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Non-Gendered Acting Roles
IMDB. It is now 2020. Why are we still gendering actors? No other job category requires a gender. Why should actors?
Please provide a non-gendered option for people who prefer their gender to be removed from their work. (i.e. everybody).
Thanks,
Amelia
Please provide a non-gendered option for people who prefer their gender to be removed from their work. (i.e. everybody).
Thanks,
Amelia
charles_paxton_martin
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5 years ago
In Spain where I live, there have always been ACTRICES and ACTORES, and few people would have it any other way. Plus we have Presidentas, directoras and so forth.
The same goes for other European languages I know.
No-one should feel slighted by this, but if they do, let them just 'do their own thing.'
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MykolaYeriomin
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5 years ago
In Ukraine, for example, feminitves for most professions were just recently introduced, so we do have a feminitve for "director", among other things. It is considered by most a progressive move, so it's interesting to see that the very opposite is in demand in an English-speaking world. Although, of course, there are specifics attached to this situation in acting, which could merit for its own book or article.
I do think that the middle grounds and other options are needed too and for multiple reasons: many times while adding names from end credits there are some cases which need further re-checking in terms of gender and that still might not help, leaving contributor with the only option of assuming actor's gender, which is not exactly a great thing on many levels.
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adrian
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