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I get really frustrated with things like ‘the nominees are all white’ or ‘they are all male’ etc. Whatever happened to the best person winning/getting the job? Why should a percentage be female or gay or non white etc? That is just screwing with results that should be based on the best person winning

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You can’t give an award to someone not in the race (no pun or double meaning intended). If the majority of actors and directors in the business are white, then it stands to reason that the majority of awards are going to be white too.

Is the movie industry institutionally racist? Probably not on purpose, e.g. they do not set out to be racist. However, they are ruthlessly commercially minded, which is why we live in an age of test screenings, re-shoots and white-washing roles because they think a known white actor is going to bring in more bank than an ethnically accurate actor from overseas.

The film industry always reminds me of the things we’re good at in the Olympics, usually involving having expensive equipment like bikes or boats, etc. No film director gets their gig from JobCentre Plus. Most of them have been dicking around with expensive AV equipment all their lives.

There are other barriers to entry, such as gatekeepers, the not-what-you-know culture that comprise the industry’s major commercial movies.

I do think it’s a problem, but it’s not one solved by screaming about awards ceremonies.

But the opportunities for marginalised people to get to be making those films isn’t in their favour. There should be more representation from women and people of colour or disabled people etc.
The same set of people are making the same set of films. It’s hard for others to get in and make something different.
I was walking down a tube station corridor the other day. The array of films advertised were predominantly all male white casts or one woman as a token.
14% of the USA is Black and 16% is from Latin America so you would think there would be some representation from them. 50% of the population is female so they really should have more representation.

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Harry and Meghan to step back as senior royals.

Could they all do that? Maybe get some proper jobs etc.

This is all HER work. Harry wouldn’t have wanted this. The bloody bitch.

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/makes whip sound

Interesting, I hadn’t made the slave connection until you brought it up

:copyright: Jim Davison

I don’t see what the fuss is all about. Harry Hewitt has never been a senior royal. Except perhaps in the mind of Nicholas Witchell and the saddos gathering outside the church at Sandringham on Sundays to wave their flags, who probably think that Cinderella is a documentary.

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I wonder if this being driven by the fact he the cookoo in that nest. Don’t blame him really, given how fucked up and dysfunctional that family are…

Am concerned about Cinderella mind, was hoping to get an update from Channel 4’s Dispatches

What was surprising was none of the other royals were aware this was coming

Just from a decency POV you would have thought a phone call would have been in order prior to release

Amongst other things I think they have the hump because they want their own staff structure and the Queen said fuck off, if I am paying for them they are part of the royal household

I suspect they will be told you are either in or out - you cannot pick and choose what suits you whilst cashing in - Meghan autobiography for next Xmas

I chortle that many of the most outraged by the Meghanmillions independence scheme are those who are outraged that they have to pay for the Royals…

One should have added that I really do t give many fucks about any of them… and also find it rather sad we live in a nation of weird fuckers who do (‘life size inflatable of E.T’ is a classic from Mr Lee)

I’m almost in the news…
Well, where I spend a lot of my time is and will be.

75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is on 27th January. Prepartions are well under way on the site of Birkenau

And the political rows are beginning

Yes Jews were exterminated. But so were Polish Citizens and obviously Polish Jews made up a very large proportion of them. But hey, Putin is re-writing history.

Daily mirror reporting that Megan Markle slapped Camilla over the Christmas period. It’ll be the Queen next. I knew she was poison.

I recently found out Katie Hopkins is the same age as me.

I never realised she posted here.

Bournemouth University makes BBC News headlines

:woman_facepalming:t2:

I sometimes feel we should wear those all in one lycra things which leave nothing to the imagination and would resolve a lot of this type of thing.

I’m in.