Husband of 9/11 hero cop returns ‘Woman of the Year’ award after Bruce Jenner named
After Glamour magazine awarded Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner as “Woman of the Year” last week, the husband of a law enforcement officer who was killed during the 9/11 attack returned his wife’s own posthumous award from the magazine.
As a result of Glamour’s decision, “Woman of the Year” doesn’t have the distinction it used to, and so James Smith pulled the award given in memory of his late wife Mona off his Long Island bookshelf and sent it back to the magazine, according to Biz Pac Review.
One month after the tragedy, the magazine awarded her with the distinction when she was killed rushing into the south tower to help usher people to safety.
Until last week, he was proud of the award — no more.
“I was shocked and saddened to learn that Glamour has just named Bruce Jenner ‘Woman of the Year,’ ” Smith wrote in his letter to the magazine’s editor, Cindi Leive. He also referred to the former Olympian “Bruce Ball-less Jenner” and suggested other women who would be more deserving.
“Was there no woman in America, or the rest of the world, more deserving than this man?” Smith wrote. “At a time when we have women in the armed forces fighting and dying for our country, heroic doctors fighting deadly diseases, women police 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?”
I’m proud of this man for his action’s in returning the Award that his late wife so honorably earned. I totally agree that “Bruce Jenner” had no right to “The Woman of the Year” award. Bruce Jenner was born a man and I don’t care how many surgeries he has, or what he wears, he’s still a man and NOT A WOMAN!
There are women that put their lives on the line everyday for our Citizen’s, or do a couragous deed, deserving of the Award. It doesn’t matter if they’re Police Officer’s, Doctor’s, Mother’s, EMT’s, engineer, etc. The field is wide and this Editor must be a total idiot for her action’s in giving the award to a man, regardless of what he wants to represent himself as.
You can bet I’ll never buy another one of their magazines, and hope everyone else feels the same way.
Well said Hilda E. Davis!
I’m in total agreement with this husband. Just what the hell is so special and heroic to become a different gender when women are dying on the fields to protect our freedom? I have not bought a Glamour Magazine of any of it’s other publications since.