@10_cow_wife@sbliss89 Was just stating how people are seeing it, wasn’t really taking a side because I feel like both sides lack the nuance required for this situation
@10_cow_wife@sbliss89 well this is just a semantics debate. trans activists generally believe trans women are biologically women, while JK Rowling and UK law acknowledges the “trans” part as separate to retain “sex-based rights” as a legal structure. It’s not explicitly an “anti-trans” fund.
Ariana Grande speaks out about her decision to take a break from her professional career during the first night of her tour in Chicago:
“So basically, the announcement that was made yesterday was not a reactive or impulsive thing,” she told the crowd. “It is something that I had decided to plan that I had quietly made a long time ago and it’s a decision that was made from a thoughtful and empowered place. And I want you to know many things can be true at the same time. I heard that my fans were worried that negativity was ruining things for me, but I just have to say that could not be more the fuck opposite. Honestly, this is not what that is. And I just want to be very, very clear: Multiple things can be true at the same time. Yes, boundaries, they need to be set. Human beings can need a break sometimes. And also, this can be and will continue to be the greatest experience of my professional and creative life.
“No matter what noises exist out there, nothing will ever be able to distort my reality or be more real to me or elaborate to me than this love that we share,” she continued. “The rest of that shit is not mine to carry, so I don’t carry it. I need to get out here and differentiate that from my truth for you all because I love you and this tour has been the most healing, beautiful, corrective, magnificent, special experience of my life.”
https://t.co/8hnKTE2eHJ
@sakcore18 this sounds like both she and Chu agreed that she should disappear into the role of Glinda instead of having Ariana the Pop Star come through the character (aka acting), which seems fine. we don't know what exactly affected her around or during Wicked and if this was part of it.