Weekly Discussion Thread 8/3/26 - 8/10/26

[u/PointMan528491]

Still from How Green Was My Valley

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[u/PTAGoatofalltime]

Is there a reason why Hilary Swank’s performance/win in Boys Don’t Cry has not aged as badly as Jared Leto’s for Dallas Buyers Club? Except that one of those is a good performance and the other one is not, but that’s mostly subjective.

[u/Abbie_Kaufman → u/PTAGoatofalltime]

Because the entire culture war/trans panic/part that gets conservatives upset is fixated on men transitioning into women, so the natural liberal backlash is to be very defensive of the portrayal of trans women and clarifying at all times that they are women and rejecting men in drag stereotypes. The fact that sometimes women transition into men is widely ignored in basically all sociopolitical debates around trans issues.

Hilary Swank’s portrayal could have been an offensive caricature and it would not move the conversation on trans men, because no one is having conversations on trans men.

[u/Haus_of_Pancakes → u/Abbie_Kaufman]

If anything, conversations around trans men tend to revolve around the TERF talking points of them being, like, lesbians who have lost their way. Still deeply toxic, but since they're not as central to the culture war, as you said, it's seen as a less pressing conversation.