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/
Good spot! Trans+ would have been better
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!.
I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge #occupotty
This pedro pascal guy seems like kind of a good dude man
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A trans sister for one, so it would make sense he’s not a fan of the TERF queen?
Joanne’s really milking this cash cow for all it’s worth, and then some. Guess that’s your only option when you’re a one-hit wonder, though. Must not have stumbled across any new content she’s interested in plagiarizing.
CouLd you point me to what original she plagiarized? I need some light reading material and this sounds promising.
Here is a pretty decent list: https://elftor.medium.com/harry-potter-and-the-possible-plagiarism-of-one-j-rowling-c19f1b05595c
I’m not a fan of Harry Potter, and don’t like Rowling, but I read that whole damn essay and was not at all convinced. Half the examples could be said to be plagiarising each other by the standard they’re using. They say at the start the coincidences are too strong to be attributed to tropes, but I really disagree with that. Almost everything they list are common tropes, many even outside magical wizard settings. Mean adoptive family? Did she also plagiarise Cinderella?
Sure, her books generally aren’t original themes, but to say they’re so similar that they are direct plagiarism is a real stretch in my opinion. Especially when you have to list like 30 books that have one or two things in common each, and mostly in a general sense.
I never thought she was a plagiarist, just a hack.
I think they’re referring to A Wizard of Earthsea? It’s been on my reading list for a few years now, but I still haven’t gotten around to it.
That’s not really similar but i recommend reading it. I loved it as a child
one-hit wonder,
Yeah, no kidding, I had tried everything else she did before she started getting really noisy, none of it was remotely interesting.
Stopped me from buying the books for my kids quickly enough, though.
HBO previously did a adaption of The Casually Vacancy. I never watched it but I read the book which is terrible.
She’s a terrible person, but saying she’s a one-hit wonder is unfair. Here’s a list of famous and acclaimed authors who only wrote one novel. And she wrote several, even if all in the same series. Criticize for for her true faults: being a hateful hag that makes the world a worse place and isn’t worth the O2 she consumes.
I don’t think the existence of other one-hit wonders affects her status as one-hit wonder, but I’ll accept the argument that she wrote ~7 popular books.
i’ve been a harry potter fan since 2000. i went to multiple leakycons and pottercast tapings. i posted on leaky. i went to midnight shows. i discovered starkid bc of it. i used to pay international shippings for the uk books. hp saved my life before i was out of the closet.
i would have been so excited for this if it happened 15 years ago. now? i just don’t care. i want it to go away. i’m much more interested in the twilight anniversary. hp is just go away heat now.
also anyone who is looking for an alternative; chris colfer’s land of stories series is AMAZING.
An even better anniversary thats happening rn is the 20th anniversary of Revenge Of The Sith. Hard to believe that episode 3 is 20 years old.
I felt SO OLD in the cinema with my kid…
The cgi still looks good which is nuts. I wish they were showing it around me. I 100% would’ve gone.
more like Bae-dro Pascal amirite
daddy pascal
I wasn’t gonna watch it anyways but if Pedro says don’t, I sure as heck ain’t!
I love Pedro Pascal.
So many queers grew up on Harry Potter. If you still cherish the series from before the author apparently had a stroke, and can’t give it up, you can at least do society a favour by sailing the high seas (pirate it).
Harry Potter is already dead to me. Fuck JKR.
There are… other ways
I assume you mean piracy, but I think you misunderstood. I have no desire to give JKRs works any of my attention and I regret my past love of HP. She is a disgusting bigot and her legacy is forever tainted for me. I’m simply not interested.
Arent you guys sick of the same 4 franchises? Marvel, Star wars, Lord of the rings, Harry Potter.
It’s a bit unfair to rope LOTR into this, it only has a single spin-off series which is pretty great. Which is pretty great if you’re not a fascist or hardcore nerd of the books. And hardcore nerds only have “fun” criticism discussing how the story spanning 3000 years is being adapted.
Mmmmmm. LOTR has 6 movies running 18hrs theatrical, 22hrs extended cut.
Multiple anime, TV show, comics, graphic novels, books, spin offs and more…over done. Over cooked. Trite.
Star wars has 9 mainline movies spanning 20hrs.
Multiple anime, TV show, comics, graphic novels, books, spin offs and more…Disney is literally wearing this franchise as a skin suit to keep it going.
The Marvel Infinity Saga core movies, 19 hours…etc…blah blah blah…Disney. Morning Erection…something something, cum daddy.
Haha forgot about the Hobbit and didn’t know about the anime. Comics, well, whatever. But I don’t think it can be compared to the constant marketing and big screen content of the other franchises. Tolkien estate is pretty careful not to turn out endless pulp.
Okay I’ll give it to you. But there are still significant and painful advertisement campaigns that are beating us over the head with the other 3 franchises
I actually think often about how franchises are (miss)managed and how IP laws suck and should work. Just watched “Dune Prophecy” yesterday, which I avoided so far because it’s partially based on Frank Herbert’s hack writer of a son’s novel (it was ok though). Besides the profit motive, there it seems more like a psychological need to bastardize the franchise. Marvel was never serious so I don’t mind it much, it’s just annoying. Star Wars sequels suck but again, never was serious literature. I do hate the new Star Trek Kelvin timeline with a burning passion though because Star Trek was a cultural touchstone.
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.
Remember family guys skits of jk Rowling, they kinda predicted her current behavior, one of them was Peter "reminiscing "now problematic jk Rowling writing, and the other
I wasn’t going to watch it anyway, because I’m not a child.
I’m way ahead of this because I absolutely HATE the originals because of how often they play them on TV. The transphobic writer of the original wanting to do a do-over most likely because the original cast spoke out against her is also real atrocious as well.
Wait that’s why they’re doing this? What a clown she is.
she wanted to rewrite the characthers, probably to her “terf beliefs” and people already indicated in the past her books were already what she currently believes in, just very subtle.
Oh God… She’s absolutely going to create a monster that pretends to be a human as some kind of lazy “Trans Bad” parable…
This is going to be the fucking Heathers Reboot all over again
No idea if it’s true, but it’s a rumor I’ve heard that sounds plausible enough. Can’t speak for all the cast, but I’m fairly certain the main trio have spoken up against her, though.
she probably want different actors, or rewriting to make it look like they cant question her terf. she will be hardpressed to find someone who is an actor and is a terf like her, those actors have largely been expelled from hollywood, and only making shitty christian or anti-woke movies.
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Yeah, I wish there was a way I could meaningfully boycott something which I had no interest in to begin with. But oh well.
Does anyone want anything to do with this?
