Oscars Nominate Transgender Person as Best Actress

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The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday, and for the most part, nobody seems to care. That’s par for the course these days, with the exception of last year, when they nominated Oppenheimer, a legitimately outstanding movie that people loved. (And even that wasn’t much of a bump.) As someone who used to love watching the Oscars every year, I can tell you exactly why they’ve fallen from grace: they stopped being a yearly celebration of cinema and became an excuse for a bunch of vapid, entitled narcissists to lecture the rest of the country about politics and social issues while preening like swans. It became off-putting, like they were actively trying to make sure nobody but them had a good time. (My new ritual on Oscar night is to watch a classic movie I’ve never seen; I highly recommend it.)

However, this year, there’s one nomination that’s turning some heads: Karla Sofía Gascón, a transgender “woman” (I think; male-to-female) who is nominated for Best Actress for the film Emilia Pérez, which I’ve known existed since exactly today. Gascón plays Juan “Manitas” Del Monte, a drug lord who wants to become a woman and enlists a lawyer played by Zoë Saldaña to do it. Emilia Pérez is described as a “musical crime comedy,” which I guess makes it the modern era’s Victor/Victoria; it’s also nominated for a whopping thirteen nominations, the most for a non-English movie and more than any movie except for All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land, which all had fourteen. As you probably assume, every publication is mentioning how historic Gascón’s nomination is, and I guess we’re all supposed to agree and hope he wins. And I’ll tell you something: I do. I absolutely do. Why? Watch this clip from Megyn Kelly’s show:

I included that segment because watching it this morning was one of those moments where someone else perfectly articulates everything you’re thinking. I agree with Megyn Kelly completely: it will be immensely satisfying to watch these smug liberal women have to sit there and smile while a man is designated a better actress than them. And despite their falderal about picking and choosing your gender and social constructs and whatever nonsense, you know they don’t really believe it; you know they’re thinking the same thing all those women who spoke up and were told to grin and bear it were thinking. It’s the perfect bow on top of their trans-whatever virtue signaling campaign; the rest of the country rejected this, as Megyn says, but they can’t because they’ve dug their heels in too deep, and they’re part of a community that demands total ideological conformity. Now, who’s got to grin and bear it?

I also wanted to put up that Megyn Kelly video because it contains a scene from the movie, which makes my other point: nominating Karla Sofía Gascón for Best Actress and Emilia Pérez for all those Oscars is clearly a political statement. One of the first things Donald Trump did when he was inaugurated on Monday was to declare that the United States would only recognize two genders, male and female, and after the swearing-in ceremony, he got to work undoing a lot of woke government programs, some involving trans issues. Moreover, the expectation was that he would do many of these things after he won the election in November. There isn’t a doubt in my mind that the leftist prigs in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did this as a form of protest against Trump, their way of reaffirming their devotion to “the resistance.” My proof is that ridiculous scene in the Megyn Kelly clip; granting that it’s just one scene, can anyone look at that and think Emilia Pérez is being nominated because it’s one of the best movies of the year? And for thirteen nominations at that? And the result will undoubtedly be another unwatched Oscar telecast because nobody wants to watch some trans-activist movie sweep the awards so Hollywood can feel like they’re sticking it to Trump. And, as Megyn says, the country is not with them on that issue, even independent of Trump; people are over this garbage, and they’re not going to sit there and have their noses rubbed in it for four hours. Good luck with those Best Dressed lists, though; Joan Rivers’ commentary would have been a killer.

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