#Politics haha

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ngl I was worried it was going to be someone I like, like Essie Davis, so I'm relieved it's someone I've never heard of! So weird when people are awful like that. Why? It seems like it makes the awful person's life harder as well as making things awful for other people

Haha, yeah, she’s very local, which I suspect is part of the motivation on her end. From everything I’ve heard, it sounds like she gets off on being a big fish in a little pond.

A lot of Aus actors will reach a certain degree of success here and try to transition it to bigger markets i.e LA or the UK, and the process of that has been described to me as both exciting and very (very) humbling as there are very few Australian movies or shows that have industry weight or recognition, and many (many) fail.

As a result though, you often do see this sort of dynamic play out with actors who stay and feel they’ve built up local industry versus actors who have left and come back and now may have some name recognition and thus sell-ability internationally, even if they’ve just done like, a CW show or something (it all helps in theory with selling a series to distributors too). It goes both ways too, of course - some actors who work internationally come back feeling better than local production, but this is really just to say that there can be weird power dynamics like that on Australian sets sometimes.

From what I’ve heard, she seems to be someone who feels she’s paid her dues and has earned a spot at the top of the local industry (which honestly, she has), and the result is she deserves whatever she wants from crews and directors, and anything less than the exact thing she wants is a personal insult. At the same time, she’s apparently extremely competitive with actors, both men and women, who she feels may usurp her as one of the most bookable actors in Australian TV.

It’s messy! But yeah, I’ve heard a lot about her mean girling and bullying people across departments on set.

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This is what the dynamic was like

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My president

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Bro think he has a chance

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I'm absolutely losing my mind seeing "We need to not treat men and masculinity as inherently evil and worthy of hatred, and not fall back into biological and gender essentialism because that hurts everyone, including trans women" being misinterpreted as "Women need to stop oppressing men", "I think trans women are actually men" or "You specifically who have trauma around men need to get over it because men are the real victims". It's so willfully disingenuous. It makes me sick how willing people are to read in bad faith, especially how willing other trans women are to suddenly start harassing and dogpiling another trans woman.

I am a trans woman too, I understand what it's like to feel unsafe, but it helps no one this cynical attitude that crops up every time someone suggests being kind to men in our lives. "You could save a man you know from falling down the alt-right pipeline" is not the same as "It's your fault that men murder you". "There are people who could be on our side if we don't meet them with immediate hostility" is not the same as "You need to shut up and stop criticizing power structures for the sake of your oppressors' feelings" (I promise there are a lot of people who can be taught about their complicity in oppression without immediately shutting down but you need to work with them). This kind of attitude isn't somehow more informed or correct. It's just lashing out to avoid considering one's own agency.

Making a better, safer world for ourselves requires all kinds of work, but it's always work. It's hard to try to reach out to people who could very realistically harm us, it's work that not all of us can afford to or are able to do and that's fine because we're all just trying to survive. But some of you would rather condescend, tear each other down, and make more enemies before even considering it a possibility.

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