The left spots fake reality only when Hollywood gets hurt

The left has developed a strange blind spot when it comes to artificial substitution. In entertainment, its leading voices warn that AI threatens to replace real actors, writers, voices, and images. In women’s sports, many of those same voices insist that biological reality can be redefined without consequence.

The two issues may seem unrelated. They are not. Both turn on the danger of allowing what is artificial to replace what is real.

The left sees the problem when the artificial threatens its own institutions. It refuses to see the problem when women and girls pay the price.

Charlize Theron recently criticized Timothée Chalamet for disparaging ballet and opera after he said, “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep