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MTV Movie & TV Awards

posted 4 years ago by DanTUtilize (282)
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What an interesting facade of what is socially going on in society today. The MTV Movie & TV Awards this year had the highest number of women and men of color win all the accolades. Every single category (Best Performance, Best Villain, Best Breakthrough) all won by white females and minorities. What's more amazing is how all the top acting awards went to black men (Though I'm happy for Anthony Mackie). The only categories to have a white male winner was Best Duo and Best Kiss.

White men are now the minorities in these award shows. In fact, if you check the nominees lists (https://www.mtv.com/movie-and-tv-awards/vote/), you'll see most categories only have 1 white male candidate. The only ones that had more than 1 were Best Kiss and Best Villain. But look at everything else. Best Performance in a Movie: Boseman, Mulligan, Cohen, Kaluuya and Zendaya. Boy are we trying really hard to be diverse or at least acquit ourselves of all this systematic racism going on in the country.

It's fascinating how during these political and social unrests that is happening right now, we have movies, music and television trying to over-inflate representation that if they dare to NOT have a female, black or gay inclusion, they'll be forever demonized as racists, sexists or homophobic. I have never seen anything like this when I was growing up in the 90s.

Anyway, I use to enjoy watching this show. But then these fools decided to add a TV component (instead of having a separate awards show for that) and combine nominees from it and movies. I mean we have movies and shows competing against each other in the same category. What other freaking awards do that? I also hated that they combined Best Male and Female performance into 1 category. (It makes plenty of worthy candidates miss out on a nomination). Now I wonder if this was to not offend non-gender binary people. (Again another political facade that should have never even been thought of). And in the finale, the Best Movie winner was a film that wasn't even nominated for anything else: To All the Boys I Love 3 (the only nomination it had).

[–] DarkHorse (297) 4 years ago

If their aim is to make their "Cause" even more meaningless than they are succeeding. Not to mention being rather racist and hypocritical in the process - to all races.

[–] DanTUtilize (282) 4 years ago

Yes, these MTV awards that believed smothering us with a disproportionate representation of demographics, in the end, they are still being racist.

[–] trevorh321 (5495) 4 years ago

I didn't even realize this happened. It's even more irrelevant than the Oscars. I never thought I'd say that.

Liberals ruin everything.

[–] beantown23 (1438) 4 years ago

I'm curious which actors lead at the box office, the trend will change if there not financially successful.

[–] Keelai (36157) 4 years ago

But, you didn't complain when women and minorities were underrepresented.

[–] jonathan_k80 (6436) 4 years ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again: All awards shows = BORING.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 4 years ago

Isn't it all arbitrary? No difference between now and before in my opinion. It was always a push of some kind. Being something of zero value to me, I don't care what they do. I hope they made someone happy. If I were a black person, I would not think that such an obvious forced scenario was complimentary. Quite the opposite.

[–] blue1981 (8190) 4 years ago

In other words its another awards show making racism socially acceptable. What makes this even worse is that this show is aimed at a younger audience to show this behavior is okay.

[–] moviechatterer (16326) 4 years ago

The biggest question is what the hell were you doing watching an awards show?
Even if it was like in "the good old days" when women and blacks wernt allowed it's still shit.
Its like watching paint dry.
Do you watch the "Plumber of the year" award shows too?
Do you get all triggered when "best female plumber" comes on?

[–] DanTUtilize (282) 4 years ago

I guess you didn't get the memo from my OP title. Would think anyone who would respond watches these shows too (doesn't even have to be specifically this awards either). Otherwise, you wasted your time (and my time) replying in here.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

well thanks for catching me up, i was gonna watch but everytime I turned it on Rupaul was talking