@deneb correctly points out, that in an industry that values male performances over female, doing away with gendered categories in the interest of representation will largely remove women from the major awards.
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Yeah but who gets “Best portrayal of a one legged (left) trans man played by a bi black lesbian” award?
Values is the key word there ££££$$$$$$$
From the bbc on the brits:
“This year saw no women up for best artist, following the decision to scrap best male and best female awards in favour of gender-neutral prizes.”
I wonder on what basis this decision was taken and exactly how many people affected by previous award years were keen for this change.
Or was it just done for the optics?
Probably.
Box ticking.
The fisherthem catching all sorts with that bait.
whomever identifies as such, wins.
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Imagine being a crewthem on a fishing boat with they.
Helping the galley cook with the themifest before setting sail.
Out at sea catching cod, theming, and themta rays.
Back to port, unloading the catch on the quayside, watching out for loose themhole covers.
Then the auction themager getting the skipper a good price for the catch.
Celebrating with a few pints and a ploughthems with themgo chutney
Not to be cynical but, did Sam Smith have to stop themself from saying ‘fisherman’? It’s almost like it’s an everyday word for something and that it very easily rolls off the tongue. I for one wouldn’t have been offended had they used the word.
Pair play to them though. They did not get offended when the (insert the preferred pronoun) presenter asked whether they’d be a fly fisherMAN. 
I’m a flyfisherman, couldn’t give two shits what the aforementioned person called themselves.
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In Singapore, our Health Ministry just updated the term for Monkey Pox to MPox as a directive suggested by WHO because of possible stigma…not to say I know how monkeys feel…but I don’t feel any hatred towards monkeys for it being called monkey pox?
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What about Chicken Pox? Should that be changed to Chipox? Maybe Chinese would be offended, or people from Chicago? It’s a minefield!
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Personally I feel it’s to a nonsense level, that time has to be spent on these things. It probably didn’t help that China reacted negatively to the Wuhan virus name and insist that it’s used politically, and then in some western countries to have cases of Asidn hate because of Covid, so with both ends of these nonsense spectrum, we start having such nonsense. It’s not new though with Peta insisting that raining cats and dogs were detrimental to the image of cats and dogs.
BTW these are animal friendly idioms thst Peta suggested.
EDIT: Just realized it’s a really long list
Instead of: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Try: An ace in the hand is worth two in the deck
Instead of: Act like an animal
Try: Act like an ogre
Instead of: A feather in your cap
Try: A flower in your cap
Instead of: Ants in your pants
Try: Itches in your britches
Instead of: Ape
Try: Impersonate
Instead of: Back the wrong horse
Try: Back the wrong team
Instead of: Badger
Try: Bother
Instead of: Bark up the wrong tree
Try: Chase down the wrong lead
Instead of: Bats in your belfry
Try: Noodles in your noggin
Instead of: Be the guinea pig
Try: Be the test tube
Instead of: Beat a dead horse
Try: Feed a fed horse
Instead of: Be catty
Try: Backbite
Instead of: Bee in your bonnet
Try: Thorn in your side
Instead of: Be in the doghouse
Try: Be on someone’s bad side
Instead of: Bigger fish to fry
Try: Bigger fish to free
Instead of: Birdbrain
Try: Pea brain
Instead of: Blind as a bat
Try: Blind as the eyes on a potato
Instead of: Bring home the bacon
Try: Bring home the bagels
Instead of: Build a better mousetrap
Try: Build a better mouse pad
Instead of: Bull in a china shop
Try: Tornado in a glass factory
Instead of: Can’t teach an old dog new tricks
Try: Can’t teach an old clown new tricks
Instead of: Cash cow
Try: Moneymaker
Instead of: Catch more flies with honey
Try: Befriend more flies with molasses
Instead of: Chicken out
Try: Lose your nerve
Instead of: Cry over spilt milk
Try: Cry over spilt Silk
Instead of: Curiosity killed the cat
Try: Mind your own business
Instead of: Dirty dog
Try: Filthy fiend
Instead of: Dirty rat
Try: Dirty rascal
Instead of: Dog and pony show
Try: Halftime show
Instead of: Dog-eat-dog world
