Uh, folks, irrespective of how you think Naughty Dog handled the trans character (I haven't got there yet myself but am semi-spoiled) I guarantee you they embargoed it not bc they were afraid of outrage from trans ppl at a problematic depiction, but afraid of bros mad he exists
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @the_moviebob
If you need any proof to back up this tweet just look at the reaction gamers had when they saw Abby and assumed that a buff woman must be actually trans
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @the_moviebob
She spent her entire life dedicated to dogged vengeance and also vocal training to sound like Laura Bailey
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @the_moviebob
The simple fact that this would be a cis actor playing a trans character and that that would automatically launch a deserved backlash is why I never believed this, all the details of the story aside
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I always wonder that when Hollywood casts cis actors to play trans characters, they virtually never cast a character of the person's actual gender, but instead, make a big show of how this cis man can play a trans woman. I wonder how reaction would go if it went the other way.
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The other way how? Having a cis woman play a trans woman? That has in fact happened a bunch of times
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
The highest profile example is Felicity Huffman in Transamerica
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Also, old school sitcoms going for the trans panic narrative usually did so by casting a cis woman of above average height as the trans woman The infamous IT Crowd episode by Glinner did this
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
See, also, the 2004 CSI episode where Lindsay Crouse (y'all know her from Buffy) played their villainous trans woman.
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Lisa Edelstein had a recurring role as a trans woman on Ally McBeal, which is why on House there's this running gag about House spreading a rumor that the reason Cuddy is infertile and trying to adopt is that she's trans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
That makes me proud that I never watched house.
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Replying to @TellerGrim @arthur_affect and
I watched a fuckton of House because I'm an easy lay for any kind of Sherlock Holmes pastiche. But the regularity with which it indulged in casual transphobia for the sake of a cheap laugh or shock value derails what would otherwise be perfectly adequate junk food TV.
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