The Brit Awards Ditched Gendered Categories Last Year. Now the Only People Nominated for ‘Artist of the Year’ Are Men…

Do I need to reiterate that woke policies and agendas hurt more people than they help?

Ironically, these policies usually end up hurting the very same people that liberals are supposedly championing. The backfire isn’t always immediate, but I feel like a year is still fairly quick.

As a critic of the gender-all-inclusive pandering scheme that society, by and large, has sold its soul to support, I usually find it entertaining to watch when it fails miserably. I’ll add this one to my tally…

From the Daily Wire:

After deciding to ditch gendered categories in an effort to be more inclusive, The Brit Awards are facing scrutiny now that this year’s nominees for “Artist of the Year” don’t include any women.

The annual showcase of British musical artists debuted its new policy last year. They replaced “Best Male” and Best Female” solo artist categories with the gender-neutral “Artist of the Year” in an attempt to be more inclusive.

A statement regarding the change said this change was meant to award “artists solely for their music and work, rather than how they choose to identify or as others may see them.”

But now for 2023, there aren’t any women on the list of contenders. The nominees for Artist of the Year include Central Cee, Fred Again, George Ezra, Harry Styles, and Stormzy.

This drew a lot of negative reactions online.

A Brits spokesperson responded to the criticism with a statement shared with HuffPost U.K. 

“Last year’s introduction of new categories aimed at making the awards even more inclusive, recognizing exceptional work rather than how artists identify,” the statement said, noting how Adele won the award last year when the gender-neutral categories debuted.

The message went on to say that while “it’s disappointing there are no nominations in the Artist of the Year category, we also have to recognize that 2022 saw fewer high profile women artists in cycle with major releases as was the case in 2021.”

As a woman, I’m not the least bit “offended” that this list only has men on it. I listen to very little current music. I collect vinyl records and cassette tapes. So, to say that I would be unqualified to comment on the substance of the selections would probably be an understatement. So, I’ll comment on the “social justice” (is that what we’re calling it?) aspect of this…

“Fairness” seems to have been lumped into the same bag of progressive taglines for sparking change as “inclusion.” I want to talk about the fairness factor in this seemingly endless equation for social righteousness…

Do you see how easily these kinds of measures to create a “fair” playing field crumble when they actually come into contact with the real world?

What causes the crumbling? I’m thinking that it has a lot to do with the fact that the real world is fundamentally unfair. If there’s no need to compete for things you want in life, there will be no need to seek a more difficult path to come out on top. In fact, there is no top.

What does this leave the world with? A lot of people who are equally miserable in a continuous loop of purposeless suffering.

The Brit Awards didn’t alter the categories for reasons that involve fairness. They did it to make people feel more comfortable. Ironically, it creates an obnoxiously large contradiction. Changes are introduced that are designed to give more people a sense of “belonging” but actually leave a larger number of people feeling unseen and unvalued.

Men shouldn’t enjoy being men. Women shouldn’t be proud of the fact that they’re women. Kids aren’t allowed to just be kids. To make a small percentage more comfortable, the masses must make themselves invisible. Rather than acting as a uniting force that helps us to see the humanity in each other, identity only seems to be an important factor if it separates us from something.

Maybe we should do a little more psychological and sociological investigation into that…