Posted on 10/14/2016 7:39:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai
With Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in literature, this year’s Nobel laureates became an all-male ensemble, something that’s not unusual in the 115-year-old history of the prestigious awards.
But this is 2016. Critics are questioning why the Nobel judges couldn’t find a single woman across the planet worthy of being honored in any of the six prize categories.
“No woman wins Nobel prize this year. Oh the times they ain’t a-changin’,” Leah Kaminsky, an Australian author and doctor, wrote on Twitter.
Swedish writer and literature professor Ebba Witt-Brattstrom accused the Nobel judges of a lack of imagination after they picked 11 male laureates this year. “It’s deplorable, considering the advances made by women not just in literature but also in science,” she told the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. …
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Oh good grief. I am so tired of this diversity crap.
Oh good grief. I am so tired of this diversity crap.
I await with bated breath the news that the Nobel Committee goes full “affirmative action quota” wrt Vaginas and racial makeup.
I really thought the crooked and corrupt Clintoon would have received one. She’s the type that normally wins. America haters are always big Nobel winners.
Women are equal to men in every way and we demand that you adjust your standards to prove it!
Well, it's 'settled-science" then, idnit then?
Where did they do the Nobel voting, at a Trump rally?/s
This draws criticism, but the fact that they gave one to Hussein 0bama and algore doesn't?
Well, to be fair, giving the Peace Prize in 2009 to Imelda Marcos might have saved us a lot of headaches . . .
They could give Melania the Literature award for Donald’s version of the V****a (nope, P***y) Monologues . . .
Give one to Hillary for Chemistry . . . conjuring up a non-prosecution from Oxygen.
Getting tired of this sort of ‘diversity’ bleat.
Oh, bugger ...
You want it, ladies? EARN IT!!!
I am deplorable.
Clock Boy was the victim of the racist Nobel Committee
Clock Boy was the victim of the racist Nobel Committee
Clock Boy was the victim of the racist Nobel Committee
“Women in the USSR are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life. The possibility of exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting them an equal right with men to work, payment for work, rest and leisure, social insurance and education, and by state protection of the interests of mother and child, pre-maternity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens.” — Article 122, 1936 constitutionWell, when Soviet Russia declares such a thing, they have to believe it to be true, right?
“Women and men have equal rights in the USSR. Exercise of these rights is ensured by according women equal access with men to education and vocational and professional training, equal opportunities in employment, remuneration, and promotion, and in social and political, and cultural activity, and by special labor and health protection measures for women, by providing conditions enabling mothers to work; by legal protection, and material and moral support for mothers and children, including paid leaves and other benefits for expectant mothers and mothers, and gradual reduction of working time for mothers with small children.” — Article 35, 1977 constitution
Is the Nobel supposed to recognize the best and the brightest in each field? If that ends up with all male recipients, then the problem must be remedied at levels below the Nobel committee.
Male writers were more direct in this criticism:
Others, though, lamented a lost moment for books. "An ill-conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies," wrote "Trainspotting" novelist Irvine Welsh. "I totally get the Nobel committee," tweeted author Gary Shteyngart. "Reading books is hard." The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said some "real writers" probably aren't pleased.
just give a prize for men and one for women in each category, like the oscars
Give a Nobel to a woman that can fix a really good sammich.
Since obozo got one it is no more than winning Worst Cook In America.
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