Ruby Rose Twitter Backlash

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NothingOnTellyAgain · 13/08/2018 12:46

Read this on the BBC earlier

here

She has quit twitter because she got loads of abuse over accepting role of Batwoman who apparently has been a lesbian since 2006 (comic company wanted to increase diversity).

I don't really follow the article, seems twitter are angry for some reason - because she's not a lesbian or because she's gender fluid - not sure and going to google a bit more.

Just seems to me that in recent months, all of the backlash against people doing "minority" roles that are not what they are / ID as are cunty people aka those previously known as women.

This is a GNC woman as far as I can see - why shouldn't she play batwoman? We dont' normally insist on the sexuality of the actor being the same do we? And it seems she is lesbian or bi herself anyway (never heard of her will investigate).

Interesting reaction. I think she looks like she'd make a good batwoman personally from the pics.

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TheCrowFromBelow · 13/08/2018 12:54

I don’t understand this at all.
Surely the whole point of acting is that you are playing a part?!
Where is the twitter backlash against The bloke who plays Thor for not actually being a Norse god?
This is getting nonsensical.

DJLippy · 13/08/2018 12:53

She's defined herself as non-binary and presumably has rejected the label lesbian - despite the fact that she married a woman. A month or so ago the internet said a woman cold not play a butch lesbian because she'd been posthumously transed into a transman. Perhaps people are reacting to this - taken to it's logical extension a non-binary person has no right to play a woman. The world is mental now isn't it?

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NothingOnTellyAgain · 13/08/2018 12:51

From an interview;

" That's what happened to Ruby — she wasn't sure what the word for her feelings were, but she knew she wasn't attracted to the opposite sex. Instead of calling it anything, Ruby simply told her mom that her first boyfriend would probably be a girl.
"I was just worried because I didn't know it was a thing," Ruby told Willie. "I knew how I felt, I knew what I kind of identified as, but the words gay or lesbian, I didn't know anyone else that was gay or lesbian, so I didn't really know how to word it. I was just like, 'I think I should let you know that when I eventually get a boyfriend, it will be a girl.'""

Apparently though she is the "wrong queer actress".

Like I say, seems to be cunty people getting a hammering over not being in the right boxes for xyz these days.

Also if it's all about self ID and everything is fluid, anyone can play anyone, just ID as the relevant things for the period of filming. What you actually ARE is immaterial and illusory.

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QuentinSummers · 13/08/2018 12:49

Oh ffs
Its probs because she describes herself as gender fluid not lesbian
How ridiculous. Especially when she said she was really pleased to see a role model for girls like she was in Batwoman

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