Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’
Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’
“I have a guttural, ‘That’s not quite right,’ instinct to [being called an actress],” Ramsey said. “But I just don’t take it too seriously… it doesn’t feel like an attack on my identity.”
So, genuine question. If someone is non-binary (which I believe Bella has said they are), does that mean that they are in the run for best actress? Or best actor? It sounds like it's best actress but it seems like a bit of a difficult one. What would happen with someone with pronouns opposite of their birth gender?
Bella addresses this in the article. But it’s just their personal take. It’s an easy read.
Once again the title of the article says 'gender' but the entire article only mentions sexes. Come on...
A brief explanation:
'Man' and 'woman' are now binary references to the individual's gender if known to be such, or appearance if said individual presents as mostly masculine or feminine in a social setting, as the terms have always been used to refer to a person. In contrast, 'male' and 'female' are references to the individual's sex and genitalia. Gender is not sex.
Additionally:
Gender is the name given to an aspect of personality relating to a few traits that have been defined by current societal ideals as masculine or feminine, quantified with a whole set of labels because people must be quantifiable by tickboxes, apparently. Sex is originally assigned at birth by many hospitals and population censuses once the existence of reproductive organs on the individual has been verified as male or female, and regardless of whether an internal reproductive system transplant takes place, can be changed.
Older folk are confused, because they've been referring to sexes as genders for decades. We need to get this right.
We need to get this right.
Step one is going to be working out vocabulary among yourselves before you start trying to teach it to us. I used to try to be correct, but the "correct" tends changed from person to person, group to group, and every six months or so.
Once you've figured it out, let us old folks know, and most of us will, I hope, make the adjustment.
You can try to use the new corrections every six months or so? As for who to go for, it's legitimately your choice. In the end the flow of language has to be ridden rather than restricted aha
No idea about the context of this, and I refuse to read the article. The title strikes me as implying women wouldn't be able to win awards if the categories were unisex, which I don't agree with.
The "Ensors", awards for the Flemish audiovisual sector introduced gender neutral awards last year.
Surprise, all awards went to men.
There's a huge inequality within the sector already, it's not surprising that that reflects in the awards given. It's the same as being surprised that the CEO of the year awards yet again goes to a rich white guy.
You assume an objective judgement; "if you're good, you'll succeed" (which goes straight into "see? they didn't win, that means they didn't deserve it"). The problem isn't that women aren't able to win, the problem is that the people in charge will just stop nominating women, let alone name them the winner. All of these people, in every field, everywhere, at the top, who do not have women among them, they do not care. There is money in not caring. They were not raised to care, and they raise no one to care. You have to force them.
I understand that, but I would counter:
Without spoiling the show, get up to date with the show.
I mean, that seems relatively obvious to me (best actor and actress being separate categories that is), and I bet they’re trying to stir up shit from a really simple statement she made? Quite possibly they also stoop to hand-wringing about “whatever category should we put a transgender person in?” too.
I refuse to read the article and give them clicks though.
I for one look forward to the day that a trans person wins best actor and actress both before and after transition.
gross
Who fucking cares. Why is this even being posted? Move on.
Do you...not know what community you're in?
Wait... entertainment awards are gender segregated?
The real move here is probably to allow the Nominee to select the category that they think best suits them.
non-binary wouldn't fit in either existing category. The real move here would be to eliminate gendered categories since this isn't even a sport and no gender has any distinct advantage.
While I agree in theory the problem in practice due to industry bias and sexism is basically only men will win
Yeah I'd have to say I'm in the "we need to keep the categories" camp but I admit I don't know how we would properly acknowledge bi or non-gendered or anyone between or betwixt.
And we should have a way because there is no reason someone like Bella (love them btw) won't give an award winning performance as a bi-sexual or something and then wtf do we do.
I don't know the answer.
That's true as well. They could also create more categories I suppose.