Saturday, June 7, 2025

The Bella Ramsey Disaster; Her nonbinary identity impacted her portrayal of a teenage girl.

"Bella Ramsey’s decision to pursue a nonbinary identity hurts her performance in The Last of Us, and it will continue to hurt her in future female roles. Her effort in her personal life to distance herself from being a woman will resound in those performances."
Woke sources call her "they" and "their"

"HBO went all-out for its adaptation of the wildly successful and critically acclaimed video game The Last of Us. For the first season, the network threw a $73 million budget at the project, an amount that exceeds the budget given to the first five seasons of Game of Thrones, HBO’s most financially successful show. The plan was for The Last of Us, which was given the network’s coveted Sunday night slot, to become one of the marquee shows on the streaming platform Max (soon to be renamed back to HBO Max) and to draw in years of subscribers.
"That was the plan. But then HBO cast a woman who believes that she is not a woman to play the lead role of a girl named Ellie. Disaster has followed.
"Bella Ramsey, who plays Ellie, used the press tour for the show’s first season to come out as nonbinary. “I guess my gender has always been very fluid,” she told the New York Times. “Someone would call me ‘she’ or ‘her’ and I wouldn’t think about it, but I knew that if someone called me ‘he’ it was a bit exciting.”
"According to the LGBTQIA+ Wiki, those who take on a nonbinary identity can adopt roles as diverse as having “multiple genders,” experiencing “gender fluidity,” or having a different experience with gender “that doesn’t necessarily cause one to be genderless.” In other words, what exactly Bella Ramsey means by identifying as nonbinary is unclear, but she seemingly believes that she is neither a woman nor a man, but some constructed category in between.
"In practice, her nonbinary identity means that she seeks to hide her femininity and disassociate herself from it. For The Last of Us, this physically manifested in her decision to bind her breasts during filming. Even she admitted that this is dangerous from a health perspective." . . .

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