Actor in lead role of 'Emilia Perez' has received nomination for Best Actress

[Grammarnut]

Karla Garcia Gascon has been nominated for Best Actress. Karla is a transwoman. This thread has been taken down twice. Hat trick, anyone?

Some anger after comparing their treatment to the Holocaust: https://x.com/juanpabrenis/status/1883725264854897007

Sorry, haven't seen much commentary on this posted in English yet.

English translation of what Gascón said:

"Today someone asked me if I thought that there was an orchestrated smear campaign against my nomination and Emilia Pérez. It’s more than obvious that we have a big problem staking humanity once again.
Beware with glossing over hate speech, that’s how Germany started and we ended up with concentration camps. Beware with laughing the jokes reader who pretend to cut off our rights, beware with buying into the fear. Beware because the ones laughing, are to be the most affected ones tomorrow.
Cause/effect"

@tiddletoddles and the point of course is that no one minds them acting or getting prizes; they just shouldn’t be given women’s prizes. That means one more women bumped off the podium, as in sports when trans identifying men compete as women.

Women have had to fight so hard for their places at the top table, to have their sports and positions recognised. For those achievements now simply to be taken by biological men is unfair and enraging.

Do you think I could identify as a starring actress, and demand to be nominated for an Oscar? After all, that's how it works, isn't it?

I might identify as a dog and demand to win crufts

FURRY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!

Absolute joke... I stopped listening when they managed to talk about the protests in Iran without mentioning women. They're awful. Maybe it shouldn't but it still surprised me such old fashioned, unashamed sexism still exists. And they're supposed to be progressive.

Men who 'become' women don't stop believing that women should defer to them or that men are entitled to what they want.

There's always a tweet...

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/karla-sof-gasc-n-racist-233406963.html

We've been busy discussing the ins and outs for the past few days on the Gascón/Cannes thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5083078-and-the-winner-of-the-cannes-best-actress-award-is?page=6&reply=141841416

That is not how the Holocaust started.

The Nazis were a bunch of racist thugs right from their inception

Well personally I'd have had the actress who plays Rita (ep's lawyer) in the best actress category as hers seems to be the linchpin role.