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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

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

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JellySaurus · 25/11/2022 07:30

^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

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SirSamVimesCityWatch · 25/11/2022 17:22

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.

BellaAmorosa · 25/11/2022 17:28

FunnyTalks · 25/11/2022 15:34

I think it's how to say you want to cast a bunch of middle class private school educated kids without saying you want to cast a bunch of middle class private school educated kids.

Ah, of course, yes!!

BellaAmorosa · 25/11/2022 17:31

tilder · 25/11/2022 16:45

Maybe they believe that we have achieved equality and women are no longer disadvantaged compared to men?

I thought this until my 20s. I didn't notice the stealth sexism. It wasn't until something obvious was directed at me that the penny dropped.

@tilder
Yes. This is a big problem.

tilder · 25/11/2022 18:11

BellaAmorosa · 25/11/2022 17:31

@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.

ethelredonagoodday · 26/11/2022 09:04

I think @tilder has it spot on.

ethelredonagoodday · 26/11/2022 09:05

And @SirSamVimesCityWatch also nails it.

nilsmousehammer · 26/11/2022 09:58

BellaAmorosa · 25/11/2022 17:31

@tilder
Yes. This is a big problem.

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.

nilsmousehammer · 26/11/2022 09:59

Sigh. And got that the wrong way around.

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

FlirtsWithRhinos · 26/11/2022 23:22

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.

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