He was a celebrity that fell foul of the lefty, PC, woke, trans rights activist agenda, and was Cancelled due to Cancel Culture. He was also briefly a resident at Her Majesties Pleasure.
Don't understand your point, whats questioning got to do with the essence of this thread, questioning happens in every reply. You just made a post further up about "consequence culture", I am not asking for him to be cancelled, deplatformed or whatever buzzword, I thought it was a weird post, regardless of being used as a joke.I find it interesting that you’re questioning someone’s position based on an opinion they posted online. Tut tut.
Relax buddy just making a joke.
Why was her not putting her “pronouns” even brought up? Like what even started that?
6 months of death threats and rape threats is a bit more than being rude. But are we really ready to start allowing this kind of abuse of people because of hyperbole?
I dont know the whole story. But it goes something like this. Twitter people started putting up pro nouns next to their tags. It was because of the whole people being non binary and trans. He/him, she/her, they/them. People on her twitter kept telling her to put her pro nouns up on her tag. She refused as she didnt get it. They kept on hassling her, and in the end she put up beep bop boop or something like that. That was when she pretty much fecked herself. And the twitter people decided that she was making fun of trans and non binary people. She says she wasnt, she just didnt get it. Her co star, Pedro Pascal is big supporter of the pro nouns and the LGBT community in general because his brother or sister is trans. I cant remember which way they transitioned. But they are trans in any case. So Pedro took Gina aside and explained the importance of pro nouns to Gina and she accept it. She went on twitter said sorry, she didnt get it but she does now and thanked Pedro. And at this point Im really hating myself for knowing all of this. Its such terrible soap opera drama.
Sorry I got a bit rattled in the knowledge of knowing that James Gunn was posting on here
This is where the obligatatory Dixie Chicks mention comes in, or, failing that, L.A. Law, Star Trek. If we want to hit all the buttons, then Salt of the Earth.
Now this is strange. If you don't know the story then presumably you'd check, right? I didn't, so I did. She talked to Pedro Pascal, who has a trans sister, and then she understood the request. Then, after understanding why people were allegedly asking for pronouns in her bio, she chose to purposefully make fun of them by putting in "beep/bop/boop".
Kind of like The General in the early days.
Go ahead and point me to the rape and death threats in post I was replying to.
I said I dont know the whole story. Is there some reason you just misrepresented what I said?
I misrepresented you not knowing the main part of the story as you not knowing the story, yes, I take full responsibility for that.
How is 'why did twitter users start put pro nouns in" the main part of the story?
Yes, I notice the date where beep/bop/boop comes after the conversation with Pascal. Why do you think she added it before?How is 'why did twitter users start put pro nouns in" the main part of the story?
Notice the dates?
So its there, and shes telling people that she had the conversation. The next day its gone. But if you have something that says otherwise, by all means.
The fact that the first ever mention of beep/bop/boop came after the first ever tweet mentioning Pedro Pascal?
And why do you believe that?
I believe that because of a combination of two things. The first thing as the the earliest mention of her conversation with Pascal that I can find happened on the 12th of September and the first mention of her mocking trans people with her robot speech being on the 13th. The second thing is me using my learned experience to deduce that the 13th came after the 12th.
What are you doing? I ask because the beep bop boop is on the twitter post above that she made saying she had the conversation. Its marked the 12th. On the twitter post again above were its not there anymore its the 13th. 12th, its there. 13th, its gone. 13 does indeed come after 12.
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No, you're right, I was looking for screep captures of her bio because that's where peope type that stuff, totally missing what was staring me in my face.
the main thing that's new about modern day cancel culture, in my view at least, is everyones fair game now (including the establishment)
ok. Honestly, you had me thinking I was going mad for a second
It's always good to get a moral lecture from Disney.
"Putting pronouns in your bio is just a decent thing to do".How is 'why did twitter users start put pro nouns in" the main part of the story?
Notice the dates?
I in general always look to Hollywood celebrities for virtue, wisdom and guidance.
Yeah, you're just repeating the same lines now without actually responding to the points I made in my post.
You're willfully and repeatedly ignoring the fact that that kind of abuse is not allowed at all. It is actually illegal, as you well know. The people that made them can and should face the consequences. But that obviously doesn't fit your argument.
I share that idea but I have one small point that is the crux of my disagreement with the idea of cancel culture. In the past people used to either call radio stations, protests in the streets or write something for the comments sections of their local/national newspaper, your visibility was comparatively limited by default. The newspapers and radios comments were currated but it was still possible to see people share outrageous/mean things. Nowadays you have an easier access and wider platform the comment sections are global and not/barely currated.
that was her point, they didn’t take too kindly to that.
Probably because they were hoping as a woman with a high profile in the media she'd be an ally rather than a bit of a knob. Not that I agree people should feel forced to do so, it should ultimately be their choice, but her replies only escalated the situation.
Im not doing anything so the sort. When Laura Bailey got the same treatment because she voiced a character in the last of us, it was everywhere. People were outraged. Heads will roll etc. For Gina, it was deleted with out much of a stink. They made new accounts, rinse and repeat.
I would say that is a fundamental problem with how social media companies deal with trolling rather than something exclusive to "cancel culture".
If we consider No-platforming people from universities, I'd mention Richard Dawkins. On top of that I would add Brett Weinstein's treatment at Evergreen college.
what you mean to say there is that she said no, and didn’t take their shit for saying no. Why we are still pretending that just because someone has good intentions they can’t be toxic as feck about it? This is problem with all of this. The tribalism of us vs them. She’s a right winger, so she’s just automatically in the wrong. Her being a moron and not deserving of the abuse she got can both be true. And in fact are both true. But because of some line in the sand, so many people are going out of their way to excuse what happened. Might as well say “what did she think was going to happen going up to his room at that time of night?”. Blaming the victim of abuse is never a good look.
