Rose McGowan cancels future appearances after public shouting match at Barnes & Noble book event
'I have given enough'
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Your support makes all the difference.Rose McGowan was embroiled in a public shouting match with a transgender woman at her Barnes & Noble book event on Wednesday.
Since then, the actor and activist — a prominent member of the #MeToo movement and one of the first women to make allegations against Harvey Weinstein — has cancelled all upcoming public appearances in support of her new autobiography Brave
“I am cancelling upcoming public appearances because I have given enough,” she wrote on Twitter. “I have given beauty, in return I was VERBALLY ASSAULTED for two full minutes, Barnes & Noble, by an actor paid to verbally assault a woman who has been terrorised by your system. And no ONE in that room did anything
“And everyone from my publicists, to 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.”
She then asked for an apology from the manager of the venue where the event was held, along with “all security people, and the audience, who did nothing and let the paid verbal assault of an assaulted woman happen.”
At the events, McGowan took pre-approved questions from audience members, things heated up when someone asked about her previous comments regarding transexuals.
“I have a suggestion,” the audience member said. “Talk about what you said on RuPaul. Trans women are dying and you said that we, as trans women, are not like regular women. We get raped more often. We go through domestic violence more often… You do nothing for them. Trans women are in men’s prisons. And what have you done for them?”
McGowan then had a meltdown of her own onstage saying, “Don’t label me, sister. Don’t put your labels on me. Don’t you f****** do that. Do not put your labels on me. I don’t come from your planet. Leave me alone. I do not subscribe to your rules. I do not subscribe to your language. You will not put labels on me or anybody. Step the f*** back. What I do for the f****** world and you should be f****** grateful. Shut the f*** up. Get off my back. What have you done? I know what I’ve done, Goddammit.”
As the transgender woman was removed by security and audience members said “I love you” tot the actor, McGowan concluded her monologue with trying to differentiate between what happens to women and trans women.
"Trans women are women and what I’ve been trying to say is that it’s the same," McGowan said. "The stats are not that dissimilar. When you break it down, it is a much smaller population. There’s not a network here devoted to your f****** death. There’s not advertisers advertising tampons with a camera lovingly going up a girl’s body as she’s being lovingly raped and strangled. Piss off. And until you can collect that f****** check, back up. My name is Rose McGowan and I am obviously f****** brave.”
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