So if this were a remake of The Color Purple you’d be ok with her playing the lead in blackface?

Her conventional attractiveness isn’t going to do anything for the role since it's going to have to be hidden under a ton of makeup and prosthetics. Johannson has yet to carry any movie to great success that didn’t have a gimmick to it that makes it unclear if her presence was the draw. From what I’ve read about this…

Because they don’t want to make Gill’s story. They want to make a film about a sexy lesbian who “managed to claim her power” by running brothels.

This is the only correct response. THANK YOU

Start giving trans actors roles that aren’t as trans people, and then we can talk about cis actors getting gigs telling our stories. If you limit trans actors to trans roles, you don’t get to complain about your “artistic freedom” or whatever self-serving tripe you’ve invented to justify it. You’ll get fully-justified…

1) ScarJo is an incredibly famous and well known actress who was amongst the highest paid for a few years. At that level, you can turn down things and share as much blame as casting. She’s not out here bussing tables part time and landing her first big break, this is irresponsible and her response is dissrespectful.

She got paid, she doesn’t care.

She’s a producer on the project too. Take a seat.

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?

Ohhhhh. I thought it was “when they go low we get high.” I’ve been doing it wrong for the last year and a half.

and if we lived inside an Aaron Sorkin script, “when they go low, we go high” might actually work. But this is the real world and every time we go high, they go even lower and its time for that shit to stop.

The West Wing loves to pretend that the other side plays by the same rules we do. Maybe in 1999 they did. But those rules no longer apply, so fuck high minded debate. The Trump Administration isn’t trying to debate us. They’re trying to kill us.

I can live with herpes.

I’m more on board the idea of 500 Days of General Strike, but whatever works I guess.

Can we have a 500 Days of “Eat Shit, Ivanka” along the lines of Gawker’s 500 Days of feckless whatshername?

There’s that old Gawker feeling.

Right?! Van Jones should know better.

If it was product placement then it would have been even more annoying because he didn’t make it clear in the tweet.

It seemed like looking at the trailer, there is a zero real elephant in Dumbo. I wonder, is this how they’re going to Lion King as well? (I almost wrote Loin King, which I can only assume is the Lion King porn parody.)

I would argue that reporting on this is a further violation of Perry, whether she was or was not a victim of Luke’s. It doesn’t feel like she had any agency in this breaking and that’s gross even if she’s a public figure I’m not particularly interested in