I really think that even the devout, sanctimonious progressive left realizes this is the wrong time to have this type of win. I don’t think the “surfacing” of their social media comments is a fluke at the 11th hour.
As a Republican, I found myself cheering for the Gascon win. I thought it would highlight perfectly the crazy and why so many swung to Trump. My joy has been denied :). Jumping the gun, but it’s pretty obvious they won’t win.
Exactly. To burn Hollywood down anti-lefters just need to encourage and cheer for Hollywood as they take each further communist step towards the abyss.
Just wait for their film openly celebrating pedophilia. Its coming. No one will watch it but it is coming.
“I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler,” she wrote, “but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys without rights and consider policemen to be assassins. They’re all wrong.” That's as perceptive a comment about the case as I've ever seen. Unfortunately the classic format of the cancellation article still works: early in the article you say the tweets are racist/sexist/homophobic and quote horrified reactions to them, at the bottom of the article you quote the tweets themselves.
> I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler
.
I'm outraged that Gascon defiled the memory of George Floyd, whose sacrifice marked a turning point for the causes of racial progress and restorative justice. I defy anyone to link to a credible source -- not the Right Wing Echo Chamber!! -- showing that Mr. Floyd was either a "drug addict" or a "swindler." Black Lives Matter!
.
That would be my contribution to the Comments section of Ms. Yuan's article, were I a Washington Post subscriber.
I haven't watched an Academy Award show since about 1979 when I was in college and have watched probably no more than twenty new films since 1991 when I was married. Hollywood is an institution that is anti-conservative and supportive of every degenerate lifestyle and attitude in human history. For instance, about twenty years ago Hollywood foisted on the populace "Brokeback Country" about a couple of queer cowboys. It won some Academy Awards. Sorry, I'm not interested. If the fires of Los Angeles reached Hollywood, the world would be better off.
By the way, I thought the most novel part of "Victor, Victoria" was goody-two-shoes Julie Andrews exposing her very beautiful breasts at the film's ending. I wonder if she thinks it worth it now that she approaches ninety.
There always has to be one person who is too cool for school. Why comment on a field that one has zero interest in. And the main characters in Brokeback Mountain were sheepherders.
If one has not seen the movie, then one is just repeating someone else's talking point. Getting the details of the movie incorrect means that one is too lazy to spend a minute to look up the details. One reflect poorly on the poster and show that their POV is worthless.
I have certainly not seen the movie and have no interest in doing so. That doesn't mean that I am unqualified to have an opinion on it. Why would I need to watch "Pink Flamingos" in order to have an opinion on the depiction of some other pervert eating dog feces?
What Brokeback Perverts is is not a secret and, again, pretending that it makes a difference that the disgusting perverts pictured in it were involved with sheep rather than cows is nonsense.
Sailer, it seems your obsession with autogynephilic transexuals is because you suffered a lot of bullying at the hands of Martine Rothblatt when you studied with her.
"The peak of 1980s trangenderism was ultra-WASP lesbian dwarf Linda Hunt winning the 1982 Best Supporting Actress award for playing the half-white-half-Asian dwarf Billy Kwan who is Mel Gibson’s photographer in The Year of Living Dangerously. Note that Hunt’s Oscar went to her actual sex. Voters back then didn’t pretend she was a different sex. Linda Hunt was really good."
Linda Hunt also gives off some masculine energy. If you look at her, she could actually almost "pass" for being a man, sort of. She certainly did in Arnold's Kindergarten Cop. One had to glance twice to realize "oh wait, she IS a woman and not a crossdressing man." Perhaps combind with her being vertically challenged (as well as her mannish looking face) contributed to this overall vibe.
Linda was an exception to the norm of Andrews/Streisand/Hoffman play acting (where everyone's in on the joke). Hunt just actually looked like a dude, and perhaps there were people who actually thought she was for awhile.
Androgen uptake issues are pretty strange. Maybe we could study them and get some actual insights into human sexuality. But then the data might lead into some Here-Be-Dragons areas of neurology and genetics and we'd have to nuke all the research from orbit.
