Scarlet Johansson Doesn’t Give Two Sh*ts. And Now She is My Hero.
Don’t Erase Me Scarlet!
It’s almost as if some of these basement dwellers have Johansson’s name on Google Alerts, clenching their behinds until each time her name is announced for a new role concerning a character that doesn’t have an obviously ‘white woman’ name. Well here you go you Twitter assassins, another target for your ideological politization/racialization/genderization/make-a-big-dealization of concerns that literally no one gives a crap about.
To back up for one second, Scarlet Johansson has been a strange topic for the PC mob, claiming that she uncoincidentally takes up acting roles that involve portraying a non-white, non-female lead. The biggest flare up was when she was chosen to play Motoko Kusanagi, the lead cybernetic protagonist of the classic Japanese anime film of the same name. Director Rupert Sanders was adapting it as an American live-action and when ScarJo was chosen, there was yellow fire and fury. How dare a white woman be allowed to play a ‘non-white’ role (never mind the fact that the crime fighter is almost 100% android). How did anyone think it ‘ok’ to taint the pure mind’s eye of a Japanese fiction with white skin? It’s 201X people.
In the latest of Scarlet’s crusade to appropriate every and all culture with her acting career, it was recently accounted that she would be playing Dante Gill in the movie “Rub & Tug.” Gill is a historic figure and trans man. The movie seeks to recreate his political legacy in 70/80s Pittsburgh. Naturally, many were not too happy about this casting call.
I… just…can’t. They’re calling this “misgendering” and “erasure” of a marginalized group. They’re using this to attack both ScarJo and the director. They’re just being they.
The absolute cherry on top is CNN’s “article” released earlier today - “These trans actors could have been cast instead of Scarlett Johansson in her new movie." It’s filled with tweets (of course it is) and the greatest irony is that although these actors/actresses could have been cast in Johansson’s stead, simply taking a glance and comparing their headshots with ScarJo’s one (which they used as the main image because they know full well that it would garner exponentially more clicks) provides the perfect and needlessly explained reason why they weren’t cast. None of them have name value. None of them have extensive acting careers. None of them would likely draw big box-office crowds. Try harder all you aspiring ScarJos. And especially you CNN, do better.
But in true strong, independent woman fashion and in celebration of American independence, she responded with the most polite “I don’t give a f*ck” I have ever seen on Twitter.
What really gets me about this, and this is almost pushing me to point of making anti-SJW/anti-radical leftist/anti-cultural marxism posts, is that this type of rhetoric is actually making our society more backwards and bigoted. Instead of pushing for a point where anyone can do anything (i.e. black actors can play white roles, asians can play European ones, etc.), we’re pushing people back in “their place.” Please tell me that you see the disgusting hypocrisy in tweets like this -
Anyway, good for you ScarJo. I’m rooting for you. Don’t let these idiots with nothing more to do than complain about the independent success of others rather than working on and building their own careers get you down. Please play Barack Obama in a future flick and prove to everyone that you can’t be caged because of your gender, race, physical appearance, whatever.
Steem on kids. BTW, this is my favorite response to all of this ridiculous hubbub. Apparently reasoning is radical -
According to these guys and several others on yt, she is transgendered and so is perfect for the part.
You can find videos like this for most celebrities in all fields. I find the evidence pretty compelling. If you look up the word transvestigation and any celebrity name, you will fall down a rabbit hole.
This is bizarrely incredible. The internet never ceases to surprise me.
Think of anyone - politicians,, models, newcasters - pretty much all of them are being transvestigated, and at least 80% make a good case. Sandra Bullock is aptly named for one very good example.
This just demonstrates that Scarlett Johansson is actually the perfect choice for a transgender role. She'll actually bring more attention to their cause than casting one of the suggested transgenders. Firstly she's way better known. Secondly, complaining about her just draws more attention and will more likely bring viewers who wouldn't normally have bothered attending a film like this. Casting a barely known transgender would likely only reach an audience who's interested in something like that.
As for the transgenders, they need to play a role that we wouldn't expect in a high end movie, so that when the movie does well and their gender is announced it will be the talk of Twitter/facebook et al and will fling them into the limelight.
I guess the question is, if it's ours to ask (probably isn't), does the character need to be Asian for some reason? If it's anything like the anime, she plays a police robot who is a badass. Sounds fine so far.
Maybe she should be Japanese because the Japanese are quite an insular society, looking inward and don't quite accept foreigners. It might be unusual to find a non-indigenous Japanese in the police force. But then again, she's a robot. Still, maybe it would be more plausible if the actor was Japanese?
In a movie, should the prime minister of Japan be black? Probably not if you're going to for realism, because there's never been a black PM and it would be quite the cultural shift for there to be one. It would be a point in and of itself.
But it seems quite plausible that Japanese, who though inward looking have a huge cultural awareness of America, should have an American white badass as their robot police Major. Or a black skinned robot, or anyone else.
The main thing is though, life does not imitate art. I think people are just using this moment in the sun to make a point about white cultural dominance in America. Definitely worth asking, does it work that ScarJo was cast? Probably it does in this case.