Open Letter to the British Film Institute

I support using women as keynote speakers at women's events.

An actual woman should be the keynote speaker for this event.

A forum to celebrate and highlight transgender issues and debates may be needed in the future. This is about women and only someone born a girl can speak from this perspective.

Good luck.

We can't let men redifine what it is to be a woman. This is the new misogyny.

In a year where we are supposed to be celebrating the centenary of some women getting the vote (Not even all WOMEN) organisations both public and private have been falling all over themselves to push forward their supposedly woke view of what a 21st century woman is..... A male proving over and over again to women and girls that the best person for a job is ALWAYS A MAN! You could have chosen to highlight disability or the lack of within the film industry class or race that impacts literally millions and millions of women but no not even in the 100th year of some women becoming enfranchised in the UK can you actually focus and celebrate actual female women.

The critics are heavily male too, and they usually love films that I don't.

The choice of Bergdorf as keynote speaker is an insult to women in film. Absolutely shameful.

Disappointed this wasn't given to a woman with experience in the film industry. Why is a model giving the keynote?

Truly an awful decision to ignore all the talented and hardworking women striving to participate and succeed in the film industry. With this you have sent a clear message that the status quo is what you’re most comfortable with; that women are lesser than men, even at events supposed to be about them. Choose a female, not a misogynist.

Seriously

Please use a proper woman and stop this silly behaviour.

Because I support women's voices in film.

What an insult to women film-makers and women film students and to women generally. Isn't there a woman — you know, one of those people with a vagina and a long history of oppression — you could find to take this role?

Please can a woman represent women?

Munroe is a man. Giving this job to a man denies a deserving women an important platform and shows other women and girls that there is little point in trying as her place will be usurped by a man in a dress.

Utterly stupid and insulting. Has the BFI lost its collective mind?

What a massive insult to w

I'm sure you could find an actual woman to fill this role.

Please select a woman to be the keynote speaker for your "Women with a camera" summit.