Upon reading this blog post that calls out the underlying misogyny of the Oscar awards selection process I found myself agreeing with the points made, but I feel a different way about how this should be combated.
Why should women be subject to review by a small group of people who choose, what might be, one of the greatest achievements in someones career? It just allows this systemic oppression (just like in so many other cases in every day life) to continue suppressing the achievement and success of a minority/underrepresented group.
If only there was a simple way to dissolve the Oscars as a whole and start a whole new award show that has a well thought out group of seasoned actors who are known to be neutral and won’t allow things like gender/sex to sway them.
This solution however is not one that is feasible, so there needs to be some other change.
I like the idea of changing the existing group of academy members to be a more diverse and inclusive one thus ensuring more advocation for diverse selection when it comes to it, but who is to say that if this were to be done that the changes would be sufficient.
Without a system that is completely transparent–that shows the public how these academy members are voting–there is no telling if they are truthfully who they say they are.
All in all, I try not to think much of corrupt systems like that because I tend to get all jumbled up with the large amount of thoughts that come to mind on how it should be resolved or ways it can be tweaked to make it that much better–SO, I’ll leave you with this…
Systemic oppression is something that happens everywhere and to try to fix something of less importance like the Oscars being a patriarchal selection show before you look into things like the prison industrial complex in America. There’s a lot more important stuff going on over there than women not getting enough Oscars.
William Martin. 