escYOUnited
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EUROVISION 2020 - General Discussion Thread
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Mimmon
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MalagaToledo
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I thought number of lgbt contestants from last year couldn't be broken. Hmm, I might be wrong. 
You must be a talent in multitasking/-listening.everything
Mimmon
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Its my 3rd year in row so....You must be a talent in multitasking/-listening.
Vidbir accepted the challenge
Thanks to a change of plan, I could catch
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MalagaToledo
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People are complaining that esc is a sausage fest. Guys, we just had 2 females (Latvia and Malta) yesterday. Serbia will also send a female. At the end it will probably be abt 50 % 50 % ratio of male and female contestants.
BorisBubbles
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Women. We are talking about women, not animals.
MalagaToledo
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Animals?? Wtf??
Guys, imagine Sweden wins and Italy gets 2nd place. Would that mean the end of Eurovision. Have u ever though about that.
Guys, imagine Sweden wins and Italy gets 2nd place. Would that mean the end of Eurovision. Have u ever though about that.
HayashiM
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What are you referring to?
BorisBubbles
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I'm lowkey allergic to people who unironically refer to men and women as "males and females" as if they're taking about elk or smth.What are you referring to?
It's a just a wee tad disrespectful, don't you think.
HayashiM
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I am not arguing, I just still don't get the context - who used the "males and females" and where?
BorisBubbles
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Oh you have put malagatoledo on your blocklist. Smart man.
HayashiM
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Now it makes sense, thanks for the explanationOh you have put malagatoledo on your blocklist. Smart man.
NikolaiMoller
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We are in 2020. Why so much gender talk? We are all people 
Mainshow
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Aglcfually, I don't get the obesseion of having a balanced Eurovision in terms of gender (or that stupid Melodifestivalen rule that 50% of the songwriters have to be women). I don't care about your gender, sex or who you love. I simply want interesting entries.
Last year, the entire Top 5 consisted of male singers and I think it was really fair and didn't bother me at all.
Also, I can't share the fear of Eurovision 2020 "becoming a sausagefest". Malta, Israel, Latvia, Greece are all women and the vocalist of Belgium is also female.
Poland will probably also send a woman representing the country (2 female finalists already).
Last year, the entire Top 5 consisted of male singers and I think it was really fair and didn't bother me at all.
Also, I can't share the fear of Eurovision 2020 "becoming a sausagefest". Malta, Israel, Latvia, Greece are all women and the vocalist of Belgium is also female.
Poland will probably also send a woman representing the country (2 female finalists already).
HayashiM
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The fears of a sausagefest come from the period of about 2 weeks ago when we didn't know about any of those, we only knew of Bulgaria and Albania. On the other hand, we knew at that time that there will be men singing for Cyprus, Georgia, Austria, France, Spain, North Macedonia and the Netherlands, so at that time, it did feel concerning to me.
Currently, we are at 9 men and 7 women solos + one band, which is of course much more promising.
As for the "obessesion of having a balanced Eurovision in terms of gender", I am not obssessed about it being 50:50 and I am also more or less ok with last year's top 5, however I would still be quite sad if it came to, say, 80:20 in favor of any gender.
Plus personally I am very unhealthily biased towards Swedish women, so I want to finally see one at ESC once again. Of course, they haven't sent a woman for the past 6 years, so I don't think my bias is really the one to blame.
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Uto
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I am very much biased against Swedish men, they tend to come across as complete and utter donkeys (their Eurovision entries that is).