'Protect the Dolls' - doesn't that just say it all?

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Pedro Pascal has called JK Rowling a 'heinous loser' - lovely. She can add that to 'bitch', 'fascist' and all the other offensive thoughtless nonsense that has been thrown at her

He was recently photographed wearing a t shirt that says 'Protect The Dolls'. Apparently 'dolls' is an 'affectionate' term for men who identify as trans within some parts of the LGBTQetc community

If ever we had any doubt that trans women were a sexualized fantasy version of what a woman actually is, doubt no more. How utterly grim

Yes I wish men would stop fucking demanding accommodations from women while expecting so little of their own sex class. 'Ohhhh we couldn't expect MEN to be more inclusive of other men!'

Protect the dolls but not women🙄

Reads more like women being told to be kind again to trans women and to stop rocking the boat, after all these ‘dolls’ are far more pretty than you ugly hags. Media lovies preaching to normal people again.

Are we meant to protect all dolls or just the very pretty ones? What about the ones that even with a huge amount of surgery will never pass?

So Pedro gets a t-shirt that says the quiet part out loud.

Dolls is a weird word for them to use. Dolls are fakes of real girls and women

This is upsetting. She was denouncing pronoun nonsense before…

Protect the dolls is about TiMs. He doesn’t want to protect the TiFs? Where’s his protect the G.I Joe Tshirts?

Exactly. I think blow up dolls, Valley of the Dolls, Andrea Long Chu quotes etc

Ah yes Pedro who has anxiety at events such as promoting his films - which is apparently helped by close physical contact with his young female co stars. How fortunate for him that women are conditioned to accept being pawed at

The slogan gives me the creeps.

Not because of the decades of referring to women as dollybirds to justify the post WW2 ‘back to the home and leave your jobs for the men’. Not even the way that it shored up different pay scales for the same job.

My immediate association is with PD James’ Children of Men. I had a visceral reaction to the scenes where the childless women cared for dolls, taking them out for walks in prams, celebrating their birthdays. It was a large scale immersive fiction to cope with the global catastrophic collapse in fertility and the imminent end of humans as a species.

This is what I’ve been thinking. I was really concerned about her anyway, and realising that he was part of it- makes it extra awful. Poor kid.

His dad was a fertility specialist that stole women’s eggs.

Wow, I didn't know that, just looked it up. Runs in the family then.

You have to ask why the male allies aren’t holding up the signs about welcoming transwomen in their spaces.

Calling a human a 'doll' objectifies, full stop.

They are male names for women they are objectifying: baby doll, blow up doll, sex doll. Dolls are plastic, fake, to be dressed up how you wish.

It speaks volumes that men who dress as women do it as a play thing, to objectify, and make themselves into the doll of what they think a woman should be.

Huh? The point is that if you're going to call someone a loser, you need to be less of a loser than the person you're calling a loser. That's not the case here

All anyone needs to do to scotch the idea of 'dolls' is to make a montage of the 6' beardies, with their jutting jaws & brows and shovels-for-hands, dressed in their baby doll pyjamas.

Then everyone would know who we're talking about.

@OuterSpaceCadet ‘“dolls” eh. I’m pretty sure there’s quite a lot of transwomen out there who wouldn’t get called this’

Chucky?

Exactly. You could say the same about “bitch”.

I know he's very famous, but this just smacks of him being a bit desperate to stay cool and relevant as he's getting older, and being willing to put other people down in order to do so. Not a good look really.

Exactly!

Ah thanks both, she was great in Game of Thrones. That's a shame she's been bullied and abused online. That would be a whole other thread though; about the misogynistic, sexist and frankly, creepy behaviour of male gamers and the gaming "community" as a whole.

It's not a surprise then that's she struggling with her identity and also autistic. Seems to go hand in hand; something Hilary Cass discusses at length in her Cass report. This movement is so sexist and awful but also harmful to vulnerable young people.

Someone up thread got it right; he can support his younger sibling without attacking women's rights. That he is choosing to do so is very telling and also disappointing. Men need to accept a wider spectrum of manhood and masculinity, not push it onto women. Dress, wear, be whatever you like but don't force others to have to do something they aren't comfortable with.

His father fled the US in the middle of the investigation, never prosecuted.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-11-30-mn-8788-story.html

Pedro seems to have been quite disturbed by the whole situation. "It was a period of great fear,” he said in Spanish. “I grew up with my family in the U.S., and one day to the next, there was no longer a home to return to. Suddenly, the idea of the safe nest had disappeared. It was shocking because, in the previous years, I took for granted the privileged life we had in California.” https://people.com/all-about-pedro-pascal-parents-8422849

Blame Elvis, he probably started it.
Star Wars vs Potter, please.

Imagine if women started going around wearing t shirts saying 'protect women' in the context of this conversation. There was a near collective combustion at 'adult human female'.

Thank you, I needed some levity. I really try not to comment on peoples appearance because one should treat others how they wish to be treated. I just wish there was greater self-awareness and self deprecation in this whole situation. I think the trans people wouldn’t come off as so ‘mentally I’ll’ and ‘unreasonable’ if they could laugh at themselves a little.

I'm adding this image which I first saw on MN a few days ago and think it needs another airing here