This guy just keeps getting more and more wonderful ❤️
Pascal has been a vocal ally of the transgender community, frequently using his platform to advocate for trans rights. At the UK premiere of “Thunderbolts,” he wore a shirt reading “Protect the Dolls,” a term of endearment for transgenderism.
I wonder if the author of the article realizes “transgenderism” is a right-wing, anti-trans term?
EDIT: ah, it looks like the author of that blog is probably anti-trans and holds other right-wing views: https://old.reddit.com/r/blankies/comments/rcczql/can_someone_give_me_context_for_the_film_blog/
Considering dolls is a term applied only to trans women, he should have just said “a term of endearment for trans women”. The only reason he didn’t is because he’s anti-trans, and maybe he doesn’t even understand that “dolls” is a term specific to trans women, or that trans men even exist, a lot of anti-trans bigots are obsessed with trans women and think the only trans people are trans women; there are estimated to be equal numbers of trans men as trans women, they just don’t get the same attention.
The bathroom debate shows this mindset, anti-trans activist want trans women to use men’s restrooms, but they aren’t thinking about the fact that those same laws and policies force trans men into women’s restrooms, leading to this kind of situation:
So the anti-trans movement claims they are keeping men out of women’s restrooms, while doing exactly the opposite.
I think the anti-trans movement wants to claim that the entire idea of trans people is ideologically driven, but they have it in reverse - the gender binary and anti-trans movement is ideologically driven, while the position that trans people exists and should have gender-affirming care is based on actual empirical evidence. The science shows reality is much more complicated than the gender binary, and that being trans is biologically determined, genetically inherited, and part of natural human variation throughout our history as a species.
So it seems acknowledging the reality and gender of trans people is not so much ideologically driven as much as it is more aligned with reality than the status quo of assigning gender according to a model of binary sex based an a quick inspection of genitals at birth, which we know is ideologically driven. The only reason to reject the undisputed science is for religious and political reasons, there is no actual debate or ambiguity about the science. Every single major medical and scientific association endorses gender affirming care for minors and adults, there is a firm consensus on this. These organizations are typically conservative, not “woke”, and they only support those treatments because they are the only known effective treatments of gender dysphoria.
The anti-trans movement has more in common with young earth creationism, the anti-vaxx movement, and other anti-science movements, which are often politically motivated and intersect with conservative forms of Christianity. These are truly ideologically based movements, and they support views of reality based not on what is empirically demonstrated but rather based on a dogmatic interpretation of religious texts.
For example, Matt Walsh’s anti-trans film What is a Woman was compared to antivax films like VAXXED or the anti-evolution film Expelled!.
there are estimated to be equal numbers of trans men as trans women, they just don’t get the same attention.
And this is a stunning example of the power of male privilege.
anti-trans activist want trans women to use men’s restrooms, but they aren’t thinking about the fact that those same laws and policies force trans men women’s restrooms, leading to this kind of situation
Oh, that’s the point.
See, it’s about men protecting women from bad things. Not about women feeling uncomfortable.
It’s the same as the justification for Christian rejection of empathy (as opposed to more reserved compassion): the undertone is “women are more vulnerable to ‘falling for’ the empathee’s sin.”
Womens’ perspectives may be where the thoughts stop, but that is no accident.
I want to see it… But imagine if pirates made it so accessible it was easier to view without buying it. Saturated to the point YouTube recommends the full episodes.
Watching/playing/acquiring media without paying for it only sends the message that the demand is there; it’s just that the anti-piracy enforcement schemes haven’t been perfected yet.
If 100 million people watch this show on day one, but only 1 million paid to do so, the question is going to be “How can we force those other 99 million people to pay for this?” But if zero people watch this show, the immediate red flag will be “People used to love Harry Potter? Why aren’t they watching it now?”
You want to show that Joanne Rowling’s bigotry isn’t to be tolerated? You don’t show her that her content is still wanted; you shut her out completely.
Counter point. If there’s a drop in subscriptions and a spike on piracy after they release, they can conclude that the best approach is to drop the show and J. Terf Rowling.
That, and have all the discourse of the show be around her bigotry.
I have to interest on the show
Counter point. If there’s a drop in subscriptions and a spike on piracy after they release, they can conclude that the best approach is to drop the show and J. Terf Rowling.
Media execs don’t see piracy as an economics or social issue. They believe it’s a technological issue and they just need to find the right silver bullet to force you to watch the content that they know you want to watch (why would you be pirating it otherwise?) while paying them for it.
No corporation has seen an increase of piracy of their content and thought anything other than “We need stricter anti-piracy measures.”
The company doesn’t care about popularity lmfao. They only care about money
Lots of media are popular that didn’t make money, but there’s no media that made lots of money that wasn’t also popular.
Money directly correlates with popularity when talking about films/books/television. Why do you think, for example, that there was only one Eragon movie despite there being four books? And yet Twilight also had four books, but had five movies made?
You seriously think the suits spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars making movies or tv shows don’t care about what’s popular? Then why the hell are they remaking Harry Potter?
They track torrent file downloads so they can send threatening DMCA takedown letters to people that don’t use VPNs to obfuscate their IPs. Even if you do use a VPN, they may not know who you are, but they can count the download.
The Last of Us spoilers
What are they gonna do? Kill him off?
!I he shows up throught the second game in flashbacks, I think he will be done after this season, unless they keep bringing him back…but after this? He is 100% gone lol!<
FYI your spoiler tag didn’t work on this comment. Also I heard they’re adapting Last of Us Part II into 2 seasons of the show, since it’s so much longer plot-wise.
Odd, I see it blacked out on my side. Apologies to all.
I don’t see Pedro even working for HBO going forward. He is attacking another HBO show, and you know it’s all about bottom line. Could be wrong.
Regardless, Pedro is the man.
This pedro pascal guy seems like kind of a good dude man
I support this man, and his ideas.
