Atheist Woman of the Year Oscars
Well now look at that, Godless Utopia is doing a Woman Atheist of the Year poll with four categories (with four nominees in each category). It’s a Twitter-based poll, i.e. you vote by clicking a box on the relevant tweet.
One is for comedian; I of course voted for Kate Smurthwaite. There’s also actress and blogger (I voted for Maryam). The fourth is author; I voted for Taslima. But here’s the shocker: somehow I’m one of the nominees in that one. I won’t win of course but feel free to vote for me anyway! (But really you should vote for Taslima.)
(Voting has already started.)
Interesting that comedienne and authoress have fallen out of favour but actress survives.
It is odd– when I was taking theater classes in the 80s, the teachers and professors wouldn’t hear of the word actress. “You are an actOR!”
UPDATE:
Ayaan 43%; Hecht 33%; OB 13%; Taslima 11%.
Seven hours left to vote.
Scientist? Politician?
@ 2 Samantha Vimes
Putting my idle speculation hat on, perhaps it’s because female authors don’t necessarily write about women, and female comedians don’t necessarily joke about women, but female actors pretty much have no choice but to play women. Maybe that’s why?