By... expressing opinions and raising questions about art?Apollo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:27 amYou're kidding me? This is just another example of the Over-The-Top Political Correctness that has hypnotized the Left in recent years. SJW's have become the Left Wing equivalent of Right Wing White Supremacists, desperately trying to oppress any speech or artistic expression they disagree with.
Scarlett could easily have gone ahead with the role and gotten her paycheck. The filmmakers would have gotten theirs too, although perhaps with smaller box-office returns.
Making commercial art is an attempt to appeal to an audience. The audience for a movie about a trans character is very likely to have opinions about the representation of trans characters. (I kind of doubt the MAGA crowd was buying tickets in advance for this one.)
This isn't oppression by any stretch of imagination. No one stopped them from doing what they wanted. Instead, it became clear that they weren't going to get a warm buy-in from relevant tastemakers. That's something they surely wanted, but it's not something they can claim to have a right to.