I also agree that was going on in the 1980s was not in any way 'transgender'. There was never a question that "Tootsie" wasn't a guy pretending to be a girl in the same "fish out of water" vein as "Trading Places", for example.
But you know what? That's where it starts. The whole LG's on camera in the early 70's just started out as comical jokey harmless characters. With the onset of AIDS during the 80's, suddenly they were elevated to "victims", and couldn't be made fun of, which continues pretty much to the present day. In it's own way, crossdressing films such as Tootsie paved the way for the present day, where T's aren't to be questioned, much less ridiculed or made fun of. Even though admittedly the vast majority of people weren't consciously thinking about transgenderism as an actual thing in the early 80's.
I believe Linda Hunt had a big role 40 years ago in Merchant and Ivory's "The Bostonians," Henry James' satire on his sister's proto-lesbian circle of highbrow women. She'd be very well cast in that.
And nobody in Hollywood, not a single notable person, anywhere in the press, has made the simple statement (even after the obligatory throat-clearing):
"Her [sic.] views on issues are totally irrelevant to the movie's merits of those of her [sic.] acting performance."
There are certainly powerful sexual eccentrics by the dozen in Hollywood, and Hollywood lefties worship at the altar of Saint George F., but I was under the impression that there wasn't a lot of sympathy for the Muslims as there are none in the business. Quelle surprise.
That Gascon is nominated in the female category is still absolutely absurd, but this pervert does have some valid points.
I saw a comment on X about Brian Reidl that made the observation that it appeared to them that a lot of late MtF transitions coincide with their female children hitting puberty. I have no idea if there is some correlation but seems worth looking at.
There used to be a lot of these "intrepid reporter uncovers attractive female costar and government corruption in Third World dictatorship" movies. It's amazing how we used to lionize journalists. I blame Watergate. Like most human endeavors "The Year..." was a flash in the pan but I'm glad Peter Weir had an eye for talent and catalyzed the careers of these future Hollywood heavyweights.
Victor/Victoria and Tootsie were credible films because they followed the iron logic of sexual dimorphism: gender is not detached from biological sex. I'm remembering Dabney Coleman's hilarious line in the penultimate scene, "No wonder she didn't like me!"
A current Linda Hunt would have her distinctive humanity erased. She would not be allowed to exist. Her parents would have her pumped full of T and get her breasts removed.
Now they are cutting away part of Crocodile Dundee for the new release. The part where he hits on, and is hit on by, a transvestite in a bar. Until the taxi driver tells him it's a man. Then he grabs the transvestite's testicles to be sure, and then leaves him.
The scene is cut not because it's a transvestite tricking a clueless man into thinking he's a woman, but because Dundee rejected him for it.
It's absurd, when the rest of the movie is full of leftist propaganda. Because they are in Australia's outback there must be Aborigines, natch! And Dundee dances with them around the campfire at night. So spiritual! In reality, these are people who sleep on car roads, and in parking lots where cars should drive. The government even makes warning infomercials about this on TV.
Naturally Dundee takes the woman from an arrogant rich White man. Poor is good, rich is bad. He is friends with the swarthy driver. In the end, he and the woman talk across the crowd in the subway station and can't reach each other. Two or three men pass on their messages through the crowd. One of them, the one who talks to the woman, is a Black. Part of the constant drive to make women feel that it's normal to talk to a Black man. So you have a scene where a Black tells a White woman "What do you want?" with a demanding voice.
I guess that evens out the fact that the mugger in the "This is a knife!" scene is Black. The propaganda wasn't finished yet. (Just like in Friends, with all its leftist messaging about homosexuals and non-Whites, they would still say Indians, Gypsy, Eskimo, and Phoebe would still be weirded out when Chandler acted too feminine.)
In 2016 both Emmy awards for regular series actors went to men who were playing women: The lead went to Jeffrey Tambor who was playing a transgender woman in Transparent, while supporting went to Louie Anderson for playing Zach Galifianakis' mother in Baskets. Please note that Anderson's character was born a woman; the producers of the series (Galifianakis and Louis CK) had a difficult time casting the character.