Try: Cut-throat world
Instead of: Dogfight
Try: Free-for-all
Instead of: Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
Try: Don’t count your chips before they’re cashed
Instead of: Eat crow
Try: Eat your words
Instead of: Eat like a pig
Try: Gluttonize
Instead of: Every dog has its day
Try: Every dog has to play
Instead of: Fish or cut bait
Try: Cook or get out of the kitchen
Instead of: Fly in the ointment
Try: Sand in the gears
Instead of: Fox guarding the henhouse
Try: Vampire guarding the blood bank
Instead of: Get off your high horse
Try: Come down off your pedestal
Instead of: Go to the dogs
Try: Go to pot
Instead of: Have a dog in this fight
Try: Have a stake in this game
Instead of: He’s a catch
Try: He’s a match
Instead of: Hog
Try: Monopolize
Instead of: Hold your horses
Try: Cool your jets
Instead of: Hooked
Try: Obsessed
Instead of: Horsing around
Try: Messing around
Instead of: Hounded
Try: Hassled
Instead of: Kill two birds with one stone
Try: Feed two birds with one scone
Instead of: Let the cat out of the bag
Try: Spill the beans
Instead of: Like a chicken with its head cut off
Try: Like your hair is on fire
Instead of: Look like the cat who swallowed the canary
Try: Look as guilty as sin
Instead of: Mad as a March hare
Try: Mad as a hatter
Instead of: Madder than a wet hen
Try: Madder than an Internet troll
Instead of: Make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear
Try: Make a diamond bracelet out of a lump of coal
Instead of: Milk it for all it’s worth
Try: Juice it for all it’s worth
Instead of: More than one way to skin a cat
Try: More than one way to peel an orange
Instead of: Not my circus, not my monkeys
Try: Not my problem
Instead of: Not my first rodeo
Try: Not my first roadshow
Instead of: Off the hook
Try: In the clear
Instead of: One-trick pony
Try: One-trick magician
Instead of: Open a can of worms
Try: Open Pandora’s box
Instead of: Packed in like sardines
Try: Packed in like pickles
Instead of: Parrot
Try: Mimic
Instead of: Pig out
Try: Hoover it up
Instead of: Pigheaded
Try: Hardheaded
Instead of: Pony up
Try: Pay up
Instead of: Pull a rabbit out of a hat
Try: Pull a coin out of an ear
Instead of: Pull the wool over your eyes
Try: Pull the polyester over your eyes
Instead of: Pussyfoot around
Try: Tread lightly
Instead of: Put all your eggs in one basket
Try: Put all your berries in one basket
Instead of: Put lipstick on a pig
Try: Gild the lily
Instead of: Put the cart before the horse
Try: Put the caboose before the engine
Instead of: Quit cold turkey
Try: Quit cold tofu
Instead of: Rat out
Try: Nark
Instead of: Ruffle your feathers
Try: Mess up your hair
Instead of: Shoot fish in a barrel
Try: Steal candy from a baby
Instead of: Sitting duck
Try: Easy target
Instead of: Smell a rat
Try: Smell a rotten apple
Instead of: Snail mail
Try: Molasses mail
Instead of: Stubborn as a mule
Try: Stubborn as a fool
Instead of: Talk turkey
Try: Talk Tofurky
Instead of: That dog won’t hunt
Try: That boat won’t float
Instead of: That really gets my goat
Try: That really gets my goatee
Instead of: The straw that broke the camel’s back
Try: The strawberry that broke the gardener’s basket
Instead of: The world is your oyster
Try: The world is your oyster mushroom
Instead of: Walking on egg shells
Try: Walking on thin ice
Instead of: Weasel
Try: Con man
Instead of: We were chomping at the bit
Try: We couldn’t contain ourselves
Instead of: Wild goose chase
Try: Wild gooseberry chase
Instead of: Wolf in sheep’s clothing
Try: Flim-flam man
Instead of: Your goose is cooked
Try: You’re dead in the water
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Batman and Robin
Del and Rodney…
Nah, if it gets shortened, surely it must be Chickpox. Chipox is potentially offensive to Chinese, so we can’t use them
Sexist!
Let’s not get into discussing smallpox…
Yes, they did nearly slip up.
Personally, I struggle to get my head around all this stuff. I find it absurd to the point of comedy, but what people want to call themselves has little to no effect on me.
My missus has a person she works with who wants to be called Mix. That’s their pronoun apparently, and they get shirty if someone gets it wrong by mistake. That’s where I’d take issue, that’s obviously unreasonable.
I don’t know where we go with this issue. Some of the loudest trans activists are insufferable and spout some next level nonsense, and on the other side the anti-woke brigade are so callous and nasty they rejoice in the deaths of trans teenagers.
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