[DRAFT] Animation Dissertation

[Charliber]

[title] Animation Dissertation
[description] As award season nears in @@NAME@@, a kerfuffle is being raised by animation buffs, who view the judges on the award panels as largely ignorant of what constitutes a good animated film. This has somehow escalated into a political matter of national importance.

[option] "I don't see what the big deal is," condescends @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ film star, Emma Oskar. "Animation's all kiddie fare anyway. Do you really expect us to slog through a buncha schlock to find out the marginally best, hun? I don't see why these weirdos is so obsessed with children's cartoons."
[effect] What little X-rated animation exists in @@NAME@@ is regularly mismarketed to children.

[option] "It is precisely these sorts of stereotypes against animation that cause it to be so terrible," exclaims Walt Bluscher, famous animator. "Because so many media elites view animation as a medium purely of cheap trash to sell toys, lazy vehicles for toilet humor, or sappy garbage, few ever dare to try to do more, and the ones that do rarely see commercial success. @@LEADER@@, I request that you subsidize mature animation and launch some sort of cultural awareness campaign."
[effect] The mature reboots of Lightningleopards, Him-Guy, and Transmogrifiers have become smash hits in @@NAME@@.

[option] "The issue isn't that there is a lack of quality animation" says somewhat-prominent WhoTuber, Mother's Attic. "Right now, there's a plethora of beautifully-animated and deeply thought-provoking animation coming out of Honni; it's just that all but the most successful get ignored and ridiculed by culture at large, especially by those awards judges. I say a better solution is just decrease barriers of economic and cultural exchange with Honni. Heck, maybe just subsidize the import and translation of foreign animation."
[effect] Following a massive anime boom, many @@DEMONYMPLURAL@@ have begun to use gratuitous Honnese in their everyday speech, desu.

[Sacara]

Not sold on the premise. To my knowledge, there isn’t an issue about award show nominations, but this just doesn’t work imo. Maybe make it shot the lack of diversity on the award show nomination panels?

[Charliber]

[title] Particularly Plain Panels
[description] As award season nears in @@NAME@@, many equality advocates have begun to criticize the fact that the judge panels which distribute the awards barely contain any women, ethnic minorities, or LGBTQ individuals, and have begun to demand that the government take action.

[option] "The lack of diversity on these panels make these awards shows even more navel-gazing than they would be otherwise," chides equality advocate @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Experimental films about the struggles of minorities are regularly overlooked to promote more tripe about how filmmakers are so cool. I propose you implement some sort of diversity quotas on these panels, like you would any other profession!"
[effect] The latest blockbuster in @@NAME@@ stars a disabled, Bigtopian, homosexual female.

[option] "Pshaw, our organization's fine just the way it is," interjects film critic and host of the upcoming @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Film Awards, @@RANDOMNAME@@."If our panelists skew toward a particular demographic, then maybe that demographic's just better at filmmaking 'n' such. There is absolutely no reason to change anyhting."
[effect] "The Birth of @@NAME@@" was recently awarded "Best Picture" at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Film Awards.

[Sougra]

I like the idea of animation not being taken seriously, but parts of it strike me as too similar to Issue #801, and the second draft has already become an issue. I do like the Mother's Basement reference though.

[Sacara]

I like the idea of animation not being taken seriously, but parts of it strike me as too similar to Issue #801, and the second draft has already become an issue. I do like the Mother's Basement reference though.

I’m just going to stop suggesting premise changes, lol.

[Charliber]

I like the idea of animation not being taken seriously, but parts of it strike me as too similar to Issue #801, and the second draft has already become an issue. I do like the Mother's Basement reference though.

Could you tell me what the number of the issue about a lack of diversity in film award panelists is?

[Trotterdam]

Could you tell me what the number of the issue about a lack of diversity in film award panelists is?

#29 and #262 are about ethnic diversity in movies themselves, rather than award panelists. Various other issues address inclusiveness of things ranging from women to fat people.

[Australian rePublic]

How is there a lack of women? Aren't there entire male/female catagories?

[Frieden-und Freudenland]

[title] Particularly Plain Panels
[description] As award season nears in @@NAME@@, many equality advocates have begun to criticize the fact that the judge panels which distribute the awards barely contain any women, ethnic minorities, or LGBTQ individuals, and have begun to demand that the government take action.

[option] "The lack of diversity on these panels make these awards shows even more navel-gazing than they would be otherwise," chides equality advocate @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Experimental films about the struggles of minorities are regularly overlooked to promote more tripe about how filmmakers are so cool. I propose you implement some sort of diversity quotas on these panels, like you would any other profession!"
[effect] The latest blockbuster in @@NAME@@ stars a disabled, Bigtopian, homosexual female.

[option] "Pshaw, our organization's fine just the way it is," interjects film critic and host of the upcoming @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Film Awards, @@RANDOMNAME@@."If our panelists skew toward a particular demographic, then maybe that demographic's just better at filmmaking 'n' such. There is absolutely no reason to change anyhting."
[effect] "The Birth of @@NAME@@" was recently awarded "Best Picture" at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Film Awards.

Can (or should) the government take action about something like this in the first place?

I remember that there was a controversy a couple of years ago about there being no Black Oscar nominees... While this might have been the result of a hidden bias, the American government couldn't be reasonably expected to intervene in the matter, I think.