{"id":6609,"date":"2018-02-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6609"},"modified":"2018-02-05T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:21:11","slug":"the-undoing-of-rose-mcgowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/6609\/","title":{"rendered":"The Undoing of Rose McGowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the New York Times interview with the actress Rose McGowan that first brought Harvey Weinstein\u2019s behaviour to the attention of the general public last October (it was common knowledge in Hollywood circles). This is why I had a vague idea who she was when I saw the video below, filmed during a book signing at a Barnes &amp; Noble in New York:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rose McGowan has meltdown on stage at Barnes &amp; Nobles book signing after trans heckler yells that she hasn&#8217;t done anything for trans women who are victims of sexual assault. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fTRafCUNcL\">pic.twitter.com\/fTRafCUNcL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pop Crave (@PopCrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/959218557946155008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The person who yelled at her is a transsexual woman who appears to have a rather <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/radfemfatale\/status\/959570639584555009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubious history <\/a>of her own. Naturally, this being 2018, the organisers of the women\u2019s march, the event where deranged women turn up in DC wearing pussy hats to scream en masse at Trump, have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/womensmarch\/status\/959560253850509315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denounced<\/a> McGowan and she is now becoming persona non grata:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In light of feedback from the Seattle community and concerning public behavior by Rose McGowan, Seattle Arts &amp; Lectures has decided to cancel the event with her on February 20. All ticket holders will be refunded.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SAL (@SeaArtsLectures) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeaArtsLectures\/status\/959518816060321792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So last week McGowan was a feminist heroine, a survivor of sexual assault and leading the fight against the Patriarchy. But having not taken any shit from a bloke in women\u2019s clothes who stood up and abused her at her book signing, she\u2019s now an outcast.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my view: these people are fucking insane. I have some sympathy with McGowan &#8211; the lunatic who accosted her should have been turfed out on her ear &#8211; but look at her reaction and overall demeanor, best seen in this video shot shortly after the incident:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rose McGowan had more to say. This was moments after the Trans woman was kicked out the Barnes &amp; Noble. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DiIJWwOvyw\">pic.twitter.com\/DiIJWwOvyw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pop Crave (@PopCrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/959277792260063232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s turned up to a book signing wearing what looks like gym kit, or an outfit she loafs around her flat in. She\u2019s slouched in her chair able only to express anger littered with profanity, coming across as a moody adolescent who\u2019s decided to copy TV portrayals of ghetto thugs when telling her parents she doesn\u2019t want to clean her room. And people actually turned up to listen to this?<\/p>\n<p>People are tempted to point to Harvey Weinstein and say this is what is wrong with Hollywood. Alas, I think the problems go way deeper, and have spilled over into whole swathes of the media and even politics. It is quite something to watch whole swathes of an advanced country go collectively insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the New York Times interview with the actress Rose McGowan that first brought Harvey Weinstein\u2019s behaviour to the attention of the general public last October (it was common knowledge in Hollywood circles). This is why I had a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/6609\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,79,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}