BBC acknowledges that 'gender neutral' could 'could actually result in less equality'

[JellySaurus]

^As a result, women could have a higher hill to climb to score a win.
In the long-term, it's not hard to imagine the outrage if a decision like this led to a repeated loss of recognition for worthy winners, particularly women.^

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63741519

EC is currently young and beautiful. EC therefore has lots of acting roles available for which EC could be nominated.

As EC ages, EC will notice these roles becoming fewer and fewer. EC may notice the same is not occuring for EC's male contemporaries. EC will find that said male actors will be getting all the nominations and EC is not. I wonder if EC will be able to join the dots at that point.

Ah, of course, yes!!

@tilder
Yes. This is a big problem.

It's not surprising to be honest. A lot of us are naive and idealistic. We're taught at school that we're equal. That there is legislation to stop women being discriminated against.

Then you get your nose rubbed in it.

I think @tilder has it spot on.

And @SirSamVimesCityWatch also nails it.

Exactly.

In fact females have been gently steered to believe they have everything, it's all fine now and naice girls wouldn't put themselves first, or talk about their needs. Selfish. The kind of thing hairy legged feminazis do, and Nobody Likes Them, Do They?

Which is the sexist view of women as everyone's mum and the servants of the human race that the equality movement was about overturning!

Endless wittering about how sex doesn't exist, and no one knows what sex anyone is, and are you a biologist? And there's not just two sexes - while at the same time showing absolutely rigid binary thinking in who benefits and gains, and who gets walked all over and punished for the crime of being born with XY chromosomes. Primarily because them existing pisses XX people off.

Sigh. And got that the wrong way around.

The rage is starting to make my brain bleed out of my ears.

who gets walked all over

I read that as "who gets wanked over" and then realised the worst thing is that it still works to make your point.

On your main point, I think it hits us as we age because it takes time for the cumulative drag between our lives and our male peers to result in noticeable differences in outcome. Like compound interest.