Female pianists are to be favoured over men, according to the rules of a leading piano competition under which judges are instructed to “consider” picking a woman “in the case of a tie”. The Telegraph has more.
The jury of the Leeds International Piano Competition has been instructed, in the case of a tie between a male and female contestant, to “consider advancing her first”.
The preferential treatment aims to help to “tackle male dominance”, according to the rulebook.
New rules – introduced this year – also stipulate that jurors must cancel their votes and start again if any round of the competition “significantly reduces the ratio of women to men”.
Members of the jury have been required to undergo training which is aimed at “eliminating both conscious and unconscious bias in order to promote a more equal environment for all competitors”.
The new set of rules governing the 2024 competition has produced a set of five finalists, two of which are women, including the London-based rising star Junyan Chen and Vietnamese pianist Khanh Nhi Luong.
The stipulation means Ms. Chen and Ms. Nhi Luong could have received preferential treatment in the qualifying rounds because of their gender, pushing them ahead in the competition ahead of male counterparts. There is no suggestion that this is the case. …
The voting process now ensures that in the event that a round of the competition produces an all-male selection, there will be a revote.
There will also be a re-vote if the proportion of women remaining in the competition is significantly reduced in a round of voting, and this will apply all the way through to the semi-finals.
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As CJ Strachan has pointed out in a couple of past articles: This is illegal under UK equality law which demands equal treatment for all people regardless of their sex and thus, implicity forbids discrimination against anyone just because he chose the wrong sex at birth, even if members of this sex happen to be statistically overrepresented in a somehow defined target group.
One query might be raised as a result of the pervasive DIE Regs is: Are those women, women? And, who decides such, and how? Are any members of the IOC on the Leeds IPCC?
Turn up with a beard and say “I’m a woman”
Job done.
I’m not sure I understand. If one was awarded victory according to these precepts then it wouldn’t feel like victory at all it would feel like condecension. Entirely irrational and immoral of course. And anyone appraising the results would make an adjustment accordingly. These people are diseased in such a way that it is difficult to look at.
You are absolutely right. Positive discrimination, where people with “preferred characteristics” are promoted above others does not benefit anybody.
The non-preferred group will resent them and treat them with suspicion: are they really that talented or do they just tick the right boxes?
Members of the preferred group will always feel that they don’t really deserve to be where they are and know that they received preferential treatment.
And Ms. Chen and Ms. Nhi Luong are going to be happy suspecting they won only because they were female and not because they were the best? I doubt it. Utterly stupid.
2024 Finalists in the Leeds International Piano Competition:
Kai-Min Chang, Junyan Chen, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, Khanh Nhi Luong, Julian Trevelyan.
It does seem that, despite the natural talents of Third World musicians in western competitions, they all seem to focus on learning to play the great compositions of great Ethnic European = white composers. As if part of The Great Replacement.
Where are the great musical compositions from the Third World?
Weird, as there are many many famous and magnificent female pianists – so it would seem there is no discrimination against them at all.
I give you Helene Grimaud for starters,
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=helene+grimaud
And Yuja Wang – fabulous.
Martha Argerich
Hypatia of Alexandria was head of maths, astronomy, neoplatonic philosophy etc at the most prestigious and important centre of learning in known history. They ripped the flesh from her bones with sharpened seashells. I daresay they would have done the same to a male custodian of the library. You can’t force women into certain fields or attempt to adjust the numbers. And women are usually welcomed and encouraged in areas where thety are underepresented because they are so rare and there are a lot of thirsty men about.
And what talented and competent female pianist would want to win the Leeds International Piano Competition because certain DIE nutters decided that cervix-possessors were to be favoured above non-cervix possessors?
Serious musicians tend to be quite serious people in the sense that it takes a great deal of self-discipline and self-sacrifice. This is why I find it so offensive and insulting – it is an attack on fidelity itself which is necessary for music.
Hypatia wasn’t murdered because she was a woman. Cyril the Evil Patriarch of Alexandria sent his own mob to horrifically torture and butcher her alive because she supported his rival Orestes, after a series of massacres between Jews and Christians.
Cyril was one of the gang of Alexandrian “Popes”, including the Evil Athanasius, who crushed the original Christianity of the first few centuries AD, whose followers did NOT believe in the Trinity, or in Augustinian/ later Calvinist condemnation of all humans as irredeemably evil, or in worshipping the human woman Mary as “Mother of God”, because Jesus was NOT God, and never said he was, and never told anyone to worship Mary, or himself, but only Almighty God the Father.
Jabby never said she was murdered for being as woman.
And Augustine/Calvin did not say that anyone was irredeemably evil. They preached that anyone can be redeemed, but by Jesus Christ alone. Even you.
Quite right, too, considering that even Butterfly Extinction is now being blamed on too many men and farmers running our National Parks !!!
Campaigners appear to imply that more women and conservation experts are needed to save the butterflies. (!!!???)
‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve (msn.com)
“Tony Juniper, the chair of Natural England, says new data showing a sharp fall in butterfly populations this summer was probably the consequence of habitat loss and the use of pesticides, making the insects less resilient to extreme weather fluctuations: THE SCORCHING HEAT and wetter weather DRIVEN BY GLOBAL HEATING.”
“Campaigners have called for an overhaul of how England’s national parks are managed after a Guardian investigation showed the boards that oversee England’s national parks were dominated by men and severely lacking in diversity, with farmers outnumbering conservation experts two to one. Juniper says reformed national parks could help reverse biodiversity loss.”
Dear Tony Juniper,
The butterflies are being decimated by GLOBAL COOLING.
They need warm weather in June in order to complete their life cycle and breed. This year was unusually cold and wet in June, decimating the butterfly population. There will no doubt be many more such summers to come in the approaching Ice Age.
And no amount of women micro-managers and conservation experts turfing out the men and farmers on the National Parks management teams will change that fact.
It isn’t just in western countries – in Africa and the middle east you will see women much more enthusiastic about higher education than men. The novelty value perhaps but there is a more serious issue which is the power structure presses so hard these days that masculinity has a hard time shaping itself. This is a serious issue which affects the entire human race and needs to be put right soon because the divine order cannot exist without the masculine in its rightful place.
No more laziness. No more lack of vitality or spunk. Either you respond or you get walked over. Ultimately your decision if you have the energy or not. Not many do I can see that by simple observation so put that into your calculation.
This is one way to diminish and degrade someone’s efforts in such a prestigious competition. From here on if you are a women that has won some will think that it was because you are a women and not because you are great. Brilliant. Fan bloody tastic.
How to poison the well.
Perhaps they should give everyone a certificate to say they took part, and leave it at that.
One would hope that male pianists would have the manhood to boycott such rigged competitions.