As they were brainstorming, CK asked Galifianakis to verbalize how he pictured the mother sounding and as he did the voice CK responded, "Oh, like Louie Anderson". It helped that Anderson, despite being a man, was about the least-masculine man in show business who wasn't openly gay or trans. As an aside, Tambor's daughter on his show was Gaby Hoffmann, who lacks femininity, even in her real life; I think it's the eyebrows which she refuses to groom.
TLDR: Jeffrey Tambor and Louie Anderson both won actor Emmys in 2016; Tambor for playing a man pretending to be a woman and Anderson for playing an actual woman. These were on different shows.
Anderson's Life With Louie was a pretty good Saturday morning kid's cartoon back in the 90s. And his turn as host of Family Feud revived the show a bit. I always cheered for the guy because with that bat-face even if he hadn't been fat he would have still been salvageably ugly so his success in show business was something heartening.
I loved Louie Anderson in Baskets. He looked like my sister's twin. I sent her lots of tweets of his picture to my sister, with the question " Are you sure you don't need to diet? ", obviously I don't care for her.
Tootsie is a relic of its time (who remembers daytime soaps well enough to send them up?) but it does have funny moments.
Hoffman was reasonably well cast in my view as he’s at least short and slim.
Last year’s Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy is also short but has big eyes and delicate features that Hoffman lacks. He was a very well-cast transvestite in 2005’s ‘Breakfast on Pluto’ which is largely forgotten.
That girl’s got moxie!
And spunk?
I really think that even the devout, sanctimonious progressive left realizes this is the wrong time to have this type of win. I don’t think the “surfacing” of their social media comments is a fluke at the 11th hour.
As a Republican, I found myself cheering for the Gascon win. I thought it would highlight perfectly the crazy and why so many swung to Trump. My joy has been denied :). Jumping the gun, but it’s pretty obvious they won’t win.
Exactly. To burn Hollywood down anti-lefters just need to encourage and cheer for Hollywood as they take each further communist step towards the abyss.
Just wait for their film openly celebrating pedophilia. Its coming. No one will watch it but it is coming.
“I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler,” she wrote, “but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black people to be monkeys without rights and consider policemen to be assassins. They’re all wrong.” That's as perceptive a comment about the case as I've ever seen. Unfortunately the classic format of the cancellation article still works: early in the article you say the tweets are racist/sexist/homophobic and quote horrified reactions to them, at the bottom of the article you quote the tweets themselves.
> I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler
.
I'm outraged that Gascon defiled the memory of George Floyd, whose sacrifice marked a turning point for the causes of racial progress and restorative justice. I defy anyone to link to a credible source -- not the Right Wing Echo Chamber!! -- showing that Mr. Floyd was either a "drug addict" or a "swindler." Black Lives Matter!
.
That would be my contribution to the Comments section of Ms. Yuan's article, were I a Washington Post subscriber.
You had me going there
"Monkeys without rights"? Do regular monkeys have rights?
"The Monkees" did, of course.
Sometimes the articles never quote them, and you have to go some foreign site like the Daily Mail to find out what was actually said.
I’m betting a fine-toothed-comb through the opinions of even a few randomly chosen Hollywood stars could unearth plenty of wrongthink.
Perhaps this should become someone’s paid position at the academy!
I haven't watched an Academy Award show since about 1979 when I was in college and have watched probably no more than twenty new films since 1991 when I was married. Hollywood is an institution that is anti-conservative and supportive of every degenerate lifestyle and attitude in human history. For instance, about twenty years ago Hollywood foisted on the populace "Brokeback Country" about a couple of queer cowboys. It won some Academy Awards. Sorry, I'm not interested. If the fires of Los Angeles reached Hollywood, the world would be better off.
By the way, I thought the most novel part of "Victor, Victoria" was goody-two-shoes Julie Andrews exposing her very beautiful breasts at the film's ending. I wonder if she thinks it worth it now that she approaches ninety.
There always has to be one person who is too cool for school. Why comment on a field that one has zero interest in. And the main characters in Brokeback Mountain were sheepherders.
lol. Shut up, whiner.
It makes a difference that they fucked sheep rather than cows?
Getting the story wrong again does not help make a point.
