The funny thing is that it’s about the ‘Ghost in the Shell’: that is to say, the soul/ghost, the identity of Major, not her outward appearance (the shell). She is an entity that is not defined by her shell. ( she lost her own body a long time ago ). It’s all about finding new identities in a rapid changing world of…

You cast any of those people and you may as well just go shoot the damn movie in your back yard on an iPhone. But I guess if having an asain actress is more important than the movie not looking like absolute ass because no big studio is willing to put the first cent behind it then, sure, you can cast half of Tokyo and…

I 100% agree about the white washing criticism. But the Kaede Aono one is wrong in so many levels. First one is that the actress in the right panel is actually Rinko Kikuchi... If you wanna point out racism at least don’t be racist yourself, that’s ridiculous. Second one is people are throwing random Asian actress…

Or could just watch the one with Scar Jo. Not that big of a deal really.

I’m not sure cyborgs have a race. I’m pretty sure they look like whatever their creator wants them to look like.

I don’t mind choosing a white actress for the role, because frankly, 95% of anime characters don’t look like japanese people, or western people for that matter. They just look like anime characters...

The best part is all these children are going to pay money to see it when it does come out just so they can b**ch about it more. The movie doesn’t look that bad, as a big Ghost in the Shell fan I definitely get the shows vibes from it but I also don’t think it’s going to be groundbreaking or fantastic, it’s going to…

oh look! lots of people judging a movie before they’ve even watched it.

“Open their minds” - sure whatever. But “fight feminism”? Is that seriously something that MRA types get out of the Matrix? I can’t even figure out how to piece that together.

That is an authoritarian demand and you don’t have the power to enforce it. Simply bellowing at people that “Trans women are trans women because they *are*” just makes you look like some religious nut screaming everything the bible says is true because it says so in the bible.

This is one of those posts where I want to make a comment dismissing it because its socially relevant to the country in which it was made and no country should be forced to adhere to some other countries debatable social justice. But at the same time I know .. Those Jezebelites ... will tear me apart for it.

No one is assigned anything, they are just born with what they are born with that was long before designated scientifically as male/female to help explain things like sexual reproduction. Sometimes what they have and what they want/feel/need don’t follow a statistical commonality of interoperability.

Well, laws aside, I’m looking more at this line:

You cheapen the discourse by using the term “TERF.” Radical feminists have always been critical of gender. We see it as the main tool the patriarchy uses to keep women down. Therefore the ideal world of trans-activists and radical feminists are fundamentally opposed and I don’t think we’ll ever see eye-to-eye on this.…

Attempts to redefine reality affect us all.

I have zero hate for people who decide to transition or challenge traditional gender roles, but the way that my mind defines what a “real woman” is (insofar as I can define it) I can’t agree with you. It’s literally not a question of gender, but of linguistics. You’re telling me that if I don’t define a few words…

You’re absolutely right. It’s not a debate. A debate is a discussion between two sides which each have facts. The pro-trans position is entirely emotional and based on the childish and ludicrous notion that gender is a “social construct” and is little more than a fashion choice. Gender is biological and exists purely…

Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.

I dunno, I think to some extent we cheapen the discourse by saying that TERFs aren’t feminists. That allows other feminists to avoid having to own them-having to push back against their toxicity or go out of their way to demonstrate that TERFism isn’t representative of feminism as a whole. I think it would be better…

It seems a little counterproductive here to say that defining trans women by their oppression empowers the patriarchy, and that we shouldn’t be playing Oppression Olympics — but then to cite the (completely valid) ways in which trans women have things more difficult than cis women.