(CNN) Monday was not a good day for Scarlett Johansson on the internet. Last year, she dropped out of playing a trans man in the proposed movie "Rub & Tug," after campaigners pointed out that the role was a lost opportunity to cast a trans actor. In 2017, she starred in a remake of the anime movie, "Ghost in the Shell," as a white-bodied cyborg who takes on the brain of a Japanese woman. (Both soul and body were Japanese in the original manga; this was a meta-level of white identity-snatching.) No one has ever stopped Scarlett Johansson from playing a tree -- whereas they have objected to her playing a trans man or a Japanese woman.

Source: CNN July 15, 2019 22:05 UTC