WIDOWER RETURNS WIFE'S AWARD TO GLAMOUR MAGAZINE

James Smith, whose late wife, NYPD police offer Moira Smith, died after helping people evacuate from the World Trade Center during 9/11, returned his wife’s 2001 Glamour Woman of the Year award after Caitlyn Jenner was recently given the same honor. Smith, a former police officer himself, posted an open letter to Glamour on Facebook, writing that he found the magazine’s choice to honor Jenner “insulting” to his late wife’s memory, “and the memory of other heroic women who have earned this award. Was there no woman in America, or the rest of the world, more deserving than this man? At a time when we have women in the armed forces fighting and dying for our country, heroic doctors fighting deadly diseases, women police officers 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?” Glamour magazine stands by their decision to honor the 66-year-old Olympian saying, “Glamour was proud to honor Police Officer Moira Smith in 2001 and we stand by our decision to honor Caitlyn Jenner among our class of winners in 2015. Caitlyn Jenner has helped shine a light on the problems faced by transgender youth and given voice to a community that is often unheard. Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards recognizes brave, bold women who in their individual ways have all made a significant difference in the world.”
* “Plus,” they added, “You know. Kardasian.”
* “We stand by our decision to milk the publicity from the Jenner story …”
* Glamour magazine also said that while, yes, Moira Smith died helping victims of 9/11, for years and years “Bruce” Jenner was dying a little on the inside.
* Plus, ramming that woman’s car and killing her and getting away with it was also quite an accomplishment.
* “Surely you, James, as a man, can understand the courage it takes to have your dick cut off.”
* What a sad world we live in the when the dignity of an award from Glamour magazine can be sullied by a publicity-seeking opportunist.
* I hate to out politically-correct you here but isn’t calling Jenner the Woman of the Year, actually a blatant form of discrimination against transgenders?
* See, I’m starting to get the hang of this political correct thing.
* I thought the point was to acknowledge that transgenders exist so why wasn’t Jenner named the Transgender of the Year? Are you trying to ignore a class of people?
* I call upon Glamour magazine to apologize for this outrageous slap in the face – this complete denial of the rights of transgenders to be recognized for who they are.
* Next year: Glamour magazine honors the first woman brave and bold enough to marry a horse.