Emma Watson Wins Non-Gendered Acting Award! You Go…You!

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By Paul Meekin

I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies…it makes others feel like, “Oh, well, that’s not for me.” At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. Taraji P. Henson

If you ask anyone, Emma Watson fits the definition of a social justice warrior; starting a feminist book club, giving a feminist speech that resulted in death threats (but also said ‘man hating’ needs to stop), is a UN Goodwill Ambassador, and now has won MTV’s first non-gendered acting award for her work in the remake of “Beauty & The Beast.

“MTV’s move to create a genderless award for acting will mean something different to everyone. But, to me, it indicates that acting is about the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and that doesn’t need to be separated in two different categories,” she said.

She ain’t wrong. It will mean different things to different people. To many it’s a sign of progress. To some it’s an opportunity for actors who push the boundaries of gender. To others it’s eliminating half the field and results in less opportunity for actors and actresses to be recognized.

And if you’re like the typical reader of this noble publication you’re possibly rolling your eyes pretty hard right now. And I get that. To the laymen this feels tacky and opportunist. Toss in the fact the award just happened to go the most socially progressive nominee, and well, it’s enough to raise an eyebrow.

(Personally my pick would have been Taraji P. Henson in “Hidden Figures,” playing a character so far from her role on ‘Empire” I had to ask my girlfriend if they were the same person.)

So is this whole thing progressive malarky? A flailing corporate entity trying to garner some young people credibility and positive press by ‘changing it up’ in the name of equality?Are Ben Shapiro and The Daily Wire right when they state this sort of thing is killing the country and is stupid?

In order? Yes. Yes. No and…I don’t think it matters. Hollywood is the free-market defined. It goes to where the money and popular sentiment is, and the popular sentiment currently rests firmly in the blurring – and potential elimination of – the lines between male and female. MTV is a network ostensibly for young people, and this is sort of thing young people want.

…And this is what we want, too, right? You can’t ask for free markets and freedom from government control and oversight, then be outraged when that free market breaks from your personal beliefs.

Be upset, think it’s stupid. Don’t watch. But is this really going to ruin the country? I somehow doubt it. If it does and it hits Hollywood’s bottom line, you bet your box office they’ll self correct.

Was Jared Leto in “Dallas Buyers Club” an actor because he’s a biological male, an actress because his character identifies as female, or is he somewhere in between. How do you categorize that? Should you categorize that? The Grammys don’t have gendered categories, and recently the Emmys stated actors are allowed to enter whatever acting category they wish.

MTV decided not to categorize. From a libertarian perspective ‘we’ should be perfectly fine with what they choose to do, even if we don’t support it. MTV is a private company, the MTV Movie Awards are a private event, and they’re allowed to do pretty much whatever they want. In this case they tried something ‘progressive’ and it just so happens a ‘progressive’ actor won.

Who knows whether it will catch on. Who knows whether Oscar or Emmy will pick up on it and continue the trend.

After all, these things are so political.

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