Now we have the happy opportunity for one of our occasional features, the Hero Award, given as the occasion arises to someone who just does the right thing on a matter big or small.This time, our hero is Australian newscaster Karl Stefanovic, co-host of the Australian version of "Today," who engaged in what you might well call some performance art to protest sexism.
His co-host is a woman named Lisa Wilkinson, and she regularly received unsolicited fashion advice and appearance-based criticisms from viewers.
Stefanovic became frustrated and decided to conduct an experiment. Except for, he said, a couple of times required by circumstances, he wore the same blue suit on air every day for an entire year, just to see if anyone noticed or cared.
No one did.
"But women," he said, and I'm quoting him now,Women, they wear the wrong color and they get pulled up. They say the wrong thing and there's thousands of tweets written about them. I'm judged on how I do my job, basically. Women are quite often judged on what they're wearing or how their hair is.And for demonstrating that fact so clearly and so cleverly, Karl Stefanovic is a hero.
Sources cited in links:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/17/tv-anchor-same-suit-sexism_n_6170900.html
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