The push to ditch ‘best actor’ and ‘best actress’ for gender-neutral awards

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The Independent Spirit Awards is phasing out gendered prizes after a push by nonbinary actors. Some performers worry it will put more prizes out of reach for women.

The Spirit Awards have recognized excellence in independent film for nearly four decades, using categories such as best female lead and best supporting male, in line with the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys.

, Sullivan wrote: “I could not in good faith move forward with denying any part of my identity to conform to a system and structure that does not hold space for people like me.”The Tonys responded with a statement that said it was too late to adjust the awards for the current season but acknowledged “the current acting categories are not fully inclusive” and said the show is “currently in discussion about how to best adjust them to address this.

Emma Corrin, who won a best actress Golden Globe for playing Princess Diana in the Netflix series “The Crown,” explained to thein November that “it’s difficult for me at the moment trying to justify in my head being nonbinary and being nominated in female categories.” Fellow nonbinary performer Emma D’Arcy, who stars in the HBO series “House of the Dragon,”on the Golden Globes red carpet in January that their best actress nomination was “beautifully ironic.

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LLLLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLL Idiots.... You stupid people. WOOOPS IT BACKFIRED!

America’s privilege has broken its population, kinda like Rome right before it took a dive... HistoryShmistory

So what you’re saying is, men are going to win them all.

Equality at it's best!

'In response to crazy people, the Independent Spirit Awards have agreed to also go crazy.' Fixed ot for ya.

WASHINGTON COMPOST You Dems LOVE that no doubt

When are women going to deman an end to all this stupidity - non binary/non gender awards , men lurking in women’s locker rooms and playing women s sports, “trans women are real women”, removing breast on healthy young girls, …

oh, for crying out loud this shit has gone too far!

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Why does the western world care so much about gender? For thousands of years it’s been male of female, where did also these “other genders” come from?

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That’s good. There should be less judgement in the world. And people who judge must evaluate themselves more. Less hate is better overall.

There are male leads and female leads. Those are your options, if you don’t like it, stay out of the motion pictures.

So again, we are pandering to less than 1% of the population, at the expense of our absolute truths and belief systems?!?… welcome to Biden’s America

I get it, but I think we need to find another solution or category. Women also fought too hard for inclusion... idk how to not offend anyone here lol but I'm sure there's another path forward..

ReplyGPT

SCREW THAT!!!! Let the LQBZGT have their own damn awards!.. Why does the world have to change 4 them?

Not sure it will achieve the results they are hoping for - but good luck nonetheless

The promise of feminism has been fulfilled. So much so that men can be women. You asked for perversion, that is what you get.

There you go, the non existing people pushing for changes that will be detrimental to existing women! I present you the woke generation!

What is none binary?

It will but that’s the point erase women they have been thrown under the bus in the name of equality

That will make it harder for women to win anything . Makes awards a joke now .

It certainly will. Gay has hijacked Title 11 and now the Arts. Yes, I said gay.

The British awards did this and guess what? All the nominees were men. Why no open a no binary category instead of keep working in erase women? So tired of this

Here come equality at the expense of fairness

Trans people like trance music. — best I can do.

But what is a woman?

Lol *Cougar-bite-your-face-party-meme.jpg*

we are being controlled by a tiny but vocal cult.

Looks like a bloke in make up.

the grammys have never had gendered awards and no one has noticed or cared

Good thing Republicans don't care about Hollywood award ceremonies, or that would have been phrased as: 'Republican transphobes pounced on the move, claiming it would put more prizes out of reach for women.' You and I both know it would, WaPo. 😉

So instead of having categories specifically for women to increase their chances of their work being seen to neutral categories where 8 of the 10 nominees will be men. I love progressives just the best ideas.

Half the prizes then it is. Just beat actor.

Not a fan of this right now. Men still have much more control, more roles, more jobs, more opportunities… Equity should be the goal…

This is ridiculous and will hurt women

there go all the awards for women. how about having three awards for each category? Male, Female and Non-Binary.

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How is it that a few people can manage to exert such influence.

Never heard of it but I'm not surprised.

Gotta suck to be a woman these days

Just get rid of the awards. They're political, subjective, self-serving vanity trinkets. Their very existence is the opposite of inclusion.

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Revolutions destroy themselves

how many trophies are to be handed out to a 'they'?

This is what 'wokeness' is to liberalism as 'maga' is to conservativism. Why are we disintegrating?

How sad. Playing pretend does not make it reality.

God I hope this doesn’t make its way into sports.

Women are being erased.

Never heard of the award.

'Nonbinary' isn't a real thing in humans. The fact people think they're the good kind of special is pathetic at best.

The world became so creepy 🤡

Democrats believe a man makes a better women. This is an attack on women. Women need to stand up. Already transgenders are taking jobs away from women, winning beauty pageants, winning in women sports.

Makes senes....not like one gender has an advantage as they do in sports

Won't this cut the amount of awards given out in half? I understand the need, but am confused as to how it would be done and this world is still very much men-centric. So we know who will win them all. I don't know. Help me understand!!

defundwapo

I’m so tired of this!!

One more reason to decrease the relevance of award ceremonies.

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My peepaw always said men make the best women.

Sounds good on paper, but I foresee a defacto monopolization of male winners of a certain pigmentation.

