Brit Awards is getting rid of Male and female categories
Brit awards wanted to be more inclusive to the non Binary community. Singers like Sam Smith and Demi Lovato do not identify as neither men or women. They use They/Them pronouns. To be more inclusive, the Best Male Artist and Best female artist will be replaced by Best British Artist. The Best International Male and female will also be merged into one gender-neutral category. Rather than being inclusive, this change will screw over the women. Look at the Best director and Screenplay Category in Oscars, the nominees are always male. Though women had won those gender-neutral categories before, it was always once in a blue moon. This make me question of Brit Awards is doing the right decision.
There have been petitions before to remove the best actress category and make both genders compete for a single Best Actor category.
If you remove the best actress category, women will rarely win an acting award again. Male leads are still dominating Hollywood in success and pay.
There are successful female lead films but it is an uphill battle. It is not a balanced battlefield. Look at those contests decided by fan votes, the audience always votes for men.
If you will look at the Music charts right now, Most of the charting artists are men. Though female singers have longer careers, the Majority of artists dominating the carts are males.
Why don’t Brit Awards just make a 3rd category for the non-binary community?
Sure the nominees could be just two which are Sam Smith and Demi Lovato but it could give mainstream attention to more Independent artists.
Their attempt of being inclusive and progressive put female nominees at disadvantage. The music industry is mostly dominated by the teenage female audience and they always resonate with Male singers. People in Power when it comes to entertainment industry are always men. That gives men advantages in these gender neutral award categories.
Mikelo
November 16, 2022 @ 10:16 pm
Getting rid of the male and female categories doesn’t sit well with me. The non-binary category will be one sided.
Jaspreet
November 17, 2022 @ 3:10 am
I don’t understand why do they need to do that and if they like to fit them up in some category they should add another category as this way they are not doing any good to the talented female Artists.