Pretending that it makes a difference that the disgusting perverts were involved with sheep rather than cows made no point at all.
If one has not seen the movie, then one is just repeating someone else's talking point. Getting the details of the movie incorrect means that one is too lazy to spend a minute to look up the details. One reflect poorly on the poster and show that their POV is worthless.
I have certainly not seen the movie and have no interest in doing so. That doesn't mean that I am unqualified to have an opinion on it. Why would I need to watch "Pink Flamingos" in order to have an opinion on the depiction of some other pervert eating dog feces?
What Brokeback Perverts is is not a secret and, again, pretending that it makes a difference that the disgusting perverts pictured in it were involved with sheep rather than cows is nonsense.
Sailer, it seems your obsession with autogynephilic transexuals is because you suffered a lot of bullying at the hands of Martine Rothblatt when you studied with her.
Him.
No one gives a fuck. Hollywood is dead.
It deserves to die but refuses just like The Terminator.
"The peak of 1980s trangenderism was ultra-WASP lesbian dwarf Linda Hunt winning the 1982 Best Supporting Actress award for playing the half-white-half-Asian dwarf Billy Kwan who is Mel Gibson’s photographer in The Year of Living Dangerously. Note that Hunt’s Oscar went to her actual sex. Voters back then didn’t pretend she was a different sex. Linda Hunt was really good."
Linda Hunt also gives off some masculine energy. If you look at her, she could actually almost "pass" for being a man, sort of. She certainly did in Arnold's Kindergarten Cop. One had to glance twice to realize "oh wait, she IS a woman and not a crossdressing man." Perhaps combind with her being vertically challenged (as well as her mannish looking face) contributed to this overall vibe.
Linda was an exception to the norm of Andrews/Streisand/Hoffman play acting (where everyone's in on the joke). Hunt just actually looked like a dude, and perhaps there were people who actually thought she was for awhile.
Androgen uptake issues are pretty strange. Maybe we could study them and get some actual insights into human sexuality. But then the data might lead into some Here-Be-Dragons areas of neurology and genetics and we'd have to nuke all the research from orbit.
I also agree that was going on in the 1980s was not in any way 'transgender'. There was never a question that "Tootsie" wasn't a guy pretending to be a girl in the same "fish out of water" vein as "Trading Places", for example.
But you know what? That's where it starts. The whole LG's on camera in the early 70's just started out as comical jokey harmless characters. With the onset of AIDS during the 80's, suddenly they were elevated to "victims", and couldn't be made fun of, which continues pretty much to the present day. In it's own way, crossdressing films such as Tootsie paved the way for the present day, where T's aren't to be questioned, much less ridiculed or made fun of. Even though admittedly the vast majority of people weren't consciously thinking about transgenderism as an actual thing in the early 80's.
I believe Linda Hunt had a big role 40 years ago in Merchant and Ivory's "The Bostonians," Henry James' satire on his sister's proto-lesbian circle of highbrow women. She'd be very well cast in that.
Christopher Reeve was in "The Bostonians" as well.
That was a fun book to read about. Dude basically mocks all the New England cultural elite of the era and his career sinks as a result.
I tried reading it and got about a third of the way through. Sadly, Henry James is a bit of an acquired taste for the 21st-century reader.
😅🤣😂🙂🙃😂🤣😅🙃🙂😅🤣😂🙂🙃
What is truly remarkable is that most of his Tweets were very accurate. 😎
And nobody in Hollywood, not a single notable person, anywhere in the press, has made the simple statement (even after the obligatory throat-clearing):
"Her [sic.] views on issues are totally irrelevant to the movie's merits of those of her [sic.] acting performance."
There are certainly powerful sexual eccentrics by the dozen in Hollywood, and Hollywood lefties worship at the altar of Saint George F., but I was under the impression that there wasn't a lot of sympathy for the Muslims as there are none in the business. Quelle surprise.
Hollywood isn't hyperventilating about Gaza? That's not my impression.
That Gascon is nominated in the female category is still absolutely absurd, but this pervert does have some valid points.
I saw a comment on X about Brian Reidl that made the observation that it appeared to them that a lot of late MtF transitions coincide with their female children hitting puberty. I have no idea if there is some correlation but seems worth looking at.
