Column That Defended Scarlett Johansson's Trans Casting Taken Down

The Mary Sue: An article about Johansson’s controversial casting by a conservative writer published on Business Insider was deleted—but the Internet never forgets.

Scarlett Johansson sparked a firestorm of criticism for taking the role of Dante “Tex” Gill, a trans man, in the upcoming film Rub & Tug. Fuel was added to this representational fire when Johansson’s response to the outcry, via her rep, was mind-bogglingly out-of-touch and dismissive, telling her critics that “they can be directed to Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, and Felicity Huffman’s reps for comment.” Yikes, to put it in a nutshell.