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

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'Women Of Distinction' Award Named For Ruth Bader Ginsburg Going To Very Terrible Men

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?

These fucking Parks and Rec prophecies

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

Dorothy Everton-Smyth woman of the year?!?

Dorothy Everytime Smurf Girl Trophy for Excellence in Female Stuff

please

Best

https://www.theonion.com/man-finally-put-in-charge-of-struggling-feminist-moveme-1819569515

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.

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

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

Funny but dangerous. I'm glad the christo-fash shit didn't take off and he just looked like an idiot.

Minister for woman. He also pointed out women bore the cost of rising energy prices because they did the ironing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_for_Women_(Australia)

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

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

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/office-plaque-typo-leaves-coalition-red-faced/xu2p6emth

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

He also both is and has a dick.

I’m pretty sure that the jury is still out on that second one.

is a dick, at least

And not very good at it, if twitter and Tesla are any indication. Both products quality take a nosedive any time he involves himself

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.

"The monkeys make trophies and then give them to each other... like they mean something." - Ernest Cline

This is truly the dumbest timeline

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:

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."

“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.

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.

/c/NotTheOnion

Did they stumble upon the Space Karen picture and thought what an upstanding woman!

If RGB was alive she would not give this award to Murdoch or Musk, but I don’t know about Stallone

He did some porn work in the ‘80s. So brave? 🤷🏽‍♂️

Stallone crossed the picket line during the SAG-AFTRA strike. So, I'd say that it's pretty clear why these three were selected.

Why don't they give the award to Amy Coney Barrett?

An obvious and boring attempt at attention seeking.

rip in piss rbg, idgaf about your shitty award

this is what your legacy deserves

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.

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.