Re: Oscars Nominations Announced, Controversial Trans Drama Leads With 13 Nods

On Jan 24, 2025 at 1:55:39 PM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

 On 2025-01-24 2:47 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

 On Jan 24, 2025 at 9:02:06 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
 

 The 2025 Academy Awards nominations were announced on Thursday morning. The
 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences delayed the announcement from
 January 17 due to the ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area, which gave
 members a longer time to vote.
 
 The 97th Annual Academy Awards will be hosted by stand-up comedian and
former
 
 late-night host Conan O'Brien. The Oscars ceremony will air live from the
 Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, at 7 p.m. ET on ABC
 and Hulu.
 
 The controversial musical crime drama EMILIA PÉREZ, a film about a Mexican
 drug lord who becomes a transgender woman, led the nominations with 13 total
 nods.

 
 Talk about a complete fantasy. Cartel bosses notoriously have to sleep with
 one eye open with rivals and underlings constantly vying to take them out,
so
 the idea that one of them could become a trans-testicle and start prancing
 around in dresses in that testosterone-fueled criminal underworld and he
 wouldn't immediately be planted in the ground is nuts.
 
 Twenty-five years ago we had a mob drama called THE SOPRANOS where the
boss of
 the family had to see his therapist in secret so he wouldn't be perceived as
 weak and bumped off. Now Hollywood wants us to believe narco-terrorist drug
 lords are swishing around in skirts and their murderous sicarios would just
 accept it.
 

 *Best Actor in a Leading Role*
 
 *Best Actress in a Leading Role*

 
 And I notice that despite all their virtue signaling on gender, they're
still
 segregating their awards by male and female.
 
 Why? I mean, if it's no big deal when a dude in a dress beats the shit out
of
 real woman in a boxing ring, why should we have any gender distinction at
all
 when it comes to acting, where there actually is no inherent advantage based
 on the sex of the performer?
 
 Like everything else with the Left, it's ass-backwards. Where biological sex
 actually *does* matter, they say we should ignore it and where it *doesn't*
 matter, they insist on observing it.
 

 And yet females who act insist on being called "actors" NOT
 "actresses".... (I've never understood the reasoning behind that. It
 seems like they're channelling their inner feminist by becoming men.)
 

I believe it's because actresses consider themselves to be of lesser value
than actors. But instead of doing anything about that, they just change the
name much as a janitor thinks he's improved his lot in life by becoming a
maintenance engineer.

I once referred to Duckshoot as an actress but she was quick to take offense.
She said, "I'm an actor. There's no difference between a male actor and female
actor."

I asked her if that means she'd stand true to her principles and turn down an
Emmy or an Oscar for Best Actress should she ever be awarded one. I was given
the "But that's different!" stare of annoyance.