This ought to be 100% parody but IT ISN’T. The award was intended for women…

The organizer behind an honor named for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a lifelong champion of women’s rights and liberal causes, is canceling the award ceremony scheduled for April after facing blistering criticism from her family and friends over several of this year’s planned recipients.

Justice Ginsburg helped establish the award in 2019, the year before she died. It was originally intended for “women who exemplify human qualities of empathy and humility,” but four of the five intended recipients this year are men. 

That right there is more than bad enough but it gets insultingly worse. Four of this year’s five “planned recipients” are men, and hahaha joke’s on you, bitches, they’re some of the worst men anyone could find.

Among them are Elon Musk, the tech entrepreneur who frequently lobs tirades at perceived critics; Rupert Murdoch, the tycoon whose empire helped give rise to conservative news media; and Michael R. Milken, the financier who was a face of corporate greed in the 1980s and served nearly two years in prison before becoming a philanthropist.

I mean seriously?? What is even the point? What is the point of giving an award to Musk and Murdoch and Milken? An award for what? Why do they need an award? Of all the people on the planet those three seemed the most deserving of an award? An award in the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg?? What is the thinking here?

“The last thing we intended was to offend the family and friends of R.B.G.,” Julie Opperman, the chairwoman of Dwight D. Opperman Foundation, which awards the prize every year, said in a statement on Monday. 

Oh fuck off. Never mind anybody’s family and friends; explain what can possibly be the point of giving an award (intended for women) to three of the richest and worst bad men on the planet?

Ms. Opperman explained that the reason for including men as recipients this year was to reflect and uphold Justice Ginsburg’s “teachings regarding equality.”

Yeah great joke but now seriously tell us why you did it.

The foundation “did not consider politics” but focused on selecting leaders who “have made significant contributions to society,” she said.

“Leaders”? What leaders? They’re not leaders, they’re men who made themselves a lot of money.

The intended recipients this year, who also include the businesswoman Martha Stewart and the actor Sylvester Stallone, were scheduled to be honored with the renamed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award at a gala next month at the Library of Congress. 

Why is it renamed? Why leadership? It’s a power-worship move – it’s a grovel to power-loving men who wield their power to break everything and insult everyone. It’s a flaming insult to RBG herself.

H/t Sackbut