Thread by @yokatykatikate

Thread: HERE'S WHAT *JUST* HAPPENED AT THE NY POST. Daniella Greenbaum wrote a piece asserting that ScarJo withdrew from an upcoming role as a trans man after being bullied by a mob of leftist cultural hegemonists. (Not linking it you can find it if you like that kind of thing.)

1. ScarJo is FINE. She's a GOOD actress with GREAT management. She's not a unicorn. She's better than I am (Gotcha, trolls! I know you were about to ask, "Oh yeah how many times have YOU been nominated for a Golden Globe?" Answer: 0 bc I don't work with pedophiles.) #MatchPoint

2. But stop it with the fangirl myth that artists are demigods. I don't know if you're up on the literature, but the stars? THEY'RE JUST LIKE US.
True: Nobody else can play Tex Gill the way ScarJo would have.
False: Nobody else can play a Tex Gill AS WELL as ScarJo would have.

3. I guarantee that there are at least a thousand trans actors who could play the shit out of Tex. The talent pool doesn't lack for depth. It lacks for freaking stairs and stands. & to the question of "can cis women play trans men?" Sure! BUT SHOULD THEY? Well, that depends...

4. ... were you able to get the 1.21 Gigawatts you needed to bring the Delorean back to the future or are you still waiting for lightning to strike the clock tower, trying not to see your mom in her bra? It's 2018, lady. The conversation around representation has evolved...

5. ... & the question of whether or not an actress is capable of a role is separate from the equally important, albeit more recent question of whether she is ENTITLED to that role. You know what else was mainstream entertainment not so long ago? You know. I don't have to say it.

6. The worst part of DG's piece, for me, is this line: "This movie, if it gets made at all, won’t have the high-profile allure and the phenomenal acting of Scarlett Johansson. How this helps the transgender community is anybody’s guess." WOW GREAT POINT DG.

7. It might have helped if ScarJo had played Tex. It might've helped us cis folks feel woke, w/o challenging our bias. It might've helped us feel comfortably informed about trans issues, while remaining completely disengaged from the trans community. Damn...

8. We could've "been trans allies" for $10.75 plus Raisinets! Flashback: How many of us were moved by Boys Don't Cry? How many of us were proud of Swank for that performance? How many of us did a damn thing to stop hate crimes like the one that took Brandon Teena's life?

9. Empower trans artists to tell any story they want, including & especially their own. Cast them. Fund them. Because at the end of the day the people who profit from their pain should be the people who survived it and learned to live alongside it. Anything else is profiteering.

10. & DG, I know u want to identify with ScarJo as another cis woman bullied into stepping down by the outrage mob but the truth is neither of you lost a damn thing this week. She gets a redemption arc & you get a Post column & I get to never read your writing again. #winwinwin