after non-white actresses Jennifer Lopez, Awkwafina, Cynthia Erivo and Lupita Nyong'o were passed over in favour of Margot Robbie and Scarlett Johansson, who were each nominated twice.
"I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong," he said. His comment immediately attracted significant criticism, with feminist author and scholar Roxane Gay saying she was disappointed to hear his view.
Amazing that something so reasonable can be a controversy
Hear hear. Most Asians (me incl) prefer Western fashion over our own traditional gowns, so really about taste, not diversity.Let's just be colour blind to whoever is behind the art. Didn't Martin Luther King dream that his children be judged by character,not colour?StephenKing
There isn't any case where judging the quality of art based on race or sex is rational. The people lambasting and trying to 'educate' SK are the reason people are looking to the right.. better the devil you know and can live with rather than the one who wants to marginalise you.
where is all this women directed kino at then?
didn't he write a book about aliens that explode out of people's butts
I agree w/ Stephen King. To expect to win simply b/c you are a woman or a minority is saying men are right all along & that you can't win based on merit alone. It should be about the work & the work only. If he is biased & that is the crux that is different.
How disappointing. I thought he'd know better. That's like the old line (still used today), where blokes insisted they will only appoint a person on merit ... but the evidence showed women had to have ten times more merit than blokes to get a guernsey. sexism StephenKing
Diversity shouldn't be a factor in *anything* that is a matter of merit, not just the arts. Pretty simple.
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