Nasal inoculation via menstruation?
There used to be a lot of these "intrepid reporter uncovers attractive female costar and government corruption in Third World dictatorship" movies. It's amazing how we used to lionize journalists. I blame Watergate. Like most human endeavors "The Year..." was a flash in the pan but I'm glad Peter Weir had an eye for talent and catalyzed the careers of these future Hollywood heavyweights.
Victor/Victoria and Tootsie were credible films because they followed the iron logic of sexual dimorphism: gender is not detached from biological sex. I'm remembering Dabney Coleman's hilarious line in the penultimate scene, "No wonder she didn't like me!"
A current Linda Hunt would have her distinctive humanity erased. She would not be allowed to exist. Her parents would have her pumped full of T and get her breasts removed.
Now they are cutting away part of Crocodile Dundee for the new release. The part where he hits on, and is hit on by, a transvestite in a bar. Until the taxi driver tells him it's a man. Then he grabs the transvestite's testicles to be sure, and then leaves him.
The scene is cut not because it's a transvestite tricking a clueless man into thinking he's a woman, but because Dundee rejected him for it.
It's absurd, when the rest of the movie is full of leftist propaganda. Because they are in Australia's outback there must be Aborigines, natch! And Dundee dances with them around the campfire at night. So spiritual! In reality, these are people who sleep on car roads, and in parking lots where cars should drive. The government even makes warning infomercials about this on TV.
Naturally Dundee takes the woman from an arrogant rich White man. Poor is good, rich is bad. He is friends with the swarthy driver. In the end, he and the woman talk across the crowd in the subway station and can't reach each other. Two or three men pass on their messages through the crowd. One of them, the one who talks to the woman, is a Black. Part of the constant drive to make women feel that it's normal to talk to a Black man. So you have a scene where a Black tells a White woman "What do you want?" with a demanding voice.
I guess that evens out the fact that the mugger in the "This is a knife!" scene is Black. The propaganda wasn't finished yet. (Just like in Friends, with all its leftist messaging about homosexuals and non-Whites, they would still say Indians, Gypsy, Eskimo, and Phoebe would still be weirded out when Chandler acted too feminine.)
> Note that Hunt’s Oscar went to her actual sex.
In 2016 both Emmy awards for regular series actors went to men who were playing women: The lead went to Jeffrey Tambor who was playing a transgender woman in Transparent, while supporting went to Louie Anderson for playing Zach Galifianakis' mother in Baskets. Please note that Anderson's character was born a woman; the producers of the series (Galifianakis and Louis CK) had a difficult time casting the character.
As they were brainstorming, CK asked Galifianakis to verbalize how he pictured the mother sounding and as he did the voice CK responded, "Oh, like Louie Anderson". It helped that Anderson, despite being a man, was about the least-masculine man in show business who wasn't openly gay or trans. As an aside, Tambor's daughter on his show was Gaby Hoffmann, who lacks femininity, even in her real life; I think it's the eyebrows which she refuses to groom.
TLDR: Jeffrey Tambor and Louie Anderson both won actor Emmys in 2016; Tambor for playing a man pretending to be a woman and Anderson for playing an actual woman. These were on different shows.
But this time the actor is transgender not just playing the opposite sex.
Anderson's Life With Louie was a pretty good Saturday morning kid's cartoon back in the 90s. And his turn as host of Family Feud revived the show a bit. I always cheered for the guy because with that bat-face even if he hadn't been fat he would have still been salvageably ugly so his success in show business was something heartening.
I loved Louie Anderson in Baskets. He looked like my sister's twin. I sent her lots of tweets of his picture to my sister, with the question " Are you sure you don't need to diet? ", obviously I don't care for her.
Tootsie is a relic of its time (who remembers daytime soaps well enough to send them up?) but it does have funny moments.
Hoffman was reasonably well cast in my view as he’s at least short and slim.
Last year’s Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy is also short but has big eyes and delicate features that Hoffman lacks. He was a very well-cast transvestite in 2005’s ‘Breakfast on Pluto’ which is largely forgotten.
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