Yet again women must step aside and put men first. Enough.
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Jo Feghali
6 years ago
Why with all the talented women who could actually represent women do you chose a man, a biological MALE for this role? Unbelievably insulting to women.
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Eve Becher
6 years ago
I worked in animation for 10 years. Had to stop when I had kids, this is the situation of many of peers. The industry is inflexible for the primary carer and childcare doesn’t fit around the work hours. This means there is a mass departure of women from the industry at around the age of 30. This is one of the major structural inequalities in the industry. Clearly Bergdorf is not the correct choice to reflect this inequality
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Helen Jackson
6 years ago
Please consider a separate category for transmen and women. Their experiences of struggling to achieve any kind of recognition in a male dominated profession will be quite different. To assume groups who face oppression and prejudice have be lumped together is lazy and insulting, do better!
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Miriam Yagud
6 years ago
I object to you having a man as keynote speaker at a women's filmmakers event.
There are many reasons to question your choice of transwoman Munroe Bergdorf:
The issues of safeguarding of children but also the image of women he promotes is exclusively sexualised from a traditional male gaze and sexist.
But worse is how your choice exposes your own willingness to normalise these abusive images of women and to place them FRONT AND CEBTRE at this event shows how deeply you are complicit in the institutional discrimination of women in the film industry and inability to value the interpretation and meaning of the world as seen through the female gaze.
Admit your error, put a woman as keynote speaker and take this opportunity to ditch your historic chauvinism and RESPECT WOMENS FILM
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Jeopardy Wilm
6 years ago
Why no answer, BFI? The tide has turned, women are angry, Stonewall has been discredited over this, and you are being asked to account for your exclusionary (to women) decisions.
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Nina Cranmer
6 years ago
The title of the event is 'Woman with a Movie Camera' but once again biological females with the relevant qualifications have been passed over in favour of a transwoman who not only is not a film maker but presents a highly sexualized and gender stereotyped role of what males think that being a woman entails. Please reconsider this decision.
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Helen Pitt
7 years ago
He's horrible.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
Women should be applauded. Women are adult females. Not males.
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Lucy Allan
8 years ago
Trans women are not women.
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Francis Ghallchobhair
8 years ago
Yall are disgusting transphobes. Yikes.
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Marian
8 years ago
It is not fair and it is an insult to women. As women, we have to fight so hard to nearly get somewhere and then it is taken away or we are swept away.
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Daphne Francis
8 years ago
Please be fair to women
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Beverly Hendricks
8 years ago
Stunningly idiotic.
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Carol Moore
8 years ago
OK, BFI. You've proved how liberal and PC you are. Now go back to women born women keynote speakers, please!
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Anne Mcdowall
8 years ago
Women have struggled for centuries for recognition and equality. We’re more than half the world...couldn’t you find ONE person with lived experience of being female?
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Trish Black
8 years ago
The Description is in the title.
'WOMAN with a MOVIE CAMERA' Can you not see your own use of irony in all of this.
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Edward
8 years ago
Monroe did not attend!!! The letter worked. well done everyone.
Better late support than never
Go for it!
Yet again women must step aside and put men first. Enough.
Why with all the talented women who could actually represent women do you chose a man, a biological MALE for this role? Unbelievably insulting to women.
I worked in animation for 10 years. Had to stop when I had kids, this is the situation of many of peers. The industry is inflexible for the primary carer and childcare doesn’t fit around the work hours. This means there is a mass departure of women from the industry at around the age of 30. This is one of the major structural inequalities in the industry. Clearly Bergdorf is not the correct choice to reflect this inequality
Please consider a separate category for transmen and women. Their experiences of struggling to achieve any kind of recognition in a male dominated profession will be quite different. To assume groups who face oppression and prejudice have be lumped together is lazy and insulting, do better!
I object to you having a man as keynote speaker at a women's filmmakers event. There are many reasons to question your choice of transwoman Munroe Bergdorf: The issues of safeguarding of children but also the image of women he promotes is exclusively sexualised from a traditional male gaze and sexist. But worse is how your choice exposes your own willingness to normalise these abusive images of women and to place them FRONT AND CEBTRE at this event shows how deeply you are complicit in the institutional discrimination of women in the film industry and inability to value the interpretation and meaning of the world as seen through the female gaze. Admit your error, put a woman as keynote speaker and take this opportunity to ditch your historic chauvinism and RESPECT WOMENS FILM
Why no answer, BFI? The tide has turned, women are angry, Stonewall has been discredited over this, and you are being asked to account for your exclusionary (to women) decisions.
The title of the event is 'Woman with a Movie Camera' but once again biological females with the relevant qualifications have been passed over in favour of a transwoman who not only is not a film maker but presents a highly sexualized and gender stereotyped role of what males think that being a woman entails. Please reconsider this decision.
He's horrible.
Women should be applauded. Women are adult females. Not males.
Trans women are not women.
Yall are disgusting transphobes. Yikes.
It is not fair and it is an insult to women. As women, we have to fight so hard to nearly get somewhere and then it is taken away or we are swept away.
Please be fair to women
Stunningly idiotic.
OK, BFI. You've proved how liberal and PC you are. Now go back to women born women keynote speakers, please!
Women have struggled for centuries for recognition and equality. We’re more than half the world...couldn’t you find ONE person with lived experience of being female?
The Description is in the title. 'WOMAN with a MOVIE CAMERA' Can you not see your own use of irony in all of this.
Monroe did not attend!!! The letter worked. well done everyone.