In all seriousness, this vigilantism to promote equality is utter fail.
It makes for a "light hearted news story" once a year and a room full of women can feel good about themselves in a mob-mentality kind of way - but what does it actually achieve?
You will always have guys who are dickheads (and women too, for that matter) and they won't give a damn about your award.
Neither will their supporters.
For the rest of the world, believe it or not, we're not all "hur-hur, women has boobs and raise kids" - we've reached the point where we can recognise what is acceptable and what is not.
Does giving an "award" like this actually promote equality? Or does it widen the perceived psychological gap between men and women?
While there is a strong awareness of various forms of femininity in the world, and a strong encouragement toward women to embrace that, whatever it entails, men have an ever more confused concept of masculinity and behaviour.
"Shaming" the Sam Newmans of this world achieves nothing - for one thing, Sam Newman
has no shame, for another everyone who thinks he's great is immune to your event, and everyone sane already thinks he's an idiot.
Gender balance (whatever the fuck that's supposed to
be) isn't perfect, but events like this do nothing to help.
I suspect Phil has much more eloquent rants on this topic - either fer or agin me - given his somewhat more respectable educational background in this area
Many, many commas were harmed in the making of this post. Check it out, there's like, three in this footnote alone. What kind of monster am I?
Who do you think you are? If you'd stopped winning, you could have been the Biggest Loser, if you gave up, you could have been a Survivor, if you'd stopped reading Orwell, you could have been on Big Brother!