Trans actress wants to play other roles
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-6872...
Interesting question, a trans actress has decided that only playing trans roles is rather limiting. With all the pushing for only trans people to play trans roles, should we be pushing for only non trans actresses to play non trans roles? Or is there actually an argument that says acting is acting and really anyone should be able to play any roles?
Interesting question, a trans actress has decided that only playing trans roles is rather limiting. With all the pushing for only trans people to play trans roles, should we be pushing for only non trans actresses to play non trans roles? Or is there actually an argument that says acting is acting and really anyone should be able to play any roles?
In an ideal world majority groups would not tend to discriminate against or overlook the needs of minority groups, and therefore the minority groups would not need any protection that wasn't also extended in a similar way to the majority.
But the world is not ideal and minority groups are frequently disadvantaged in practice. Consequently we sometimes choose to put in specific protection for those minority groups.
If you look at the protection in isolation it might look unbalanced because it only applies to a minority, but that's the whole bleeding point; only the minority needs the protection so of course it only applies to them.
But the world is not ideal and minority groups are frequently disadvantaged in practice. Consequently we sometimes choose to put in specific protection for those minority groups.
If you look at the protection in isolation it might look unbalanced because it only applies to a minority, but that's the whole bleeding point; only the minority needs the protection so of course it only applies to them.
ATG said:
In an ideal world majority groups would not tend to discriminate against or overlook the needs of minority groups, and therefore the minority groups would not need any protection that wasn't also extended in a similar way to the majority.
But the world is not ideal and minority groups are frequently disadvantaged in practice. Consequently we sometimes choose to put in specific protection for those minority groups.
If you look at the protection in isolation it might look unbalanced because it only applies to a minority, but that's the whole bleeding point; only the minority needs the protection so of course it only applies to them.
Does that view extend to athletes & sports? But the world is not ideal and minority groups are frequently disadvantaged in practice. Consequently we sometimes choose to put in specific protection for those minority groups.
If you look at the protection in isolation it might look unbalanced because it only applies to a minority, but that's the whole bleeding point; only the minority needs the protection so of course it only applies to them.
Mr Pointy said:
ATG said:
In an ideal world majority groups would not tend to discriminate against or overlook the needs of minority groups, and therefore the minority groups would not need any protection that wasn't also extended in a similar way to the majority.
But the world is not ideal and minority groups are frequently disadvantaged in practice. Consequently we sometimes choose to put in specific protection for those minority groups.
If you look at the protection in isolation it might look unbalanced because it only applies to a minority, but that's the whole bleeding point; only the minority needs the protection so of course it only applies to them.
Does that view extend to athletes & sports? But the world is not ideal and minority groups are frequently disadvantaged in practice. Consequently we sometimes choose to put in specific protection for those minority groups.
If you look at the protection in isolation it might look unbalanced because it only applies to a minority, but that's the whole bleeding point; only the minority needs the protection so of course it only applies to them.
The "problem" in sport is a collision between the physical disadvantage women have versus men in most sports versus trans women wishing to be treated as women while typically still having physical advantages over non-trans women. How do you strike a balance between those competing claims? By shouting at each other and refusing to look at the world from the other person's perspective.
See J K Rowling not being arrested for not breaking the law yet somehow defending free speech against an oppressive State as another example of this sort of nonsensical behaviour.
popeyewhite said:
As the Bond producers didn't know 'Tula' was trans you've kind of hit the nail on the head. No one knew, no one complained.
I believe she was somewhat intersex from birth and then headed for female so may even be offensive to trans frothers if she was deemed so. If I were this lass I'd obtain a better agent if the only offers are trans roles.
No idea where the acting - 'authenticity' - offence equation popped up from. It's definitely one of sillier modern afflications.
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