Jameela Jamil has called for non-binary people to have their own category at awards shows — as pressure mounts for the Oscars to land genderless acting gongs.
The actress, 37, took to Instagram on Sunday with an impassioned post about the group having an idea she says would prevent Hollywood from ‘completely shutting women out’.
It comes after the BRIT Awards sparked controversy earlier this year with their gender-neutral Artist of the Year award, leaving no female stars nominated.
Addressing the issue, Jameela said on her social media, “I’m just asking…Wouldn’t it be better to give non-binary people their own category instead of opening the door for Hollywood to completely to be excluded, given the known disproportionate number of men versus women winning at awards shows?’
“Now if we have enough non-binary talent to restructure entire awards shows, which is GREAT, we should add rather than risk erasing no?”
Having her say: Jameela Jamil has called for non-binary people to have their own category at awards shows — as pressure mounts for the Oscars to land genderless acting gongs
Opinion: The actress, 37, took to Instagram on Sunday with an impassioned post about the group having an idea she says would prevent Hollywood from ‘completely shutting women out’
She added, “This is about the Oscars wanting to get rid of gender-based acting awards. As we see with the director’s award being genderless, it’s rare to even see a female nominee win,” she captioned the post.
“I want to open more doors and create more tables, not reduce the chances for everyone, including GNC folks.
More visibility, more categories, more winners to represent more people. ❤️,” she continued.
“I posted this on main because thousands of people in my DMs have asked me to, because they agree but for some reason are too scared to say it publicly. That is ridiculous. This is a post about inclusion, not exclusion.
“It’s about creating more space. About adding chairs to the table. We should be able to ask and discuss these things with love, compassion, and honest logic. ❤️.’
She concluded: “Ps. saying that we should do away with award ceremonies altogether is not an answer to this. Please don’t write if “burning everything down” is your only response.
“Awards shows aren’t going to go away, they’re part of this industry, they make some people happy, they enjoy watching it, it celebrates art and sometimes provides frivolous entertainment in a pretty bleak, doomsday world.”
It comes after Jameela blasted the Met Gala’s Karl Lagerfeld theme in May, claiming the event double standards in honoring a “known bigot.”
Thoughts: Addressing the problem Jameela said on her social media, ‘Just ask…Wouldn’t it be better to give non-binary people their own category’
Explanation: She added, “This is about the Oscars seeking awards for gendered acting”
The Good Place star denounced the “selective cancellation culture” displayed by organizers and attendees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s annual benefit, which took place Monday.
This year, the Met Gala honored the Chanel designer who passed away in 2019 with the theme Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.
The event was attended by a host of big names, including many stars praised for their outspoken feminist views, including Florence Pugh, Emily Ratjkowski, Michaela Coel and Janelle Monae.
Jameela denounced the fact that people had chosen to “gleefully ignore” some of the late designer’s “cruel” opinions, while still calling for others to be canceled with whom they disagreed.
Jameela wrote on Instagram, “Last night Hollywood and fashion said the quiet part out loud as many celebrity feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level a man so publicly cruel to women, fat people, immigrants, and to sexual assault survivors. violence.
And all women’s publications and spectators online chose to gleefully ignore it.
“No one has perfect morals, least of all me, but Jesus Christ, we had a year to correct course here and not give the highest possible credit to a known bigot… and everyone suddenly decided that we had lost the art can separate from the artist when *convenient*.
“And it’s one rule for us and another rule for everyone else. Last night we waived our right to be taken seriously at all about something important.’
Jameela used the caption of her post to highlight “slippery tactics and double standards” and warned people to think about her points before the next presidential election.
She wrote, “This is not about canceling culture. It’s not even about Karl. It’s about showing how selective cancel culture is within liberal politics, in the most blatant way yet.
“It’s about showing why people don’t trust liberals. Because of slippery tactics and double standards like this.
And it’s not just Hollywood here, the general public online joined in and was completely complicit in obliterating the truth last night.
“Last night they replaced their pitchforks with spoons to eat that up… If we keep going like this, don’t be alarmed if we lose the next election.”
This isn’t the first time Jameela has criticized the decision to honor Karl, who died in February 2019, at the Met Gala.
Oh dear: It comes after Jameela blasted the Met Gala’s Karl Lagerfeld theme in May, claiming the event double standards in honoring a “known bigot”
RIP: This year’s Met Gala honored the 2019 deceased Chanel designer with the theme Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty
After the theme was announced, she shared a series of screenshots that highlighted the designer’s controversial previous comments.
She captioned her post, “Why is THIS we’re celebrating when there are so many AMAZING designers out there who aren’t bigoted white men?” What happened to everyone’s principles and ‘advocacy’.
“You cannot stand up for justice in these areas and then attend the celebration of someone who revealed his own public contempt for marginalized people.
‘Sorry but no. This isn’t the ’90s. We didn’t fight all this shit to throw it all away because some white guy made fancy clothes for people’s skinny favorites… come on.’