{"id":4190,"date":"2018-08-20T01:07:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2018-08-20T01:07:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:07:13","slug":"can-non-gays-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/08\/20\/can-non-gays-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Non-Gays Cruise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of lesbians and&nbsp;<em>The CW<\/em>, I previously told you that&nbsp;<strong>Ruby Rose&nbsp;<\/strong>had been cast by the network as&nbsp;<em>Batwoman<\/em>, and that the character was\/would be a lesbian.&nbsp; This news spawned several online campaigns from people criticizing her casting since she is not a lesbian.&nbsp; Except she IS a lesbian.&nbsp; \u201cI came out at 12.&nbsp; And have for the past 5 years had to deal with \u2018she\u2019s too gay\u2019 how do y\u2019all flip it like that?&nbsp; I didn\u2019t change.\u201d&nbsp; Then people started complaining that Rose wasn\u2019t Jewish \u2013 because Batwoman\u2019s alter ego is Jewish.&nbsp; Finally, some said that Rose isn\u2019t a good enough actress, which begs the question \u2013 how good an actress do you have to be on&nbsp;<em>The CW<\/em>?&nbsp; Rose had enough of the abuse and quit&nbsp;<em>Twitter<\/em>.&nbsp; \u201cI am looking forward to getting more than 4 hours of sleep and to break from Twitter to focus all my energy on my next 2 projects.&nbsp; If you need me, I\u2019ll be on my Bat Phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The good news \u2013&nbsp;<em>Disney<\/em>\u2019s first openly gay character appears in the upcoming live-action film,&nbsp;<strong><em>The Jungle Cruise<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; The bad news \u2013 the guy playing the gay character is straight.&nbsp; The upshot \u2013 people are pissed.&nbsp; Because apparently acting is no longer \u201cacting\u201d.&nbsp; Only Jews can play Jews, lesbians can play lesbians, etc.&nbsp; It was not long ago that gay actors bemoaned the opportunities to play straight parts.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m an actor \u2013 I can play any role,\u201d they\u2019d say in frustration.&nbsp; I do hope they all remember this when the only roles available to them are the gay best friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of lesbians and&nbsp;The CW, I previously told you that&nbsp;Ruby Rose&nbsp;had been cast by the network as&nbsp;Batwoman, and that the character was\/would be a lesbian.&nbsp; This news spawned several online campaigns from people criticizing her casting since she is not a lesbian.&nbsp; Except she IS a lesbian.&nbsp; \u201cI came out at 12.&nbsp; And have for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}