Craig Hill
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Oracle of DelphiNot the Emmy Awards
August 29th 2006 14:40
Forget the slender, golden-winged statuette that we’ve all come to know as the “Emmy”. There’s a new award in town and he’s a real bastard.
Every year, hundreds of women from all different backgrounds gather in the NSW Lower House of Parliament to judge the year’s most sexist remarks. The “winners” are booed, jeered and best of all, profoundly insulted by being given an “Ernie” award.
And from the sound of things 2006 has been an amazing year for chauvinism. Read on, I think the statements all speak for themselves…
1. The Celebrity Ernie went to Tom Cruise for saying, "I've got Katie tucked away so no one will get to her until my child is born ... [Katie's] life from now on was going to be about being a mother. I'm not giving her the chance to turn into another Nicole."
2. The Political Ernie went to Federal Liberal MP Bill Heffernan for saying of fellow female MP, Julia Gillard, "Anyone who chooses to remain deliberately barren ...they've got no idea what life's about."
3. The Judicial Ernie went to lawyer Chrisovalantis Papadopoulos who was heard saying at a rape trial that “it was only brief and at the very bottom of the scale of seriousness.”
4. The Media Ernie went to journo Jeff Corbett who did a report on NASA ensuring that “male engineers were on board in case things went wrong.”
5. And the most prestigious award, the Gold Ernie, which symbolises the most derogatory, chauvinistic and outrageous of comments went to none other than P&O Cruises for the infamous advertisement that surfaced during the Dianne Brimble inquest – “Seamen Wanted”.
Really boys…
Every year, hundreds of women from all different backgrounds gather in the NSW Lower House of Parliament to judge the year’s most sexist remarks. The “winners” are booed, jeered and best of all, profoundly insulted by being given an “Ernie” award.
And from the sound of things 2006 has been an amazing year for chauvinism. Read on, I think the statements all speak for themselves…
1. The Celebrity Ernie went to Tom Cruise for saying, "I've got Katie tucked away so no one will get to her until my child is born ... [Katie's] life from now on was going to be about being a mother. I'm not giving her the chance to turn into another Nicole."
2. The Political Ernie went to Federal Liberal MP Bill Heffernan for saying of fellow female MP, Julia Gillard, "Anyone who chooses to remain deliberately barren ...they've got no idea what life's about."
3. The Judicial Ernie went to lawyer Chrisovalantis Papadopoulos who was heard saying at a rape trial that “it was only brief and at the very bottom of the scale of seriousness.”
4. The Media Ernie went to journo Jeff Corbett who did a report on NASA ensuring that “male engineers were on board in case things went wrong.”
5. And the most prestigious award, the Gold Ernie, which symbolises the most derogatory, chauvinistic and outrageous of comments went to none other than P&O Cruises for the infamous advertisement that surfaced during the Dianne Brimble inquest – “Seamen Wanted”.
Really boys…
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Even out of context, those comments speak for themself as morbid and strange that's far from eccentricity.