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Oscar Winner Decides to ‘Recognize and Honor the Sex Worker Community’

Posted on | March 4, 2025 | Comments Off on Oscar Winner Decides to ‘Recognize and Honor the Sex Worker Community’

Because I haven’t watched the annual Oscar ceremony in years — and I suspect few of my readers watch it, either — this bit of Hollywood news was somewhat confusing to me. Who is Mikey Madison and what did she do in the movie Anora to merit the Best Actress award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? Wikipedia:

Mikaela Madison Rosberg (born March 25, 1999), known professionally as Mikey Madison, is an American actress. She began her career acting in short films and received recognition for her role as a sullen teenager in the FX comedy series Better Things (2016–2022). Madison then played Susan Atkins in Quentin Tarantino’s comedy-drama film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Amber Freeman in the horror film Scream (2022).
Madison gained wider recognition for playing the titular role of a sex worker in Sean Baker’s film Anora (2024), winning the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actress.

OK, so she was in a Tarantino flick, which is rather an impressive credential to have acquired at such a young age. But what is this movie Anora? This is from Wikipedia’s plot summary:

Anora “Ani” Mikheeva is a 23-year-old stripper living in Brighton Beach, a Russian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. Her boss introduces her to Ivan “Vanya” Zakharov, the young son of the Russian oligarch Nikolai Zakharov, who requests someone fluent in Russian. Although Vanya is in the United States to study, he spends most of his time partying and playing video games in his family’s Brooklyn mansion.
Vanya hires Ani for several encounters and pays her $15,000 to stay with him for a week. During a trip to Las Vegas, he impulsively proposes. Despite her skepticism, Ani agrees, and they elope at a wedding chapel. She quits her job and moves into Vanya’s mansion. When news of the marriage reaches Russia, Vanya’s mother Galina orders his Armenian godfather Toros to find them and arrange an annulment while she and Nikolai fly to the U.S.
Toros sends his henchmen, Garnik and Igor, to the house. They inform Vanya that his parents are taking him back to Russia and enrage Ani by calling her a prostitute and suggesting that Vanya only married her to obtain a green card. . . .

Much drama ensues. Made for a modest budget of $6 million, the movie has grossed $40 million, so at least it was profitable. However, there’s no way Mikey Madison would have gotten the Best Actress award had it not been for the controversy that destroyed the Oscar hopes of transgender Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón. That was amazing, wasn’t it? Transgenderism is nowadays the most fashionable cause célèbre in Hollywood, and the Oscar committee would have been delighted to give the Best Actress award to Gascón, but unfortunately for the “actress” formerly known as Carlos, he/“she” had once said some rude (if arguably true) things about Muslims on social media, and when this was discovered, it was “cancel” time for the Spanish tranny. This is how the young star of Anora got her Oscar, which then gave her the opportunity to express solidarity with “the sex worker community”:

“I just want to recognize and honor the sex worker community. . . . I will continue to support and be an ally. All of the incredible people, the women that I’ve had the privilege of meeting from that community, has been one of the highlights of this incredible experience.”

[ Church Lady voice ] Well, isn’t that special?

Because the representative of the transgender community got caught dissing the Muslim community, it’s a win for the sex worker community.

And just by the way, if you’re going to “recognize and honor” all the “incredible” women from “the sex worker community” — it was such a “privilege” just to meet them! — why not extend this gratitude to others involved in the vital business of sex work? Why not give a shout-out to the pimps and johns, and the strip club bouncers? How about being more specific about the “incredible” people and the work they do in the “community”? The strippers, the call girls, the street walkers, the meth-addicted truck-stop “lot lizards”? Go ahead and be inclusive — give a shout-out to the gigolos, the rentboys, the tranny hookers. Let’s not forget the OnlyFans girls and the legions of loyal simps who pay them money.

All this on prime-time TV. I’m sure the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are proud of themselves.



 

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