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kleinbl00  ·  2088 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Breaking: entertainment industry promotes unhealthy views of minority group

Movie people are the easiest to pick on. After all, our morals aren't your own, we lead decadent lives, and therefore the social failings of society aren't society's fault, they're Hollywood's.

Nobody got an MFA from Cal Arts so they could shoot Toddlers in Tiaras. But that's what people want to watch, so that's what gets shot. And it doesn't matter that we had a transgender contestant on one of my shows four years ago, and it doesn't matter that Walter Carlos became Wendy more than 40 years ago without anybody saying anything - the reason the public is still generally uncomfortable around transgender people no matter how hard they try is because Hollywood isn't normalizing things fast enough.

Actors are shameless self-promoters. They have to be. Actors with a grievance? That's literally every actor.