Rose McGowan was giving a talk about her new book, when a transgender protestor started loudly heckling her.
Why?
Because Rose isn’t doing enough for transgenders.
Can you even?
What level of self-importance does it take to think EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. should be fighting for YOUR cause?
WTF?
Translation: “WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR MEEEEEEE. YOU’RE NOT DOING ENOUGH FOR MEEEEE.”
The moment Rose McGowan unleashed on a transgender protester in an on-stage meltdown at a book reading on Wednesday two days before she canceled all public appearances has been captured in video.
The outburst happened at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan’s Union Square on Wednesday evening as McGowan gave a reading from her new book, Brave.
Among the crowd of fans was an Andi Dier, an angry transgender woman who attacked McGowan for not campaigning for the rights of trans women.
I’m sorry… I just find that so ridiculous. Why does EVERYONE need to fight for YOU?
She shouted at the actress and had to be escorted out by security but her remarks set McGowan on a minutes-long, profane rant where she spoke about being ‘raped and strangled’ and claimed Investigation Discovery was a network ‘dedicated to women’s deaths’.
The following day, the star took part in an interview with prolific reporter Ronan Farrow where she claimed for the first time that she had been raped as a 15-year-old by a well-known, Oscar winning actor as well as by Harvey Weinstein, as she has been alleging for years.
McGowan was raised in a cult that is known to sexually abuse minors. I wonder if that had anything to do with it. If anything, it probably left her more vulnerable to attacks.
After that appearance, McGowan, who is the star of a new documentary about her advocacy work and how she has been part of the Me Too movement, canceled all public appearances.
In a tweet, she said she had given ‘enough’ to the cause and demanded an apology from Barnes & Noble.
She also alleged that Dier had been paid to lambast her and she abhorred her publicists and the ‘complicit’ audience for not standing up for her.
I am canceling upcoming public appearances because I have given enough. I have given beauty, in return I was VERBALLY ASSAULTED for two full minutes @BNBuzz by an actor paid to verbally assault a woman who has been terrorized by your system. And no ONE in that room did anything
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) February 2, 2018
And everyone from my publicists, t assistants, managers and every person sitting in their chairs frozen by their weakness, a weakness called COMPLICITY. The truth is you all failed me. Again. And again. And again.
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) February 2, 2018
Actually… I heard the audience telling her they supported her. Many said they were “grateful” for her. Also the audience is probably made up of a bunch of libs who are too afraid to tell any trans person they’re anything but WOOOONDERFUL.
I did my best. Dawn, Citizen Rose, BRAVE and most especially, my gift to everyone, Planet 9. It’s better there. I promise. pic.twitter.com/q8d7S4g38c
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) February 2, 2018
Ooooh dear… what?
I would like an apology from the manager of the Union Square @BNUnionSquareNY and all security people, and the audience, who did nothing and let the paid verbal assault of an assaulted woman happen. Cool?
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) February 2, 2018
Then she says that the transgender protestor was actually paid by Variety to silence her…
Look who got the transcript word for word! Why it’s the longtime mouthpiece for the Pig Monster, @Variety You don’t sayyyyyyyyy ! Coincidence that Peter Bart & other journalists paid to smear me and others victims all these years, are still aiding and abetting? No.
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) February 3, 2018
The Cult of Complicity- those I call out are after me. This is the monster who was paid to violate me publicly. An aggressive two minutes long assault on a long abused woman who is simply trying to change the world and make it better #RoseArmy pic.twitter.com/eAK8hZVdvz
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) February 3, 2018
Yikes.
When first confronted by Dier at the book event, McGowan kept her composure and told her, as she screamed abuse, ‘sit down, you’re so boring’.
Dier complained that McGowan, while advocating for cisgender women’s rights, had done nothing for the trans community.
‘You don’t know my life. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Enough. Back off. Shut up you’re so boring. Don’t label me sister, don’t put your labels on me,’ she said.
Cheered on by the crowd, McGowan became angrier.
SEE! They cheered her on! They like you, Rose… What did you want? Someone to tackle the trans person? Pretty sure that’s a hate crime. You’re not allowed to tackle trans people.
‘Don’t you f**** do that. Do not put your label on me, I don’t come from your planet. Leave me alone,’ she said.
Then, as the protester was escorted away, the actress sprang out of her chair and proclaimed: ‘I do not subscribe to your language. You do not put labels on me or anybody. Step the f*** back!
‘What I do is for the f****** world and you should be f****** grateful. So shut the f*** up. Get off my back. What have you done? Cause I know what I’ve done. God dammit!’
Sitting back down, Mcgowan carried on.
‘I’m mad at the f***** lies, I’m mad at the stereotypes. I am mad that you put s** on me! Cause I have a f****** vagina!
‘And I’m white or I’m black or I’m yellow or I’m purple. F*** off! All of us want to say it, I just do. God dammit!’ she said.
She came back to the topic later:
In a second outburst, filmed later, she returned to the subject of how transgender women are abused but said their treatment was not the same because she, as an actress, had been systematically abused and sexualized as part of her job.
‘Trans women are women what I’ve been trying to say is that it’s actually identical the stats are not that dissimilar. You break it down it is a much f****** smaller population
So basically her saying that women and transwomen are equally victimized is what p*sses trans people off… they want to be the supreme victims, I guess?
To cap off, she fumed: ‘My name is Rose McGowan and I’m obviously f****** brave.
Oooookay then.
As I mentioned, Rose has cancelled all further public appearances.
It might be for the best… Rose needs some serious mental R&R. She doesn’t seem to be doing well.