#Can we please stop scraping the bottom of the barrel and being happy every. single time. queer people are decorated for things

[twobellsilence]

Anyway this might be the hottest take I've ever posted on here but I just want to say that if Karla Sofía Gascón wins an oscar for Emilia Pérez it should NOT be celebrated. "oh but she's the first openly trans woman to be nominated!! That's historic and very cool!!!" yeah it's historic or whatever but the movie she's in is actively offensive and repulsive towards Mexican people (and many other Latam countries by extension as well, but mainly Mexico) and pushes transmedicalism and has an all around weird understanding of transness and is also weirdly positive about Israel????? And also if you have eyes and watch it you'll realize that 1) the director or the publishers or whoever the fuck MOST DEFINITELY bought out the events it's nominated in, because jesus fucking christ, the only way for this shitstain to be nominated for any serious award is plain old corruption, and 2) her performance is just okay. Not bad, but just okay. I suppose she Is the best actress in this, but that's not the highest bar in the world.

Also, her statements. She's literally gone on record actively diminishing Latin American people's criticisms about it and also implying those who hate the movie do so because she's in it (so using the transphobia card to deflect EXTREMELY valid criticism, very classy Miss Gascón) instead of the other myriad issues it has... Have I mentioned the fact that she's a Spaniard, claiming to be "mexican by adoption" because she's gone there for work a couple of times, thinking that she knows better than the entire country of Mexico and its natives? Do you see the goddamn issue here????

Listen, I would be lying if I said I have nothing against this woman, because as a Colombian who's had relatives disappear and never be found during FARC raids and is also worried sick about a part of my family living in danger zones now that guerrillas are starting to occupy towns again, the message of Emilia Pérez and the sheer arrogance that most of the people who've been at the front of its development, Gascón included, are actively offensive and so enraging it makes me want to cry out of frustration if I think about it for too long. So you could very well accuse me of being biased. But let's be real - objectively, this would NOT be a deserved victory, and glorifying Gascón's performance when it hinges on the complete misrepresentation of very serious Mexican issues that actively harm people TO THIS DAY is just wrong, dare I say even disgusting. She does not deserve the award just like Emilia Pérez doesn't deserve ANYTHING else, period. Trans people deserve better. SHE deserves better, even. Let her win when she gives a killer performance in an actually good movie, not here.