lmao scarlett johansson was asked about giving up that trans role and then immediately jumped to comparing playing different gender identities/ethnicities to… animals and trees? ok hun pic.twitter.com/UjtmvGruEt

— Nina Mohan 🇱🇰 (@NinaLMohan) July 13, 2019

You know that logic leads back to mainly white men playing Othello, right?
Oh, wait, that’s literally the position you want us back in.

— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) July 14, 2019

FTR, I was deep into a training program with John Robert Powers when I had my first major “can’t function” incident. So I think I sympathise more than empathise with the trans actress whose part they tried to have ScarJo steal. Yes, it sucks that one of Shakespeare’s best roles is only available to men of visibly African descent. But society isn’t colourblind enough yet to allow that script back into white men’s hands and I don’t think it will be for centuries.