Here, have a prize

August 26, 2006

In Australia, the Ernie Awards for the most sexist statements. Tom Cruise was a winner:

Fresh from being dropped by his studio, Hollywood actor Tom Cruise won the celebrity Ernie, for saying the life of his partner Katie Holmes is now about being a mother. He said he was not giving her the chance to turn into another Nicole.
There were other categories:
The Media Ernie went to a Newcastle Herald journalist for the way he denigrated female space shuttle crewmembers.

Jeff Corbett wrote that, “NASA ensured there was a male engineer on board in case things went wrong.”

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