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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13235727 [https://lemmy.world/post/13235727] > 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?