I'd thought I'd ask you guys to kick this one round, with Award Season coming up...

Question: Why is there a Best Actress category? Shouldn't women compete equally with men? After all, there's no Best Female Director, or Best Female Composer Award.

Book awards that are just for women are controversial, with many arguments for and against. But the standard feminist response is that women are equal and therefore women authors should compete equally with male authors. It's somewhat patronising that they have to have their own separate category, like the Paralympics.

So what do you guys reckon?

Should there just be a Best Actor category, open to all? Let Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench slug it out with Daniel Day Lewis and Philip Seymour Hoffman? After all, there are already too many award shows and award categories e.g. Best Kiss FFS.

Or keep things the way they are? It's the way it's always been, so leave it alone.

Or create even more categories? Best Child actor. Best geriatric. Best Hispanic Dwarf Amputee in a Transgender Role?