Gloria Steinem gives Miss Piggy a feminist award!

[marylander1940]

Miss Piggy, a recurring and beloved character in Jim Henson’s “Muppets” universe, has received a Sackler Center First Award from the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

 

Previous honorees include Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Toni Morrison, retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Muriel Siebert, the first female trader on the New York Stock Exchange.

 

“This week moi is being honored — and deservedly so,” Miss Piggy explained in a Time editorial “… Isn’t it wonderful? Isn’t it about time?”

 

“She is definitely her own self,” Steinem said. “She isn’t trying to be either totally masculine or totally feminine, she’s human.”

 

The puppet Miss Piggy, posed by production staff for a photo promoting the movie “The Muppets” in 2012. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

Kermit the Frog tweeted an image of Piggy in conversation with Steinem.

 

“Quick shot of @RealMissPiggy and @GloriaSteinem in conversation at the Sackler Center First Awards,” someone purporting to be Kermit wrote. “So proud!!”

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/05/miss-piggy-an-inanimate-puppet-frequently-voiced-by-men-receives-feminist-award-from-gloria-steinem/

 

https://twitter.com/KermitTheFrog/status/606595632300752896/photo/1

 

A right wing nuts reply....

 

[+ purplekow]

I guess Kim Kardashian was busy

[+ ArVaGuy]

Interesting choice considering that Miss Piggy is a glorified hand puppet created and voiced by a male, Frank Oz.

[McLeanspider]

I guess Kim Kardashian was busy

 

and pregnant again, this folks keep reproducing...

[rvwnsd]

and pregnant again, this folks keep reproducing...

How else will they keep up the Kardashians?

[curiousnomore]

She's a puppet, Ms. Steinem. Try awarding a worthy Person. Or at least, don't attach your name to something this absurd.