Oscars Now as Meaningless as Nobel Peace Prizes

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Eons ago, upon learning that Barak Obama, aka the Magic Lightbringer, had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for doing sweet diddly-squat, I rightfully concluded that the Nobel Peace Prize had completed its long embarrassing journey to absolute irrelevance. I opined that frivolous Canadian Idol awards meant more because at least Idol recipients had to “do stuff.”

Well, I’m happy to report that the Oscars have also completed their long sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, pilgrimage to pure pointlessness. With today’s woke-minded announcement that films must be “sufficiently diverse” to qualify for a Best Picture Oscar, the Oscars are no longer even pretending to be about quality. Frankly, it would be more honest to simply “cancel” the Best Picture Oscar and replace it with a “Wokist Picture Oscar.”

I know I should just ignore this shit, but it’s hard to resist looking down the outhouse toilet hole. To qualify for the Wokist Picture Oscar a film must meet some basic (Standard A)1 criteria:

  1. At least one actor from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group must be cast in a significant role.

  2. The story must center on women, L.G.T.B.Q. people, a racial or ethnic group or the disabled.

  3. At least 30 percent of the cast must be actors from at least two of those four underrepresented categories.

Strictly applied, Hollyweirdo’s new diversity rules would eliminate Hamlet. Hamlet has no overtly-out gay characters2, no preening lesbians, no bitchy bull dykes, no flouncing pussy boys. And, even worse, Hamlet, in all its iambic pentameter’ized glory, is about pale white Danes. Where’s the diversity?

The Hollyidiots have really jumped the shark here. The creation of art is hard enough without moronic HR-Grant-Application-Legalistic-AA3 bullshit piled on!

  1. Yes, there are more “standards.” It’s not enough to wreak the Oscars with art killing mandates; the entire process must have the exquisite eyeball rolling tedium of a corporate HR policy.↩︎

  2. We’ve all had our suspicions about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.↩︎

  3. Asinine Action.↩︎

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4 thoughts on “Oscars Now as Meaningless as Nobel Peace Prizes”

    1. Hi Ian,

      I hear you are back in the Great White North, (we’re going to have to come up more diverse phrase), thanks for the kudos.

      As for the recent UFO news, we can only hope legit physical evidence turns up, a hull fragment, an alien body, a working quantum computer stamped made on Sirus B, anything to take our minds off the freaking COVID-19 follies.

      Cheers

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