Playing armchair investigator and buffy fan, all the accusations kind of track in my opinion. A lot of the things he’s be accused of saying and doing, he’s said and joked about in dvd commentaries over the years, but in more of a joking tone.

I think there is a big difference to presenting something that has a relatively small percentage of offensive material in relationship to the total content with a disclaimer, vs something that is almost entirely offensive.

No disclaimer would make releasing a large piece of media that is mostly offensive commercially…

Im sure they are kicking them selves for not getting the $500M min from the pre-covid theatrical release and then putting it on D+ months later to get that extra income.

So i was trying to make sense put of this earlier.

I’m over 40 and trans. I can not just ignore this.

I don’t really get the tone of the article. It’s clearly just a marketing push. So whining about an advert or limited eps feels weird since it’s clearly not a bug, it’s a feature.

You don’t pick a photo of Swift in font of a CATS banner if you want this audience to take her suggestions remotely seriously.

I agree, but as written the decree is useless. As stated, it targets companies that dont even exist and doesnt cover companies that are real threats. They need to take new action. 

I get the impulse to want to be someone else. Take the challenge. But honestly. It’s not helpful. I’d rather they not make a movie than have a cis star play a trans person.

Yeah, that’s worse. That’s way worse.

There are countless examples of movies with no name stars in the leads and they come in and crush it financially. Parasite. 1917. Star Wars. Halloween. El Mariachi. Seriously, it’s an infinite list. You don’t need them. 

Sounds like a good plan to me.

Been there. Done that.

Who says I’m not business minded?

Or we could hire trans actors. Because apparently trans stories are worth telling, but not worth trans people telling them.

Or a trans actor of color over 50 could have this part. Someone with less privilege than her.

So Halle would need make up to show the different stages of transition for the role. So a trans person could also use make up to show their progress for different stages of the transition.

This is clearly the “maybe I can get an oscar” role, because of how hard it would be for her to play this, and how important the story is. But we can’t have someone tell their own story.

So you need to see someone’s privates to prove they are trans or cis?

But why not actually show the real discriminated populations if your goal is to showcase that they exist. Probably get some of the story right.