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Open Letter to the British Film Institute

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Has the BFI gone completely mad ? Using a MAN to talk about the female experience of working in film. No intelligent, articulate actual WOMEN available then ?

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Has the BFI gone completely mad ? Using a MAN to talk about the female experience of working in film. No intelligent, articulate actual WOMEN available then ?

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Anonymous
8 years ago

An insult to women to allow this homophobic, racisg, MALE be classed as a representative of women

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Munroe is a male

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Could I suggest the radical idea that BFI choose a women who works in the film industry as their key note speaker? Bergdorf is neither.

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Jean Hatchet
8 years ago

This constant prioritising of celebrity trans identified males over women is showing the open misogyny of institutions keen to uphold patriarchal systems that prioritise men over women. You aren’t even trying to hide it.

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Zoe weston
8 years ago

How can a man represent woman in the film industry? This person has no prior knowledge or experience and has not dedicated their life’s work in film like the many women who do.

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Munroe Bergdorf is not a woman and in no way represents women in the film industry.

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Bergdorf is a man acting as a woman and whilst I realize that the BFI applauds good acting let's not mistake it for reality under the influene of a powerful cult. Women will not thank you.

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Cynthia Yockey
8 years ago

Nothing changes your sex and only sex counts. The first and most important way to honor women is to acknowledge that no male can ever be female.

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Why use a male to celebrate women. It is beyond insulting.

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Chris
8 years ago

Sort your e&d policies, BFI. It’s ‘sex’ not ‘gender’.

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Tracy C
8 years ago

Disgraceful. What an ill thought out choice. Bergdorf is no role model for all those girls aspiring to be part of the film industry.

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Anonymous
8 years ago

A person with XY chromosomes should not be stealing opportunities designed to support women.

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Year of the woman. 100year since the vote. A huge year for sexism against women in the film industry and as a result a man with no film experience is chosen to talk about feminism to women instead of a woman. Insulting and Orwellian.

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Tracy Shuttleworth
8 years ago

Its 2018. Women dont need someone born male to represent us or speak for us anymore.

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SA Stanley
8 years ago

We beseech you to examine your choice : a biological male is not a woman - even if he has breasts surgically implanted. Even if he grows his hair long. Even if he changes his name and performs with a feminine manner. Womanhood is not a performance. Women cannot be surgically created. ‘Woman’ is a biological reality. Please stop adding to the dilution of that reality. Stop erasing women!

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Frederic NABET
8 years ago

This racust activist needs to stop being invited anywhere. She spreads hate and racism.

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Please allow women to speak for themselves and stop perpetuating the silencing of women in the film industry

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Leanne
8 years ago

Trans women do not have the same experiences as cisgendered women not only that she isn't even a film maker this is an absolute joke!