Going back a ways bigots had a problem with both Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) and Kareem Abdul Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) but were fine with John Wayne (Marion Morrison).
Actors and actresses have to register their name with a guild and sometimes change it because it is too close to another previous actor’s name or they don’t want to show their nepo roots or whatever reason.
So to just skip that problem they make up a registered stage name. Not that it lends any more authenticity but rather there is a structural professional reason that they do that.
And I have no problem with people using any name as long as they don’t mock me for needing help spelling it.
i suspect its more of hiding thier nepotism.
the vast majority of actors probably earn less than four figures a year.
pretty much, they are willing to do it
I feel silly now for not realizing that was a stage name.
I straight up thought her actual name was “Whoopi”.
this dint start until conservatives,right wing groups started pushing the anti-trans narrative. which was pretty recent, like within 5-10years. nobody gave a poop about it til trumps 1st term. Now everyone is either afraid, or freaks out over names that should be ONE sex or the other, or gendered, plus this also applies to characther names in movies and shows. there was one trek show that made it forced and wierd, like that is making statement.
It is pretty arbitrary which names we consider masculine and which names we consider feminine. On Big Brother Canada, there was a man named Hope. A man named Ashley works as a writer for Marvel Studios.
Ashley used to primarily be a mans name
Ash from Evil Dead is a certified badass.
My wife knows my celebrity man crush is Bruce Campbell
And we cannot forget one of the best comedy actors of all time, Leslie Neilson
The name is never the problem, it’s that the person with the name exists that people get so butt hurt about
Change your name to make yourself more palatable to a wider audience? Good.
Change your name to make yourself more palatable for yourself? Bad, apparently.
And still affects no one. People bitching about stuff that has literally nothing to do with them, worrying about everyone else’s genitals.
Pen names are ancient, too. Mark Twain? Real name is Samuel Clements. Charles Dickens used the pen name Boz for some reason, and Stephen King used multiple pen names, especially early in his career.
Uh, Boz was the illustrator for Dickens.
I was mistaken. Thank you for your correction.
If you know anyone who is anti trans but goes by a nickname, start calling them by their given name. Doug, you’re Douglas. Alex, you’re Alexander or Alexis or whatever. Bill: William. Ted: Rafael (might only apply to one Senator).
I thought Ted was short for Edward.
They don’t seem to mind that JD Vance has had a bunch of different names.
I would call myself JD too if my parents named me Jerkin Dapenis as well.
“JV Dunce”
Or that he’s referred to a JD.
