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

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.
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The 97th Annual Academy Awards will be hosted by stand-up comedian and former
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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.
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The controversial musical crime drama “ELILIA 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*
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*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.)
The destruction of language is a big part of what the progs do. They make edicts about what you can and can't say and if you choose not to play along, they and their friends shun you socially and treat you like you're a Neanderthal for not going along with their nonsense. You can protest but you know it will fall on deaf ears: their followers are too afraid to dissent from the views the self-styled elites are pushing. Apologists will say that it's no big thing and it's not worth making a fuss over but the foundations of society itself are being undermined by all these cultural termites gnawing away at every aspect of life.
If Trump can stop this - or, ideally, reverse it - he will have done a massive service to America and whatever other parts of the world imitate this example. I'm hoping Canada will be one of those parts, once we've got a sensible government again.
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Rhino