probably spent a long time getting her outward presentation to match her sense of self, to have to present as male again for so much of it. Although, you know,…

As I’ve said before, the problem isn’t casting cis actors to play trans people. The problem is cis society’s obsession with transition narratives and ***THE TRANSFORMATION*** i.e. wanting to gawk at Young Stephen Hawking in drag. And then all he has to do is spout some vacuous platitudes about “getting in touch with…