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Recapping the 2015 Shamie Awards
On Friday, October 16, Shameless hosted our second annual Shamie Awards, sponsored by Unifor.
We have many people and organizations to thank, including Jess Beaulieu and Sheila Sampath for hosting, OCAD University for providing the venue, Black Oak Brewery for sponsoring beer, DJ Betti Forde for the music, Afghan Women’s Catering Group for catering, Charlotte Bondy for bartending, and Maggie and Scout for ASL interpretation. Thank you!!!
We’re happy (or angry?) to present the 2015 Shamie Award winners/losers.
Most egregious use of people of colour as props in a music video
Nominees:
Major Lazer and DJ Snake: Lean On
Macklemore: Downtown
Taylor Swift: Shake It Off
Winner: Major Lazer and DJ Snake
Fashion Don’ts
Nominees:
D-Squared
Elle Magazine saying dashikis are “in”
Vogue declares “year of the butt”
Meryl Streep’s “REBEL” shirt
Winner: D-Squared
Sorry Not Sorry Award for Most Insincere Public Apology
Nominees:
Taylor Swift to Nicki Minaj
Ben Affleck for learning his family history includes slave-owning, and covering it up
Dawn Fraser for saying tennis player Nick Kyrgios should go back where he came from
Jeremy Renner for saying Black Widow is a slut
Winner: Jeremy Renner
The “I Have a ______ Friend” Award
Nominees:
Iggy Azalea has Black friends
Rachel Dolezal has Black friends (and a whole Black community)
Donald Trump has Muslim friends
Winner: Donald Trump
The Colourblind Award for People Who Want to Be Other People
Nominees:
Rachel Dolezal really wants to be Black
Mindy Kaling’s brother also really wants to be Black
Michael Hudson really wants to be Yi-Fen Chou
Bobby Jindal really wants to be a white guy
Winner: Rachel Dolezal
Most Ill-Conceived #Hashtag Award
Nominees:
AllLivesMatter
BlueLivesMatter
BlameOneNotAll
NotAllMen
Winner: #AllLivesMatter
Most Misguided Corporate Initiative Award
Nominees:
Starbucks #RaceTogether
McDonald’s Pay With Love campaign
The NFL’s annual Pink campaign
Martin Shkreli for buying the patent to an HIV drug and raising the price
Winner: Starbucks #RaceTogether
The “I Want to Believe” Award for People Who Are Sure That the Truth is Out There
Nominees:
Planned Parenthood Truthers
Confederate flag supporters
Richard Dawkins
Winner: Richard Dawkins
It’s Not Me, It’s You Award
Nominees:
Bill Cosby
Jian Ghomeshi
Terrence Howard
David Cameron
Winner: All of them!
The Man Tears Award
Nominees:
Man who demanded refund after getting turned down for 2nd date
White dudes tweeting #takeUsDown
Bernard Valcourt
Donald Trump
Winner: Bernard Valcourt
The Most Awful Sports Thing Award
Nominees:
Serena Williams’ haters
South African Rugby Team
NFL’s refusal to pay cheerleaders
FHRITP
Winner: Serena Williams’ haters
The Mickey Rooney Memorial Award for Inappropriate Casting
Nominees:
Emma Stone in Aloha_
Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily
Salma Hayek & Adrien Brody in _Septembers of Shiraz_
The entire cast of _Exodus: Gods and Kings
Winner: Rooney Mara
Most Disappointing Pseudo-Liberal
Nominees:
Matt Damon
Blake Lively
Meryl Streep
Winner: Matt Damon
The This is Not a Thing Award
Nominees:
Transracial
“Old-Stock Canadians”
Anchor babies
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people
Winner: Transracial
Worst “It’s Just a Joke” Joke
Nominees:
Bill Burr
Ari Shaffir
Kurt Metzger
Louis CK
Amy Schumer
Winner: Bill Burr
The “You’re Not My Feminist Spokesperson” Award
Nominees:
Meghan Murphy
Selma Blair, Emily Blunt, Lena Dunham, Claire Danes, Eve Ensler, Anne Hathaway, Ashley Judd, Lisa Kudrow, Laura Linney, Meryl Streep, Charlize Theron, Kate Winslet for opposing Amnesty International motion declaring sex workers’ rights are human rights
Taylor Swift
Amy Schumer
Erica Jong
Winner: Meghan Murphy
The Worst Advice Award
Nominees:
Jason Kenney: Speak in “perfect, unaccented English”
Tim Hunt: Make science labs single-sex
Sean Hannity: Focus on Black on Black crime
Winner: Sean Hannity
The Barbaric Cultural Practices Award Crowdsourced by You!
Nominees, crowdsourced from Shamies attendees:
Chris Alexander
Bill C-24
Mullets
The man bun fad
Lululemon
Bluegrass music
People being stampeded to death in lineups to buy things
So many missing and murdered Indigenous women
Winner: Missing and murdered Indigenous women
The Unironic “You’re Really Great!” Award
Nominees
Nicki Minaj
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Mrs. Universe, Ashley Callingbull
Cecile Richards, CEO Planned Parenthood
Winner: Nicki Minaj
2015 Shamie
Nominees:
Viet Cong
Miley Cyrus
Steve Rannazzisi
Winner: Stephen Harper (but he wasn’t nominated!! Election fraud?!)
Lifetime of Shame Award
Nominees:
Donald Trump
Stephen Harper
Bill Cosby
Winner: Stephen Harper (bye-bye!)
