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Left-wing Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway has bent the knee to a mob of “woke” critics who complained about one of the fictional characters she’d played
The witch whom Hathaway played in the HBO film “The Witches” has three fingers on each hand, and this is problematic to “woke” critics because it’s similar to the so-called split hand/split foot malformation, also known as ectrodactyly.
Ectrodactyly is a real-life condition that Hathaway doesn’t suffer from, and so her playing a fictional character who does suffer from the condition provoked outrage and dismay from “woke” people who seem to take offense to virtually anything.
Here’s a sample of the “woke” outrage below:
if you aren’t angry about Anne Hathaway in Witches then you should be. her character (the villain) has ectrodactyly, a condition which affects the hands and feet. this is another example of horrific stereotypes surrounding disability in the media.
— annabelle (@annabel58373305) November 3, 2020
Anne Hathaway’s character in the new Witches has is the ectrodactyly as a way to show her true evil, terrifying and cruel creature. This makes me awfully sad as people with ectrodactyly are not cruel creatures but people living our lives. Ectrodactyly is not a moral judgement.
— cherub (@principite) November 3, 2020
This is the 2nd time I’ve seen ectrodactyly on screen AT ALL and also the 2nd time I’ve seen an abled bodied actor get prosthetics to pretend they have it. My disability is not a costume. My disability is not evil or weird.
— cherub (@principite) November 3, 2020
Ectrodactyly refers to the condition when you have missing central fingers or toes. Often referred to as cleft hands or feet. You might have heard of it called as ‘lobster hands’ or ‘claws’ but these terms are more akin to slurs.
— cherub (@principite) November 3, 2020
Let’s stop only portraying #disabled people in media to depict villainy. I am sooo sick n tired of the #DisabledVillain trope & I am sick n tired of non-disabled actors portraying disabled folk.
Esp million $ movies that have the time & resource to do better #NotAWitch
A thread— Grace (@_graceadele) November 3, 2020
So if you’re not in #DisabilityTwitter you might not know about the new The Witches film decided to signify Anne Hathaway’s transformation into a witch by depicting her with #ectrodactyly.
But this is faaarr from a new trope. Villains have been depicted as disabled for centuries pic.twitter.com/vKmqXGDcbw— Grace (@_graceadele) November 3, 2020
@WarnerBrosUK was there much thought given as to how this representation of limb differences would effect the limb difference community?! @ReachCharity @RoaldFull pic.twitter.com/kiTEAuYt7i
— Amy Marren (@amy_marren) November 2, 2020
Note how all the critics appeared to be women …
The backlash over Hathaway playing a fictional character with three fingers on each hand grew so severe that nearly 9,000 “woke” people signed a petition calling for “The Witches” to be boycotted. The petition was launched by a woman who doesn’t have ectrodactyly but who was offended on behalf of her son who does.
“Now I have crippling anxiety about what his peers who have seen this movie might say. Are kids going to point at him in public and call him a witch? How is his life going to be impacted by HBO’s decision to depict ectrodactyly the way it did in this movie,” she wrote.
Nowhere in the petition did she specify whether or not her son — the person who actually has ectrodactyly — was himself offended by the movie.
On Thursday, Hathaway responded to the controversy by issuing a full-throated apology for playing the role of a fictional character with three fingers on each hand.
“I have recently learned that many people with limb differences, especially children, are in pain because of the portrayal of the Grand High Witch in The Witches,” she wrote in a lengthy, remorseful Instagram post.
“Let me begin by saying I do my best to be sensitive to the feelings and experiences of others not out of some scrambling PC fear, but because not hurting others seems like a basic level of decency we should all be striving for,” she continued.
“As someone who really believes in inclusivity and really, really detests cruelty, I owe you all an apology for the pain caused. I am sorry. I did not connect limb difference with the GHW when the look of the character was brought to me; if I had, I assure you this never would have happened.”
She added that she was especially “sorry to kids with limb differences,” though to be clear, there’s no evidence that any child in America had taken the slightest offense to her playing the role of a fictional witch with three fingers on each hand.
“[N]ow that I know better I promise I’ll do better. And I owe a special apology to everyone who loves you as fiercely as I love my own kids: I’m sorry I let your family down,” she concluded.
Look at the post below:
A day later, Warner Brothers issued its own lengthy apology.
“We the filmmakers and Warner Bros. Pictures are deeply saddened to learn that our depiction of the fictional characters in The Witches could upset people with disabilities, and regret any offense caused,” a spokesperson reportedly told E! News.
“In adapting the original story, we worked with designers and artists to come up with a new interpretation of the cat-like claws that are described in the book. It was never the intention for viewers to feel that the fantastical, non-human creatures were meant to represent them. This film is about the power of kindness and friendship. It is our hope that families and children can enjoy the film and embrace this empowering, love-filled theme.”
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