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The Rose McGowans Are Bad For Feminism

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It’s sometimes difficult to distinguish legitimate feminists from self congratulatory idiots who parrot study session talk from their 1o1 Women’s Studies classes. Are you genuinely concerned about injustice or are you simply underemployed and generally frustrated? While there are still legitimate concerns in the realm of feminism, the discourse is increasingly dominated by blathering fools who think their having a bad day is an affront to all of society.

Rose McGowan is a perfect example of this. McGowan made a career of flaunting her body, that body being the only reason you know her name, yet was apparently incensed when she got a breakdown to audition for an Adam Sandler movie suggesting she wear a revealing outfit:

So they are suggesting you go with a certain look according to the role you’re auditioning for? That sounds like every audition of all time. Did they ask the actors in Magic Mike to take their shirts off prior to casting? What makes you so different.

It would appear the role was that of a trollop. You’re acting, remember? Hence they want you to dress the part. The same how if you were playing a cowperson you’d wear a cowperson hat.

McGowan was dropped by her acting agency following this tweet, or at least that’s her perspective.

In reality it was most likely because she’s obviously confrontational without having the mental capacity to back it up, and usually on those breakdowns there’s an inherent confidentiality agreement that you won’t post them to Twitter. Hence you embrassed your agent. McGowan thinks it’s because they can’t handle the truth:

McGowan, who coincidentally dated director Robert Rodriguez prior to being granted a starring role in his film Grindhouse, her most notable career accomplishment, is no stranger to conflating her own delusional self-aggrandizement with speaking the truth.

In July of last year she was Jedi Mind Tricked into not embarrassing herself by talking, by another (or possibly the same) agent. She again spun this into a feminist yarn about strong women being silenced by the patriarchal film industry, when the simple truth is people often don’t want to hear the things annoying idiots have to say:

“I had an agent that told me not to speak in meetings because I was too intelligent and it was stressing to the men. It was a woman who told me that.”

No, they thought you were an idiot, as evidenced by the fact you were dumb enough to buy this hilarious line of reasoning. You were probably at risk of losing whatever part your agent was ironing out for you. This is because your only skill in life is being attractive. Nobody should care what you think.

Yet strangely, people do.

After McGowan’s single handed admonishment of the entire casting process since the advent of talkies, she was heaped with Twitter praise for her courage.

These are not the role models the feminist movement needs. Someone who made a career out of embracing or exploiting their sexuality and now wants to take the power afforded to them through that very action and complain about it.

Models and actors who pose for a PETA ad and step out in fur a few months later. In short, hypocrites.

It’s not their fault. They’re often stupid and uneducated. Or maybe they forgot the evils of fur or about banging Rodriguez for the part. People put ideas in their heads and they believe them for a while. Then they move onto something else. That’s what actors do.

You’re telling me there’s not a chick in the PETA office with a marine bio degree and a decent rack who can pose for that billboard?

Or an actress who is well spoken on the issue of feminism outside of her own petty, entitled, self-centered blow hardy nonsense?

There are real ones out there. With a solid grasp of these issues. A grasp that extends beyond themselves.

Leave these people to watch their Netflix documentaries and feign outrage at the cocktail party long enough to blow some lines and move onto other subjects.

Stop paying attention to the dumb ones.

They’re hurting the cause.

 

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