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Song Bakvendtland describes a dystopia where all the conventions and rules are turned upside down and all the norms are reversed. It is an unthinkable society where they sjukeste things happen. For example, plomberer they ignite with sweets and they start at 7. class and will go down in grades pø about pø, and goes to the end out in the first, stupid as a loaf of bread.
And Bakvendland be summed up with “they are just silly and weird, all man”. For a absurd thought! That all is just as silly and weird! Women and men – just fun! Hoho, for a fun song, it is the unthinkable!
So, I think many people have it inside themselves: It is inconceivable that men and women/other minorities are just as funny as us white, amusing men. Humor = men. So it has been leeeeeeeeeeeeenge.
Herreprisen 2018 Debate
We have grown up with KLM, Bård and Harald, David Letterman, Seinfeld, men, men, men. Of course is men the fun! It is they who have the hand on the humor-the helm and lead us quiet from the laughter to the laughter with a steady hand – the other (women, immigrants, etc.) are lovely extras in the man’s project.
I’m a white, privileged man of 38 years and around 90 kilos, who works as a scriptwriter for TV. Currently, I write for Senkveld on TV2, but as a freelancer hopper I constantly from one project to the other. It is often short contracts and there is often great uncertainty around where to work next time.
I have been lucky. my Career began not as a copywriter at all, I worked as a finance manager and later managing director in the tv and film industry, before I for three and four years ago decided that I wanted to be a writer. Then beat I’m on with the company I previously was the head of and said “hey, can I be a writer please please please” and they said, cool as they were, “sure, you can get to try you”. So, it was to work like hell and build stone on stone, with one project after the other until I in the day is pretty self-driven with lots of humor and in its own right on your CV.
In Humorprisdebatten where women and people from minority groups complain that they are not sufficiently included, so the mark I that my first thought is “What are you guys complaining about, it’s only to work on, grind and grind, and then comes the results?”. It applies to both the front and the back of the camera. One must work hard. I have done it! It applies to all. For as has been written in the debate, so is the audience mercilessly; laughs, then laughs. Why shouldn’t it apply to women and people from minority backgrounds also? is my first thought.
But stop a hal, Magnus! You are a part of the group of white, privileged men where most of the doors have been left ajar in the first place. You were not met by the closed door or skeptical my, you got to try you, again and again and again.
the Feeling of being outside the and do not drop to and be included in the proper limits those who actually stand outside – and it makes the I don’t. And that, I think, many that I do not realize completely. We say “yes, but relax a, we have the open doors for all,” but I don’t think it is like that.
There is a big difference between saying “There is no one that you refuse to come to the party” and to say “Hey! Came at the party!! It is not the same without you!”.
It is too easy to hide behind that “women and people with minority background are encouraged to apply” and other superficial floskel-embossed measures.
Here, all in the industry, both in front of and behind the camera/back the curtain/stand-up microphone pour themselves a cup of coffee and not think: “yes, yes, relax a Sigrid Farmer & Hylekoret AS, take a bowl, it goes to”.
But rather, think: “What can we do on our project and the next project to get more women and people from minority backgrounds? Get a broader mix of people”.
I think it will give better content also. I think it will be better, more fun, more variety, more surprising and lættis. I think it will give better and more perspectives, more comical terms that surprises, shocks, makes us wiser and entertain more. I think simply it is better if we do it.
For if I and you white , creative mellomleder with the beard and the editor and producer on the back row there, take this up in redaksjonsmøtene, say it out loud in pitchene, when we write characters to the sitcomer, when guests can be booked at humor – and studioprogrammer, when it hired copywriters or recommend people for projects, so it is the better. Isn’t that a nobrainer, a? Came again, a.
And so, if perhaps a thousand years, as is the chorus on Bakvendtland written about to:
Yes bakvendtland, where everything can go the way they ække just as silly and weird all man.
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