{"id":1444600,"date":"2022-04-18T17:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T21:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444600"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T21:29:41","slug":"journalist-slams-another-award-show-going-woke-removing-best-actor-best-actress-category-to-be-gender-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalist-slams-another-award-show-going-woke-removing-best-actor-best-actress-category-to-be-gender-neutral\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Slams Another Award Show Going Woke Removing Best Actor, Best Actress Category To Be Gender Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjournalist-slams-another-award-show-going-woke-removing-best-actor-best-actress-category-to-be-gender-neutral%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444600&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Award-trophies-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Another awards show decided to continue \u201cmore woke nonsense\u201d and remove the Best Actor and Best Actress category \u2014 to be gender neutral \u2014 in a move being criticized by journalist Rebecca Reid and others on social media.<\/p>\n<p>During the London-based journalist\u2019s appearance on \u201cGood Morning Britain\u201d Monday, things got heated after Reid explained how the removal of these categories is going to \u201churt women\u201d who she said are \u201calready under-represented in the industry,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-10727971\/Too-woke-British-Soap-Awards-axe-male-female-acting-gongs-gender-neutral.html\">reported<\/a> the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Soap Awards decided to replace the Best Actor and Best Actress Award with the Best Leading Performer Award instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean it would be better if women were on an equal playing field with men wouldn\u2019t it,\u201d Reid shared. \u201cBut unfortunately we know that\u2019s not really the case in a lot of industries. Particularly in music and in performing arts where women, generally speaking win fewer awards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd generally speaking particularly older women tend to be disadvantaged,\u201d she added, providing a stat about how she said women over the age of 40 fail to get number one hits. \u201cSo, we\u2019re not looking at a world where women were treated equally. If we were, then we wouldn\u2019t need these categories at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the problem is we need categories so that we can build women up,\u201d Reid continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;All that&#8217;s happening here is that we&#8217;re moving with the times.&#8217;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndiaWilloughby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IndiaWilloughby<\/a> says it&#8217;s good the awards are &#8216;moving with the times&#8217; and &#8216;being inclusive&#8217; and non-binary people shouldn&#8217;t be forced into male or female award categories. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q3GfcvlX0C\">pic.twitter.com\/Q3GfcvlX0C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Good Morning Britain (@GMB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMB\/status\/1515960583945953281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Broadcaster India Willoughby disputed Reid and said that it was all just part of \u201cmoving with the times\u201d and being \u201cinclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll that\u2019s happening here really is that we\u2019re moving with the times,\u201d Willoughby argued, stating that \u201cyounger people particularly\u201d are \u201cidentifying as non-binary\u201d and she said it\u2019s not fair forcing artists to go into the male and or female categories.<\/p>\n<p>She argued this wasn\u2019t a \u201cwoke\u201d thing and said she\u2019s getting tired of hearing the \u201cexpression war on woke\u201d in the papers.<\/p>\n<p>Reid said she wasn\u2019t talking about trans people because she said \u201ctrans women would be judged as a women and a trans man would be judged as a man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are talking about is non-binary people who are at best 0.4% of the population, so a tiny number of people,\u201d Rebecca added, the outlet noted. \u201cWhat we are seeing here is a bit of an over-correction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is almost half the people are women, and only less than 1% of people are non-binary, so we are correcting to include a small amount of people,\u201d the London-based journalist continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;We need categories so that we can build women up.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Soap Awards have announced it is ditching best male and female categories for best leading performer. But with stars worrying this will make it harder for female actors to win \u2013 is it wrong to ditch the categories? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EDWlVz1Mcp\">pic.twitter.com\/EDWlVz1Mcp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Good Morning Britain (@GMB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMB\/status\/1515959275851595777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reid\u2019s comments were similar to those on social media who blasted the move and called it \u201cwoke nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the need in changing the names of the categories \u2026 who was getting offended by it?\u201d one person tweeted. \u201cWorld\u2019s gone nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another wrote, \u201cMore woke nonsense. There are actors and actresses. Even transgender or just the confused maintain they are one or the other. Worlds [sic] gone nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need categories, as different types of performances are better when performed by either male or female, LGBT performers still fall into one of these groups, and you can identify as anything you want, but you still fall into one or the other biological groups,\u201d a third person shared.<\/p>\n<p>The Soap Awards follows a move by The Brit Awards which took away gender classifications this year. Adele famously faced a backlash after she said she loves \u201cbeing a woman\u201d at the gender neutral awards show, as previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/adele-faces-backlash-for-saying-she-loves-being-a-woman-at-gender-neutral-awards-show\">reported<\/a> by The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? Become a member now and join our mission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another awards show decided to continue \u201cmore woke nonsense\u201d and remove the Best Actor and Best Actress category \u2014 to be gender neutral \u2014 in a move being criticized by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1444669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}