Now the woke mob is pissed about Brendan Frazier's role in The Whale, because he's not gay in real life nor fat enough for their liking.
Okay, let me explain acting to you again for the millionth time. Acting is pretending to be something that you're not. I know that that's a foreign concept for wokesters and empathy is considered to be an evil concept among you; but, that's what it is. If you're against the craft of acting as a whole, just say so. I'll kick the philosophical crap out of you; but, at least you'd be being honest.
Still, I've gotta believe that this cultural shift toward aggressive stupidity was a long time coming. The existence of publications like People showed us the odd human obsession with the personal lives of public figures decades ago. It was only a matter of time before large swaths of people would take that information and try to weaponize it to serve an agenda.
Maybe we should realize what this really is -- people demanding access to your bedroom to decide whether or not you get to take a job. If you're a man, and you don't like to stick your dick into the woke mob's preferred holes, you don't get to work.
Maybe we should be able to check out a celebrity's personal life or beliefs and appreciate his or her craft for what it is rather than obsessing over the fact that actors are doing their jobs by wearing costumes, saying things that they otherwise wouldn't say, and presenting as people who they aren't.