All 5 Brit nominees for Artist of the year (Gener neutral) are……..

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Men………Quelle Surprise

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/bizarre/21025033/harry-styles-leads-brit-award-nominations-2023/

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I genuinely thought that they'd make an effort to include token women for the first few years in order to prove us bigots wrong!

That would have required self awareness, I guess.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_Award_for_British_Female_Solo_Artist

Female solo artists 1977-2022. Interesting bit of history.

Good while it lasted, eh?

Well that was predictable. Perhaps the generation who are pushing for all this crap need to learn for themselves that in reality gender neutral = men/ male. Perhaps then it will dawn on them why these separate categories were set up in the first place and start fighting to protect them.

Ah, we have at last got rid of those irritating women's rights. More space for the Special Men! Hooray!

They didn’t even try put up the pretence that in its inaugural year, that this can work for everybody and women won’t lose out- then point to the token woman Absolutely brazen.

I am shocked - the Guardian seems to have noticed and done a transphobic!

www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/12/brit-awards-2023-wet-leg-and-harry-styles-lead-male-dominated-nominations

'A year after the Brit awards abandoned the gendered categories, the nominations for the replacement artist of the year prize are entirely male, comprising Central Cee, Stormzy, Fred Again, George Ezra and Harry Styles.

The awards ceremony, run by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) did away with the best British male and best female awards in 2022 following criticism that the non-binary pop star Sam Smith would not be eligible for either prize despite their massive commercial success.'

From the Guardian, everyone! The Guardian!

let me guess, men?

How progressive!

I thought it was the first year. But it’s the second year. They must have done all the pretending last year…not worth it this time round

Well, that's not a surprise, we bloody knew this would happen. 'Gender neutral' always prioritise s men. Every single time!

Fucks sake so predictable. Yet there's probably more female artists in the charts these days than there have been at many times in history. Guess the chaps are just better than the girls!

Hahahahaha but of course - I wonder of those women so eager to hand over women’s rights & see men as so oppressed might start to join the dots

Gosh, who would have thought this would happen?

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Yeah, they did for the first year in 2022... Adele (who won) and Little Simz.

So now they've done that inclusive nod, it can be all men, all the time.

And it was just ONE individual, that caused this change. What power they have.

What a fucking surprise.

Good point. If this is what it takes for people to see the light then maybe its needed.

Just feel sorry for the female artists that miss out because their work isn’t valued.

Hope all the handmaidens are really happy now.

Absolutely shocking. Struggling to believe they have so little awareness that this can be seen as acceptable. Boycott the Brits!

Further evidence that male and female have been appropriated by the gender nutters. Special, non binary Sam Smith is and always will be male so would always have been eligible for inclusion in the male category.

Slow hand clap for Mr Smith, what an utter attention seeking twat.

It really makes no sense at all, does it. Up to now lots of awards ceremonies have had separate categories for Male and Female performers of various types, so you might have (say) five women on the Female shortlist and five men on the Male shortlist. Now presumably it's five people, who could in theory be male or female, on the one shortlist. So half the number of awards for performance. Given these are the super high profile awards at any ceremony, doesn't that mean they're reducing the PR impact of their own event?

I genuinely thought they’d make an effort for a few years at least.

Has Sam Smith been nominated for Best Group? I hear they're quite talented.

I was following the Golden Globes live Twitter thread a few days ago, and wondering how long it will be before the best actor categories are made gender neutral...?