An outdated way of looking at things
Headline:
Bono Becomes The First Man To Make Glamour’s Women Of The Year List
Because…there just aren’t enough women good enough to win it?
Glamour’s annual Women of the Year list always takes in a lot of territory, from noteworthy fashionistas and sports heroes to social justice activists and business leaders.
Enter Bono: The first Man of the Year among the magazine’s Women of the Year, all to be honored at a Nov. 14 ceremony in Los Angeles.
“We’ve talked for years about whether to honor a man at Women of the Year and we’ve always kind of put the kabash on it. You know, men get a lot of awards and aren’t exactly hurting in the celebration and honors department,” said Cindi Leive, Glamour’s editor-in-chief.
Kibosh, ffs.
“But it started to seem that that might be an outdated way of looking at things, and there are so many men who really are doing wonderful things for women these days. Some men get it and Bono is one of those guys,” Leive said in a recent interview.
It’s an outdated way of looking at things to think that women should win awards that say “women” in the title? It’s an outdated way of looking at things to think that men win plenty of awards, with and without “men” in the title? It’s an outdated way of looking at things to think that it’s way too soon to treat women as a privileged class that needs to give way to…an even more privileged class?
They could’ve gone so many ways that didn’t engage full face-palm mode–some better than others, of course, but this has to be one of the worst. Let’s see…
Include a “Male Feminist of the Year” award in the listing, towards the end, to highlight efforts that are genuinely deserving.
If you must be painfully stupid, at least cutesy it up: “Honorary Woman of the Year Award” for men who ‘get it’.
Of course, this is Glamour magazine we’re talking about, here.
I saw this today and I was just gobsmacked. Yeah, OK, Glamour magazine is hardly the epitome of feminist thought but really, they couldn’t have just done honorable mentions for any men who’ve been good allies? And I like Freemage’s idea too.
But I also have to take issue with Bono specifically. What has he done that’s so worthy of mention that they shoved a woman off the list to make room for him? Sure he does a lot of charitable work (and boy does he like to talk about it) but a lot of it is controversial. And then there’s the whole structuring his affairs to pay as little tax as possible, which bespeaks a certain hypocrisy.
Is he also the one who started behaving rather macho-pricky as soon as he transitioned? Maybe I have him mixed up with someone else. But if not, that makes this weird award downright absurdist.
Quixote I think you’re mixing up Bono, lead singer of U2 and Chaz Bono, child of Sonny and Cher. It’s the U2 Bono we’re talking about here. :-)
… “did you mean: kabanosz?” / groogle
Right you are, Claire. Thanks for figuring out what I was thinking!