The problem though is that, okay so why isn't there a rating for men? Or black people? Or Asians? Eventually it'll get ridiculous. Why do females get a special treatment?
I see where you're coming from but I have absolutely no issue with IMBD having search tags for each of those categories. Why on earth would that be a problem?
As for "special treatment" I think the point is to raise awareness of these works, not take anything away from other works.
From a more detailed article I found :
?The F-rating is a great way to highlight women on screen and behind the camera,? IMDb boss Col Needham told the BBC.
There were questions, however, about how IMDb will use the classification. The rating is not included on the landing pages or plot keyword pages of F-rated films, and the only way to discover if a film has the rating is by searching the IMDb reference page.
Female film protagonists reached all-time high in 2016, study shows
?I am so pleased that 21,800 films have been tagged on IMDb as F-rated. Of course, I would love the F-rating logo to be featured prominently on each of these films,? Tarquini said.
Despite the widespread implementation of her rating, Tarquini says work still must be done to increase female representation on film. ?I hope that the F rating will become redundant as the stories we see on screen reflect our culture, and that 50% of the stories we see [will be] told by and about women.?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...ssification-system-to-highlight-work-by-women
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For those that don't want to use this tag, don't. I haven't spent much time on IMBD personally and I don't know if I'll use this myself since I mostly get my movie recommendations from friends. I'll probably check it out at some point to see how it works, but that's about it.
As for why women are getting "special treatment", this initiative was created by a woman to try and address the drastic imbalance of female directers and writers in the movie industry. This is an incredibly difficult problem to overcome and requires a multifaceted approach to bring about lasting, appropriate change.
I'm not in the film industry, so I'm happy to defer to those within it as to how the best to tackle the issue they face.