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Title
Jonathan Pie on Acting Gay
Description
Jonathan Pie nails it, with nary a superfluous word.
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Partial transcription of the 4.5-minute video.
<bq>If this is about authenticity and not about wokeness---which I don't believe for a second, by the way---if it <i>is</i> about authenticity...would Russell T. Davis cast a gay person in a straight role?
I'm not being contrarian. I'm not. An actor's job is to imagine being in the shoes of someone who has a different lived experience to their own. <b>Suggesting that an actor can't authentically pretend to be sexually attracted to someone they aren't, seems like a complete misunderstanding of what an actor's job <i>is</i></b>. <i>And</i>, if a straight actor playing a gay role reverts to lazy, unauthentic gay stereotypes, [...] it's not because they're straight, it's because <i>they're a shit actor</i>!
This also suggests that every gay actor should be [...] happy to wear their sexuality like a "Baby on Board" badge. It implies that an actor's sexuality needs to be on their CV alongside their hair color and stage-combat skills.
It implies that gay people are defined by their gayness. <b>Some of the most interesting people I know happen to be gay---and them being gay is the least interesting thing about them.</b>
His [Davis] is not a progressive argument in any way, shape, or form. [...] It's the <b>thin end of a very boring, drab, lifeless wedge where all art is dead in favor of identity-politics--based dogma</b> [...]</bq>
From the comments on YouTube:
<bq>[…] the hypocrisy of being so Woke that you accidentally reinvent prejudice against sexual preferences.<fn></bq>
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<ft>A policy I reluctantly think of as switching-the-signs-on-the-drinking-fountains.
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