Make SAG Award Categories Gender-Neutral, Says Asia Kate Dillon

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Billions star Asia Kate Dillon is calling for the elimination of gender-specific categories at the SAG Awards.\n

star Asia Kate Dillon is calling for the elimination of gender-specific categories at the SAG Awards.In an open letter to three members of the SAG-AFRTA’s SAG Awards committee, Dillon, who is non-binary,the request in response to an invitation that they serve on the nominating committee for several major categories, including female actor in a leading role and male actor in a leading role.

Dillon writes that they have been very public about their pronouns since they came out as non-binary in 2016. From the letter: Separating people based on their assigned sex, and/or their gender identity, is not only irrelevant when it comes to how an acting performance should be judged, it is also a form of discrimination.

cis-women—particularly white cis-women—were considered when it came to doling out awards, though of course categories like “best director” and “best cinematographer” remained gender-neutral. But that alleged system of fairness doesn’t hold up under scrutiny, Dillon writes: In fact, Black, POC, indigenous, trans, and disabled womxn are still the most underrepresented groups at any awards show. And yet, if SAG, or the Academy, or the Emmys, or the Critics Choice Awards, decided to combat that underrepresentation by creating Best Black/POC/Indigenous actress in a leading/supporting role, that action would resoundingly read as what it was: racist and discriminatory.

 

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Vi....? Du har nok lige så store chancer for at vinde sådan en pris som jeg. Sandsynligheden er vel nærmest 0 %?

and let the men take all the awards? hell no

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