Trans model and actor is crowned Miss Netherlands and will compete for Miss Universe
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/trans-model-actress-crowned-miss-netherlands-will-compete-miss-univers-rcna93554Open linkView original on lemmy.world118
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Locking this, getting reports on about 95% of the comments that come in for transphobia.
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Oh yeah the amount of hate I’ve seen is insane. People never give a shit about who wins but now it’s the end of the world and the end of 200 years of feminism apparently. God the things the internet cares about are pathetic
Cool! Congratulations to her!
I genuinely smiled of joy reading this. My day is brighter now. Thank you for posting.
That is not a very flattering picture of her - there are better ones.
Plus they misgender her in the title of the article... like what the actual fuck?
Where? Are you talking about the word “actor”? That’s used by both men and women.
Very infrequently, to the point that this can only have been intentional
That website recently stopped using "actress", which is considered sexist.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/smallville-actor-allison-mack-released-prison-early-rcna92592
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/-horror-dolores-roach-latina-actor-justina-machado-discusses-role-rcna92624
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/jacklyn-zeman-longtime-general-hospital-actor-dies-70-rcna83888
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/actress-anne-heche-critically-injured-los-angeles-crash-rcna41824 (an older article, note the revision that occurred from this url to the actual article).
I don’t agree. Women have been choosing the term “actor” instead of “actress” to describe themselves since the 1970s and 1980s as a direct result of the women's movement and an awareness of gender bias in language. The screen actors guild also uses “actor” for both men and women, or “female actor” when marking a distinction between the two sexes. Only the academy awards still uses “actress”. The Los Angeles times says the word actress is dying out of conversation… there are so many articles about it. “Actor” is not misgendering her.
That's fair, it just reads oddly when gender is the main crux of the controversy around her win
Valid point that you thought it was an intentional misgender given the context.
Nah. While the general public will often still say actor or actress, in the industry, actor is the preferred nomenclature now. It's why the Oscar categories are "best male actor" and "best female actor" not actress.
Gotcha, makes sense. Maybe I'm just used to the local paper always using actor vs actress
The Oscars are actually one of the holdouts, for now they are still using "best actress".
Freddy Mercury wants his smile back.
Opening a fresh bottle of hatorade, or you dipping back into the one leftover from yesterday?
At first, I didn’t understand the headline. Since it’s the Netherlands (and I’m American) for a second I thought Trans was her name.
I have two things to say in my defense. One, I only woke up an hour ago. Two, “trans” is the first word in the headline, so it’s capitalized.
I know, I know. I’m still an idiot. Shut up.
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Yeah, apparently the mods in here don't like wrongthink.
It has nothing to do with "wrongthink" and everything to do with very blatant transphobia, which is not welcome in this community nor is it welcome on the lemmy.world instance as a whole if you checkout the instance wide rules.
I'm sure that the Netherlands doesn't feel anything for you at all.
Actually, they're not only judged on appearance.
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I think women are entitled to competitions without having to compete against men.
Then it's a good thing they didn't compete against a man.
They didn't lose to a man in drag silly, they lost to a woman.