In a desperate attempt to be hip and with it, daddy-o, the Brit awards scrapped its male and female categories for best artist and replaced them with one “gender-neutral” list. Imagine the woke puzzlement, shading into apoplexy, when all five shortlisted acts were male.
The left was angry, but simply didn’t know what to say. Apart from one marvellously dim columnist who studied the result, scratched his little head and opined:
“My view is gender-neutral awards should reserve 50 per cent of nominations for women.”
I was wondering who that was and, of course, it was Owen Jones.
Quite restrained for the filthy little shit. You’d normally expect him to demand that 51 per cent of winners be women. Then again, he probably doesn’t know (or wouldn’t with clarity, say) what a woman is nowadays, would he/she/it?
The whole mess was totally predictable though.
How does Owen’s 50% idea deal with the fifth nomination? M>F or F>M
Asiaseen: more MTFs obvs! The aging twink reported me for pointing out medical interventions on Ts were physically harmful. Elon’s Prague spring over on his place has been very short…
Would Mr Blobby qualify for a gender neutral award?
My view is gender-neutral dopey twat awards should reserve 100% of nominations for Owen Jones
@ asiaseen
50% reserved for women, but none reserved for men so out of 5 at least three go to women (or, maybe, two women and one “transwoman” – d’you think that was what Owen Jones was aiming for?). If one of the women is actually first or second on merit then she gets one of the open places and it ends up with four women and one man.
Surely the obvious solution would be to have Best Male Actor, Best Female Actor (given that we can’t say actress anymore…) and Best Actor. They could, if they wanted to, have Best LGBTQ dadidaada Actor, but there comes a point, fairly quickly, when the award becomes a label of one’s sexuality, and nothing to do with acting….
And what’s the betting that it would be determined that the Best Actor ward would have to rotatethrough the sexual options?
It’s amazing the mental knots lefties tie themselves up in over trivial stuff like this. It is amusing to watch though.
At least the old BPI Awards had some honesty about them: “Best Selling Single…”.
Surely the obvious solution would be . . .
. . . neutron bomb the entire gathering?
I’ll settle for the TV free existence that keeps it out of my life. Though it’s disturbing how much can get through with just a quick scan of MailOnline.
Last year was also gender neutral, so let’s look at the winners:
Female (9):
Album: Adele
Artist: Adele
Single: Adele
Pop: Dua Lipa
Dance: Becky Hill
New: Little Simz
International Artist: Billie Eilish
International Song: Olivia Rodrigo
Rising Star: Holly Humberstone
Male (4):
Rock/Alt: Sam Fender
Hip hip: Dave
Producer: Inflo
Songwriter: Ed Sheeran
Group (2):
Group: Wolf Alice (Male & Female)
International Group: Silk Sonic (Male)
I think it would be fair to say that that year’s awards were dominated by women. I don’t remember hearing any complaints about that.
And even this year, two acts got four nominations each: Harry Styles (male) and Wet Leg (female duo). I don’t see any evidence of bias.
It’s unconscious bias, Charles. 🙂
“We are all guilty”, he added, before anyone could stop him. I think Michael Wharton was actually Wells’s Time Traveller, reporting back on the world in 2023.
Hip hip: Dave
Something new to me but I am rather old.
Perhaps Dave is a bit of a Hooray Henry?
All of this could be solved in four words: Better luck next year.
Why not Straight White Male Film Awards? All the usual categories, Best Actor, Co-star, Director, Producer, Key Grip etc. etc. but for straight white blokes only.
Then have another one for White Female Film Awards, others for LGBTQIA++, Black Straight bloke (cont. P94).
The makers of red carpets would wet themselves at the idea.
Works for MOBO doesn’t it?