Last week, in a perfect reminder of how problematic mainstream feminism can be, it was announced that Scarlett Johansson will play Dante “Tex” Gill, a real-life transgender man in the 1970s who ran a string of massage parlors in Pittsburgh, in the upcoming film “Rub & Tug.” This latest casting decision has sparked massive outrage, with people pointing out that it’s “problematic for Johansson, a cisgender woman, to portray Gill on screen” and that it has “never been ethically or politically justifiable for cisgender people to play trans roles.”
Last week, in a perfect reminder of how problematic mainstream feminism can be, it was announced that Scarlett Johansson will play Dante “Tex” Gill, a real-life transgender ...