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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOscar categories should be gender neutral?
Good topic for debate. What side do you come down on?
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Oscar categories should be gender neutral? (Original Post)
True Dough
Nov 2022
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msongs
(67,406 posts)1. maybe the person could start a separate awards show nt
Haggard Celine
(16,846 posts)2. I doubt that would happen.
Men's roles and women's roles in movies are difficult to compare. They move the plot in different ways. Sometimes a man has the lead role, and sometimes a woman does. But sex is important to people. Maybe that will change in the next few hundred years, but not yet.
Joinfortmill
(14,420 posts)3. I get it, but this way a man and a woman win.
Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)4. If it will cut the time
of the show in half, I'm all for it.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)5. Of the 23 categories
there are 4 that are gender-specific. The Oscars are broken enough don't break them more.