What in the name of all the Earth and its domains and the heavens above is this asshattery?
The family of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is very much up in arms at something called the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation over its decision to give a leadership award named after the former Supreme Court justice to **drumroll* … *Elon Musk.
. . . Oh yeah, Rupert Murdoch is also getting this year’s Leadership Award, along with Martha Stewart (weird but whatever), Michael Milken (what?), and Sylvester Stallone (no, seriously, fucking what?).
. . . The award is all of four years old, and has previously gone to “individual women of prominence.” Did we run out of those or something?
Hang on, is it actually called the “Women of Distinction” award? The article body calls it the “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award”, which doesn’t sound gender-specific. If there’s nothing about the award that requires it specifically to be given to women, other than just being named after a woman and being given to one the first few times, what’s the problem?
The article is laden with snarky comments and obviously biased opinions, and the article it links to as its source is paywalled, so it’s not really clear what’s going on here.
From the press release:
Ah, that must be why 80% of the recipients this year were men. What a joke. And musk & murdoch being awarded is an absolute insult.
It did alert me to this award existing.
“Speed run to awareness, any %.”
And now they’re worthless. Better less awareness but with integrity than a shitshow and a laughing stock.