More men
Hooray hooray it’s not just sports, men also get to steal work and fame and money from women in tv shows.
Yasmin Finney is joining the cast of “Doctor Who” as a character named Rose, BBC announced Monday. Her role will debut in 2023, coinciding with the show’s 60th anniversary.
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“If anyone would have told 8-year-old Yasmin that one day she’d be part of this iconic show, I would have never in a million years believed them,” Finney said. “This show has a place in so many people’s hearts, so to be seen as a trans actress by the legend himself Russell, has not only made my year, it’s made my life. I cannot wait to begin this journey and for you all to see how Rose blossoms. Get ready.”
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The casting of Finney, who is transgender, follows the history-making turn by Bethany Black, who was the first openly transgender actor to be cast on “Doctor Who” when she debuted her role as 474 in 2015. Rebecca Root became the first transgender actor to play a Doctor Who companion when she took on the role of Tania Bell in the audio series “Stranded.”
History-making blah blah blah first openly blah blah first transgender blah blah – all tactfully disguising the fact that these are men taking jobs from women, in an industry where most of the jobs go to men already.
I think we can safely assume that there was no 8-year-old Yasmin. Maybe an 8-year-old Jack or something.
And taking the name of a female Dr who character, Rose Tyler, companion to Drs 9 & 10.
Ever since I heard this news I’ve been thinking about how I’m going to explain to my Who fan friends that I’m no longer interested in watching the show. I’m just going to tell them that I find offensive to watch a man on TV ‘acting like a woman’, or what he perceives a woman to be.
Just when I thought Rose couldn’t get more irritating…
I have little issue with men portraying female characters traditionally performed in drag, like Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. I have little issue with adult male voice actors playing female animated characters, such as some of those in Bob’s Burgers. I have little issue with Yasmin Finney pursuing his career as another variety of drag performer. I do wonder, though, in all of these cases, why women couldn’t take those roles, and I don’t think that Yasmin Finney is any more of a woman than John Travolta (who portrayed Edna Turnblad) is. I certainly don’t think it’s “brave” or “groundbreaking” for a man to take a role that could have easily and perhaps more appropriately gone to a woman.
I’m actually reminded of the time, in response to the “Summer of Love”, Big Mouth replaced Missy(?)’s voice actress (who was Jewish) with a black voice actress. Missy is a mixed race Jewish/black character.
Meanwhile Lola, voiced by a male, kept the same voice actor as far as I’m aware (though maybe with the addition of trans shit to the show they changed that as well, dunno, I stopped watching the instance trans anything was shown).
Doctor Who honcho Russell T. Davies (who seems to have organised the casting of Finney) has fully swallowed the Stonewall /Mermaids Kool-Aid.
Not only did he attend the “Whos Queer Now” conference with extremist trans activist Roz Kaveney, Davies also made a public attack on the LGB Alliance, saying to “To cut out the T is to kill.”
https://twitter.com/friendoface/status/1374815871407960068
https://voidifremoved.substack.com/p/smearing-the-lgb-alliance?s=r
All these people who think the latest most progressive most awesome thing is men taking everything from women.
I’ll never get used to it.
“To cut out the T”: say what? How about “To construct something that doesn’t have the T in it in the first place”?
I imagine a big sister who wants to do things for her own needs, but who is required to take little brother along all the time; simply wanting her own activities is reframed as excluding her little brother. It’s ridiculous.
“To cut out the T is to kill”
Big brother is watching you. And you’re required to call him big sister now.
“To cut out the T”: say what? How about “To construct something that doesn’t have the T in it in the first place”?
Davies’ speech repeats the slur that people who disagree with gender self-identification and medicalization of gender-nonconforming children and adolescents are responsible for people’s deaths.
Davies is a good TV writer, but I never liked him as a person. In an interview in “Doctor Who Magazine”, years ago, he called people who disliked reality TV shows “idiots”.
If he wants to defend reality TV, that’s fair enough, but why insult people who disagree with his opinion? And again, why smear people who disagree with his views on “T inclusion” as killers?