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Scarlett Johansson pulls out of transgender role after backlash (Update)[WUT!]
hotair.com ^ | 7/13/2018 | John Sexton

Posted on 07/15/2018 11:39:34 AM PDT by rktman

When Scarlett Johansson was selected to play a transgender role in a forthcoming film called “Rub and Tug” there was an immediate backlash. Today, Variety reports that Johansson has backed out of the role because of the controversy:

“In light of recent ethical questions raised surrounding my casting as Dante Tex Gill, I have decided to respectfully withdraw my participation in the project,” Johansson told Out Magazine, which first reported the news, in a statement. “Our cultural understanding of transgender people continues to advance, and I’ve learned a lot from the community since making my first statement about my casting and realize it was insensitive…

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: fakenews; ruhroh; scarlettjohansson; xgender
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To: rktman

The makers of movies and TV shows are just itching to splash a tranny on the screen to convince us that tran is good, and that we should all give special privileges to trans and let them throw us in jail for using the “wrong” pronoun.

Like hell.


21 posted on 07/15/2018 12:29:28 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: I want the USA back
It's so friggin' rampant now it's nearly impossible to watch anything where it doesn't eventually rear its ugly head. Two to four per cent of the population should NOT have that much influence. 😡
22 posted on 07/15/2018 12:35:16 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

She is playing a trans-woman? Maybe they didn’t think she was passable.

Didn’t we already do this with “The Crying Game”?


23 posted on 07/15/2018 12:40:26 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing and we lose.)
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To: rktman

If Hollywood actually paid taxes they couldn’t afford to make Tranny Movies.


24 posted on 07/15/2018 12:41:25 PM PDT by heights
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The LEFT has gone full retard but I love it when they eat their own.


25 posted on 07/15/2018 12:41:32 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing and we lose.)
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To: rktman

Lib tent growing smaller and smaller:

Nov. Red Wave, wax up your surfboards.


26 posted on 07/15/2018 12:45:27 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: rktman
We're told that we must be tolerant and accepting of the Gay Community, but when the roles are reversed, we don't seem to get much tolerance or acceptance from them.

I say we base our levels of acceptance and tolerance on what we receive from the perverts, pedophiles and drag fags on their side. This "special treatment" for weirdos and reprobates isn't codified into any Law that has my consent, and absent our consent, that authority does not exist.

27 posted on 07/15/2018 12:48:27 PM PDT by Gargantua (The wheel is spinnin' and it can't slow down... ;^)
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To: rktman
This is actually good news because Johannson has now set the precedent that actors should refuse to play trans roles unless they are trans. Such movies will be much more difficult to make now because there won't be any bankable stars in lead roles. Likely only small, independents films that most people will never see, and for which the ad campaigns really won't exist.

Well done!

28 posted on 07/15/2018 12:54:11 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: rktman

She played a clone in the movie “The Island” why can’t she play a transgender?


29 posted on 07/15/2018 12:55:46 PM PDT by Popman (Wisdom is not what you know about the world but how well you know God.)
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To: wmileo

“How about Robert de Niro?”

The way he bitches and moans I wouldn’t be surprised if he started out as a chick in Hollywood.


30 posted on 07/15/2018 12:56:18 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
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To: Popman

She realized she was being insensitive to actual x-genders so............ SMDH!


31 posted on 07/15/2018 12:58:20 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Good point!


32 posted on 07/15/2018 1:07:48 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Be kind to Q-cultists. They need our compassion during their madness.)
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To: mountn man
First time that the term “pulls out” and the name “Scarlett Johanson” were ever mentioned together.

You win the thread!

33 posted on 07/15/2018 1:11:40 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Glad2bnuts

I always thought that the second fight with Patterson took all of the fight out of Johansson.


34 posted on 07/15/2018 1:19:52 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: mountn man

I think I have seen them together.

Something about becoming the next king of England.


35 posted on 07/15/2018 1:29:12 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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36 posted on 07/15/2018 1:29:32 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: rktman
The very essence of "acting" is be be pretend to be a person they'll not. Nobody expects Gal Gadot(Wonder Woman) to be an 'superhero" and be able to defect millions of bullets.( Dave's Site Same here. But then, reality has a different meaning in Hollywood.
37 posted on 07/15/2018 1:48:53 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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To: rktman
Should we tell these idiots that Tom Cruise isn't really a spy? Assuming some of them like Mission Impossible it could really be a downer to find out he was only ACTING.
38 posted on 07/15/2018 1:54:11 PM PDT by LostPassword
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To: rktman

The trials and tribulations of producing a product I will never consume. :)


39 posted on 07/15/2018 2:13:24 PM PDT by Salman (It's not just lack of "civility". The Democratic Party is now a terrorist organization.)
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To: KC_Conspirator


40 posted on 07/15/2018 2:18:05 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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