This can only have the award shows with their viewers . . . NOT!! ... I suspect the ratings (of all the useless award shows) will continue to plummet (no loss in my book).

fail

What IS a woman?

Madness

It's one way to shorten awards shows - fewer prizes.

Oh for crying out loud. I'm sorry, but, seriously, Spirit Awards?

So is there just gonna be another category of awards for non-binary acting people? Like cmon it’s getting a bit ridiculous at this point even I can admit…

I can't laugh hard enough

This shit needs to stop

THIS IS DUMB. There are men and there are women. That aint ever gonna change. Boycott any show that does this. Thats a man wearing makeup, but still a MALE.

What is a woman anyways?

It will definitely shut women out of prizes.

Good luck with that...

Men in dresses sure like taking things from women….

Just stop the foolishness. Two. That's it.

Well it’s been a good run ladies. We didn’t care about things like accolades and awards anyway. It’s all good as long as these men are allowed to lives their best lives at our expense.

It’s time to eliminate gender specific sports in the NCAA . Just have open tryouts with women, men, non - binary, gender fluid, intersex, gender non-conforming, etc…that league would be 🔥

I am sure women don’t mind being sidelined. That way, men pretending to be women can get a leg up.

Shame

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahshahahahahahahahaha

Nobody watches those satanic useless awards shows anymore.

Its nice how ,,popularity,, of these events went down drastically. One can wonder why...

She is stunning

Real women are being pushed to the back of the bus and Trans are in the front.

The reality is that MANLY MAN are the one's getting excluded. Elites and Progressive agendas wants Women and GAY to takeover. Who is going to the front line when humanity needs protection? (WEEK MEN can't defend the world from TYRANNY) This is why they want your weapons too.

Why not create prizes for non-binary performers?

What's a woman?

This is too much. Women are being sidelined for the sake of trans and it’s not cool

what is a woman?

Democrats…hate women! This is the real issue on that topic.

Maybe it’s time to do away with individual awards period and just provide participation trophies. That has been a hallmark of the recent generation and has directed us to this moment. Bravo, everyone is number one!

Unbelievable

What a joke

Non-binary people are still men and women. Enough of this foolishness.

And we wonder why awards shows are dying out.

Hahahahahahhahahahahahha

It's plain stupid. Men and women are different and their roles are different.

Awards and trophies should go to the best person no matter what they relate to

It will put prizes out of reach for females, without a doubt.

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Let's see how long this experiment lasts.

Don't see what's wrong with it. If you have to hand out awards, hand em out based on the merits of the art. Not on gender.

Or maybe it will put more prizes out of reach for men.

oh good another thing conservatives had never heard of before today but now are really upset about lol

Why not add Non-binary as a class for awards? This push to exclude women and men is wrong. Removing specific classes of genders is as much racist as not recognizing non-binary people because of their choices.

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Maybe look at the people making the awards and make sure that is representative of of the population!

How to make the remaining 26 people that watch these award shows turn off the tv

How do you report this drivel.

'NONBINARY' SCHMINERY!!! What the %^&*? Screwing around with our language does not create a new gender (trinary, quinary, winery, WHINERY) FINERY. Wear your FINERY, do your individual thing. BUT CEASE SCREWING UP OUR LANGUAGE. 'Nonbinaries' DO NOT OWN OUR LANGUAGE.

The best women are men.

Wapo realizes finally that pretending there aren't two genders first and foremost harms women. Actual women.

So woke

Wth is an independent spirit award?

What’s a woman?

I don't care for actors or actress, but what else would these 'non-binary' people push next? This is absolutely pathetic, the world always has to revolve around you... Leave people alone and we won't care you're a non-binary, gay, lesbian, fruitcake. Oy vey!

Fact Check: There are no 'non-binary' actors. journalism Science

awards stores are passe they are just ego booster for one winner and the rest are haters

For who?

That's not going to happen 😕

Then I guess they want everyone to compete in the same events in the Olympics .

Could help keep awards shows shorter I guess.

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But transwomen are women! No? 😂

Freak

Keep distracting people with BS

'How can we make awards shows even more irrelevant and than they are now....'

When you’re a man of little talent or importance, but you know the left will make you famous if you pretend to be a woman.

Big mistake

It's going to lead to fewer awards for women because there are still more major roles for men.

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It will.

Really stupid. Awards are vapid anyway…. This is silly.

“And the award for Best Actx goes to…”

There are no such actors, only they Think they are that. It's a fantasy.. a fetish.. an people are not obligated to belive every delusion.

Sure. Let's change everything to suit the mental illness of a tiny minority. Honestly, at this point I don't care. The more absurd it gets the higher the likelihood that people start rebelling.

Just see the Brit Awards this year who nominated all males for their top prize when doing this.

When the awards will be given to man the actress’s will cry about not winning

This trans crap is the devil at work

'It will put more prices out of reach for women' oh so deep down you know there are women? Lol

How about no awards at all. Way too much power and money is given to these people.

Too little, too late

'there are no actors, only actresses'

Generation Woke is insane.

This is getting ridiculous…

Let's be clear there's only two genders a male and a female

The lefts push to increase mental illness

Ah yea what wld you think. Women’s rights down the toilet

Don't care, this is what you all wanted.

The degree to which this is an excellent idea is hard to overstate

No no no

Here comes someone with an eagle on their profile pic to call this “WOKE”.

That’s exactly what it will do.

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