Spanish lefties pay off women drawing comic books

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Spanish Ministry of Culture introduced a subsidy for comic book makers. The scoring strategy grants 15 additional points (per 100 possible) per sex. Men only can so score a maximum of 85 points. The Ministry justifies the decision with data from the White Book of Comics in Spain indicating that only 20% of comic book makers are women. They want to rise that number by artificially driving the supply of grants.

Spanish lefties pay off women drawing comic books. Ministry Culture, led by far left-wing Ernest Urtasun, developed a scoring strategy which grants women up to 15 additional points per 100 possible for participation in projects from state grants. This strategy divided the sector into those who consider it essential to correct "historical inequalities" towards women and those who condemn discrimination against men.

Controversy broke out even before the authoritative publication of the call for proposals, erstwhile his task leaked and went to the editor of the portal "Escribindo cómics". The outrage reached the apogee erstwhile “The Objective” published an article entitled “Urtasun offends comic book makers, favoring women”.

Official punk scale, published in the authoritative diary (BOE), establishes maximum score of 100 points, Distributed to Four sections. 60 points may be awarded for artistic and method quality, for Editorial commitment 10 point. for innovation and cultural value – 15 points and for ‘being a woman’ to 15 points (including 8 points for a cartoonist, 5 for a screenwriter, 2 for another roles).

In addition, 30% of grants (12 out of 40) were reserved for projects with at least 40% female participation, which is additional a limit supplementing the scoring system.
This measurement is part of Culture Equality Plan 2024–2026, which establishes the inclusion of "positively valuable" projects from a sex position in all ministerial grants.

Such structure means that projects created exclusively by men they aim to accomplish a maximum of 85 points out of 100 possible, which many authors have condemned as a systemic "failure". Critics, specified as the comic book author Álber Vázquez, argue that women have equal opportunities and do not request specified privileges.

Vázquez, being author of six read comic books, became One of the most critical voices for this left-wing project: – I gotta accept that I'm a white man with privileges, although I can't think of a single reason why a Spanish female couldn't, if she wanted to, dedicate herself to the planet of comic books on the same terms as me. – he said, mocking the idea.

Ministry defends its project, citing the White Book on Comics in Spainfrom which it appears Only 20% of their creators are women. This “great sex inequality in the field of creativity” justifies, according to the department Urtasun, the usage of ‘remediation measures’.

OUR COMMENTS: As usual, the Left fights problems where they are not present and wants to lower the quality of the industry, by subsidising the mediocrity but matching the ideology. Interestingly, in no country has she yet had the thought of creating parities in the field of education and social welfare. In virtually all Western countries, women make up the majority of school and kindergarten teachers and babysitters. possibly we should subsidize the men who want to enter the industry.

By the way, last year Spain introduced subsidies and another privileges for women in the army. At that time, the case of a soldier who, in order to extort a reduced retirement age, changed the gender. Why don't comic book makers start doing it now?

We besides recommend: They renewed the old cross. The local authorities didn't like it.

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