i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g
Elliot Page also starred in Inception before transitioning, and from what I’ve heard is in The Odyssey for less than five minutes, so that’s a really weird example to use. Like, I don’t disagree with the overall point, but why is that the first example? Kind of feels more like criticizing Nolan for hiring a trans actor than actually being about men not able to write women.
Elliot Page is such a good example of how when trans men transition people automatically read privilege into their experiences—them specfically, in a way that singles them out among the sea of cis men they are surrounded with living their lives uncontroversially—when all evidence suggests they are actually experiencing the exact opposite of that. Elliot Page has gotten nothing but hate and scrutinity from the general public and the media and his career has taken some serious damage since coming out.
OP did not say it took Elliot transitioning for Nolan to give him a role: it said it took him transitioning for Nolan to give him a good role. It was about how Nolan can only write male characters, and the character Elliot played in Inception was a female character and had Nolans infamous bad-female-writing. It did not say Elliot got a better role because he is trans: it said Nolan only writes male characters well. With Elliot it's an easy example of an actor Nolan has worked with multiple times (as he's also done with others), but with him you can clearly see how the role of an actor and the writing of said role is dependent on the gender of the character depicted.
OP was also not talking about Elliot Page as the main point. He was one example to show specifically Nolan and his writing for women vs for men characters. It was not about privilege. It did not say Elliot is treated better as a man in Hollywood, it did not even delve into that topic. It was about the way many male writers Cannot Write Female Characters. It was not about Elliot Page Specifically, and nowhere did it talk abt his struggles or supposed privilege.
