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Ruth Bader-Ginsberg's "Women of Distinction" award goes to Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Stallone

https://lemmy.world/post/13235727

Ruth Bader-Ginsberg's "Women of Distinction" award goes to Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Stallone - Lemmy.World

What in the name of all the Earth and its domains and the heavens above is this asshattery [https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/03/15/ruth-bader-ginsburg-award-backlash/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzEwNDc1MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzExODU3NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTA0NzUyMDAsImp0aSI6IjQ3OWViNTAxLThjODItNDMyYy05ZWNkLWQ0NzM4Mjk0M2Y1OCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9zdHlsZS9wb3dlci8yMDI0LzAzLzE1L3J1dGgtYmFkZXItZ2luc2J1cmctYXdhcmQtYmFja2xhc2gvIn0.4dLV26vXFDpLbz6MtFwtg7wc_IKzL2kXYJXnO4mjFE4]? 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?

Mar 17, 2024 at 8:24pmWeb
Show threadthefartographerMar 17, 2024
These fucking Parks and Rec prophecies
Show threadHWK_290Mar 17, 2024

Everything I do is the attitude of an award winner, because I’ve won an award.

Show threadNOT_RICKMar 17, 2024
Dorothy Everton-Smyth woman of the year?!?
Show threadTjaMar 18, 2024

Dorothy Everytime Smurf Girl Trophy for Excellence in Female Stuff

please

Show threadNo_EponymMar 18, 2024
Best
Show threadSon_of_dadMar 17, 2024

A press release from the foundation says Musk is being recognized for entrepreneurship,

Lol what? When I think of an entrepreneur, I think of a person who rose from nothing on their work and got to the top.

Elon was born into money and handed money to get even richer

Show threadCrackhappyMar 17, 2024
He also both is and has a dick.
Show threadMrFappyMar 18, 2024
I’m pretty sure that the jury is still out on that second one.
Show threadmoistclumpMar 18, 2024
is a dick, at least
Show threadsaintshenanigansMar 18, 2024
And not very good at it, if twitter and Tesla are any indication. Both products quality take a nosedive any time he involves himself
Show threadfluxionMar 17, 2024
This is truly the dumbest timeline
Show threadgaloisghostMar 17, 2024
An obvious and boring attempt at attention seeking.
Show threadTolstoshevMar 17, 2024
theonion.com/man-finally-put-in-charge-of-struggl…
Man Finally Put In Charge Of Struggling Feminist Movement

WASHINGTON—After decades spent battling gender discrimination and inequality in the workplace, the feminist movement underwent a high-level shake-up last month, when 53-year-old management consultant Peter "Buck" McGowan took over as new chief of the worldwide initiative for women's rights.

The Onion
Show threadDeceptichumMar 17, 2024

In Australia, one of our previous PMs appointed himself Minister for Women.

He also claimed his greatest achievement for women was repealing a carbon tax as it helped women better budget the family income.

Show threadInstigateMar 17, 2024

He also chomped into a whole raw onion on live tv.

Man, the Abbott days were pretty funny when following political commentary.

Show threadDeceptichumMar 18, 2024
Funny but dangerous. I’m glad the christo-fash shit didn’t take off and he just looked like an idiot.
Show threadGorbashMar 18, 2024
Minister for woman. He also pointed out women bore the cost of rising energy prices because they did the ironing.
Show threadDeceptichumMar 18, 2024

en.wikipedia.org/…/Minister_for_Women_(Australia)

Unless the woman thing is a reference I’m not getting?

Minister for Women (Australia) - Wikipedia

Show threadGorbashMar 18, 2024

When he assumed the position the sign for his assistant Minister, Michaela Cash, was misprinted :

www.sbs.com.au/news/article/…/xu2p6emth

Office plaque typo leaves Coalition red-faced

The parliamentary office plaque for Senator Michaelia Cash has been quickly replaced after it accidentally labelled her Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Woman.

SBS News
Show threadSpaceNoodleMar 17, 2024
/c/NotTheOnion
Show threadFaceDeerMar 17, 2024

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.

Show threadTempermentalAnomalyMar 17, 2024

From the press release:

Established in 2020, the RBG Award has previously recognized women of distinction, including HM Queen Elizabeth II and Barbra Streisand. The award was expanded this year to include trailblazing men and women. “Justice Ginsburg fought not only for women but for everyone,” said Julie Opperman, Chair of the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation. “Going forward, to embrace the fullness of Justice Ginsburg’s legacy, we honor both women and men who have changed the world by doing what they do best.”

2024 JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG LEADERSHIP AWARD HONORS ELON MUSK, SYLVESTER STALLONE, MARTHA STEWART, MICHAEL MILKEN, AND RUPERT MURDOCH

/PRNewswire/ -- The prestigious JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG LEADERSHIP AWARD (RBG Award) will be presented by the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation to five iconic...

Show threadEchMar 18, 2024

“Going forward, to embrace the fullness of Justice Ginsburg’s legacy, we honor both women and men who have changed the world by doing what they do best.”

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.

Show threadryathalMar 18, 2024
It did alert me to this award existing.
Show threadPaddzrMar 18, 2024

“Speed run to awareness, any %.”

And now they’re worthless. Better less awareness but with integrity than a shitshow and a laughing stock.

Show threadAeronMelonMar 17, 2024
“The monkeys make trophies and then give them to each other… like they mean something.” - Ernest Cline
Show threadkn0wmad1cMar 17, 2024

You probably are also wondering the same thing we were — well, one of several things — which is how in the hell Sylvester Stallone got on this list. Is the next Rambo movie going to nod to modernity by rebooting the franchise with a bloodthirsty female Green Beret? Does he have a heretofore-unknown-to-us reputation as being a feminist filmmaker?

But last year’s 12-member award committee included Stewart as well as Jennifer Flavin Stallone, Sylvester’s wife.

Ah. Well then.

So this award is a joke now.

Show threadniftyMar 18, 2024
If RGB was alive she would not give this award to Murdoch or Musk, but I don’t know about Stallone
Show threadjollyrogueMar 18, 2024
He did some porn work in the ‘80s. So brave? 🤷🏽‍♂️
Show threadnickwitha_k (he/him)Mar 18, 2024
Stallone crossed the picket line during the SAG-AFTRA strike. So, I’d say that it’s pretty clear why these three were selected.
Show threadqueermunist she/herMar 18, 2024

rip in piss rbg, idgaf about your shitty award

this is what your legacy deserves

Show threadMnemnosyneMar 18, 2024
Yeah, agree…this woman’s colossal fucking hubris is in perfectly appropriate company with the likes of Elon Musk. If she hadn’t been so colossally egotistical, and retired sometimes around 2013 or so, the supreme court would be a lot less fucked today.
Show threadCosmonauticusMar 18, 2024
I think a lot of ppl have issues with being critical of her because she was the second woman on the Supreme Court. Either way she was not a Saint and should be judged based on the merits or her career. Her legacy will ultimately be a shining example of why there should be term limits for justices.
Show threadBeigeAgendaMar 18, 2024
Did they stumble upon the Space Karen picture and thought what an upstanding woman!
Show threadprofdc9Mar 18, 2024
Why don’t they give the award to Amy Coney Barrett?