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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

IMHO she used this as an excuse to get out of a doomed project with a lousy director.


41 posted on 07/15/2018 2:20:29 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Men need not apply.


42 posted on 07/15/2018 4:56:14 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: BinaryBoy

Sounds like “The Year of Living Dangerously”

It also stars Linda Hunt as the male dwarf Billy Kwan, Hamilton’s local photographer contact, a role for which Hunt won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_Living_Dangerously_(film)


43 posted on 07/15/2018 5:02:50 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: rktman

I hate to say it, but this type of thing should be absolutely encouraged. It’s in our interest that there seriously demented leftists eat the liberals who still vaguely leashed to reality.


44 posted on 07/15/2018 5:14:00 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: jeffc
Does this mean the queer in The Big Bang Theory who plays a straight guy must quit?
The entire show is a disgrace.

It's a slap in the face for these absolute morons to be portrayed as engineers/scientists.

And Penny going for that squinty eyed idiot? Yea that's believable...well maybe it is, she's no winner either.

What is believable is they are all brilliant government paid hacks waiting for someone else to fix the elevator.

45 posted on 07/15/2018 5:34:56 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Jeff Sessions not a mouse or mr. magoo but a low life back stabbing bastard pretending to be AG)
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To: rktman

Johansson is perfect for the role. Sometimes she can look a little manish. At times her twin brother looks more feminine than she does.


46 posted on 07/15/2018 5:41:39 PM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: rktman

Clicked on article, & then read article of U of Minnesota’s new transgender sensitivity rules, punishments to include firing and expulsion. Rather intolerant: https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/15/university-minnesota-beclowns-proposed-transgender-sensitivity-rules/


47 posted on 07/15/2018 6:22:28 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Mr. Lucky

Them cracka’s never could fight without losin’ a lotta blood.


48 posted on 07/15/2018 6:24:41 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: Williams

Johansen has just begun her odyssey towards conservatism...


49 posted on 07/15/2018 7:23:34 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: x

There was a lot of complaints about tilda swinton playing the comic-book asian character in “Doctor Strange”.

Normal people are increasingly under attack for being willing to play the roles of LGBT folks.

There were even objections when the transgender Laverne Cox played the transvestite Dr. Frank-n-Furter in the remake of Rocky Horror Picture Show.


50 posted on 07/16/2018 10:42:35 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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