The widower a New York City police officer killed on 9/11 has returned his wife’s posthumous “Woman of the Year” award after Glamour magazine gave the same honor to Caitlyn Jenner last week.
NYPD Officer Moira Smith was posthumously given the award in 2001 after she was killed helping people evacuate out of the south tower. Her husband, James Smith, told the New York Post that he has yanked the award off the shelf in his Long Island home and FedExed it back to Glamour, after learning that the transgender woman formerly known as Bruce was honored last week.
“I was shocked and saddened to learn that Glamour has just named Bruce Jenner ‘Woman of the Year,’ ” Mr. Smith wrote in a letter to Glamour.
“Was there no woman in America, or the rest of the world, more deserving than this man?” he wrote. “At a time when we have women in the armed forces fighting and dying for our country, heroic doctors fighting deadly diseases, women police and firefighters putting their lives on the line for total strangers, brave women overcoming life threatening diseases … the list of possibilities goes on … is this the best you could do?”
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Glamour only wanted to boost its sales and the income of its advertisers and took the low road to make that happen.
ReplyDeleteThe magazine has succeeded in making its annual tribute a badly twisted joke. Wrong choice, girls, one that people will remember. You may as well have put Jessica Rabbit on the cover to more easily prove what you have with Jenner as your recipient - that your "award" is now meaningless.
ReplyDeleteshouldn't there be a rule that you have to be a woman for about a year before you get the "Woman of the Year" award?
ReplyDelete10:32 the first requirement should be that you be a woman not some sick transvestite.
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