Giving due honours where they are deserved, the 20th annual Ernie Awards will recognise the most sexist remarks made throughout the year at a gala dinner at NSW parliament house tomorrow night.
It’s been a cracker year for misogyny, especially with so many women having the nerve to keep destroying the joint, so the nominee shortlist is a competitive one.
Let’s take a look at the frontrunners:
- Kyle Sandilands (in remarking about journalist Alison Stephenson) “fat slag…a piece of shit…you haven’t got that much titty to be having that low cut a blouse”.
- Alan Jones “Women are destroying the joint, Christine Nixon in Melbourne, Clover Moore here. Honestly! ..There’s no chaff bag big enough for these people”.
- The Anglican Diocese of Sydney for proposing new marriage vows which require women to promise to “submit” to their husbands.
- Paul Keating mumbling as he left a planning meeting “Clover Moore couldn’t get a f*** on a troopship coming home” (reported AFR 19/7/12 so it must be true)
- Basketball Australia for planning to send the women’s team to London economy class while the men travelled Business.
- David Farley CEO of Australian Agricultural Company while demonstrating an abattoir machine “So it’s designed for non-productive old cows – Julia Gillard’s got to watch out.”
- Mark Latham “Australia’s teaching profession is dominated by ageing matrons, instinctively resistant to new ideas”.
- Barry O’Farrell for saying of Linda Burney “I am not sure which other Member could be the hooker, perhaps the Member for Canterbury.”
- Grahame Morris “Well Leigh (Sales) can be a real cow sometimes when she is doing her interviews.”
- Lego for designing new characters for ‘Lego Friends’ marketed to girls. They spend their time in Heartlake City cafe, splash pool and beauty parlour and come in different pastel shades.
- Feminist icon Germaine Greer is nominated for the Elaine (the remark least helpful to the sisterhood) for her extraordinary admonition “You’ve got a big arse Julia. Just get on with it”.
- Multiple Ernie winner Tony Abbott in response to Greer’s remarks “I know I know, I know. Germaine Greer was right on that subject”.
Prizes will be awarded across a number of different categories via a highly scientific method of judging: the level of booing that greets each remark, as determined by technically trained boo-monitors.
Give your own interactive boo below. Who deserves to take out the top prize?