'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

Have any of the original #posters taken down their posts? Or are they still full on holding the PTD tag?

Cambridge is incredibly woke - the head of the so called femsoc denounced the supreme court ruling and went on one of the tantrums protest marches with signs saying something like ' protect your transisters, not just your cisters' or something like that. To quote Babyshambles, clever ain't wise.

To all those saying it comes from the 1970s - my long departed dear old Grandpa (born in 1910 and a true cockney) used to call my Grandma "Doll" as a term of endearment. It was a happy memory for me until I read this thread 😅

His brother, presumably.

I remember 'doll' being used for women/girls long before the arrival of 'dollies' and 'dolly-bird' in the late 60s. As with 'bird' (from the medieval 'burd', a maiden) It does not refer to men in frocks and never has and it has also mainly been patronising e.g.'dolly bird', passing through meaning 'sweetheart', 'mistress', 'slut', 'silly woman' at various times. Appears c 1550, and Doll Tearsheet (the prostitute in Henry IV Pt 1 where it is being used to suggest a) her name is Dorothy and b) she is someone's mistress and/or a sluttish woman) is an example. 'Doll' was a diminutive of Dorothy/Dorothea (which still appears in the diminutive Dolly for those names). English frequently substitutes 'l' for 'r' in diminutives e.g. Hal for Henry/Harold (which also appears in said play - Prince Hal).
The only sense that 'protect the dolls' can refer to TiMs is that they are like child's toys, not real, made-up, facsimiles - it's deeply sexist on several levels towards women, too.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/05/protect-the-dolls-is-trans-activism-at-its-creepiest/

Julie Burchill in Spiked

Poor Pedro and his cis het "hot girl anxiety" that makes him compulsively tactile around his more glamorous female co stars.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pedro-pascal-faces-backlash-over-anxiety-around-female-co-stars-during-fantastic-four-promotions-1739272

Vanessa Kirby says he's being protective

#ProofThatHesANiceGuy

Wow. Selective anxiety is so right. Wonder if he’d need caresses from middle age overweight me? lol

Pedro Pascal is what you get when you order Burt Reynolds from Shein.

Dolls <shudder>. This guy gives me the creeps.

IMO, ‘Protect the Dolls’ is a perfectly apt slogan…

OMG...that's brilliant. I'm dying.😂

I thought he was in the closet?

Brilliant 😂

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all this touching on the red carpet isn’t anxiety it’s all a bit creepy imho

Imagine being a highly successful man in your 50’s with such bad “anxiety” that you need to use younger female actresses as your emotional support animals.

The pawing over them - and them feeling they have to “be kind” and put up with it and in fact have to say out loud in public that they are happy to play that part.

What a creep and being played out in plain sight!

“You can protect the dolls, Pedro, by making male spaces more safe and inclusive for gender nonconforming men.”

I love everything in this entire post @CorruptedCauldron and I particularly wanted to pick up on this point. TiM’s only need to seek refuge in women’s spaces because they are not safe in men’s spaces. The real problem is men. Always.

He seemed so charming, then turned out to be yet another disappointment

I saw Celeste Barber on IG wearing a 'Protect The Dolls' t shirt the other day. What a chump

That's very creepy, sleazy behaviour from Pedro Pascal. Ugh.

Likely.

Cis hom/bi then

Jacob Anderson is wearing a "Protect the Dolls " t shirt at san Diego comic con this weekend. No self awareness at all. Such a disappointment.

Maybe he's trying to cash in on Pedro's "popularity", the idiot.

Has everyone seen this interaction with Vanessa Kirby? Watching it I felt visceral repulsion and a touch of anxiety, been there with handsy bosses, work colleagues, employees and friends and you just want to keep the peace because the costs of blowing things up are too high.
VF Instagram FF4 redcarpet interview

Hadn't seen that one. Agree with everything you say. That's just revolting - it's such a sleazy power move on his part, way too intimate and confronting. And what can she do but play along with it. Ugh. He's vile

'Protect the dolls?'
Thanks but no thanks guys, these dolls can take care of themselves...😏