Gender neutral BRIT awards only give 33% of nominations to women

[thisguyN 616]

19 hours ago, TasteofaFish said:

The gender neutral award gets a gender debate 

Why not just do 50/50? It's not that hard?

why put a quota? Does it mean every single year each gender has absolutely equal output? This is actually unfair. We should be able to think beyond genders and rate the material produced, and quotas don’t help achieving that.

as another user already pointed out, representation for the sake of representation is not good. 

[insight 2,428]

8 hours ago, andrea brisea said:

I think their feelings are valid, trans feelings are valid, don't you think??

but I also think that award shows need to learn a lot before creating gender nutral categories, they're not ready for that change and we can see it OG post.

It's not about the validity of feelings. 

Belonging to an award gendered category shouldn't be a concern. Just be grateful you got nominated.

[insight 2,428]

Just increase the number of nominated artist per misgendered categories (i.e. 5 male + 5 female)

[Oriane 20,052]

The ignorance in some of these answers 

[Andrea B 16,506]

1 hour ago, insight said:

It's not about the validity of feelings. 

Belonging to an award gendered category shouldn't be a concern. Just be grateful you got nominated.

so female feelings aren't valid either or just trans feelings in general? just to make things clear.

[insight 2,428]

1 hour ago, andrea brisea said:

so female feelings aren't valid either or just trans feelings in general? just to make things clear.

I was fine with the Brit Awards gendered categories. The newly genderless category is not ok with me. 

i think that the lack of female representation in that award category should not come at the expense of validating someone's feelings.

[Andrea B 16,506]

1 hour ago, insight said:

I was fine with the Brit Awards gendered categories. The newly genderless category is not ok with me. 

i think that the lack of female representation in that award category should not come at the expense of validating someone's feelings.

I don't like the genderless category too but sam's feelings are valid, he's not a man nor a woman so he has every right to feel uncomforable, they're not the problem. the problem are the people who are only voting for men.

[Andrea B 16,506]

just like I said they need to make a new nb category and keep the binary ones for men and women(cis and trans)

[Teletubby 139,462]

1 hour ago, andrea brisea said:

just like I said they need to make a new nb category and keep the binary ones for men and women(cis and trans)

the reason they put everyone in one category is that there are not enough British artists who would qualify if there was non-binary category (the rule is Top 40 album or two Top 20 singles in the eligibility period.) this year, even Sam Smith wouldn't be eligible.

[RadioIsOurs 13,835]

It does reflect the current state of our society...