Jewelz & Foolz 2010: The Day after International Women’s Day.

Hope you were kind to women yesterday? This being the day after International Women’s Day and the second annual naming of Jewelz & Foolz.

So, what are you ask?

Both are groups of men. The former, Jewelz , are men who I would like to share a beer or a cocktail with today, pick their brains, get to know their hearts and maybe flirt with them, just for one day, on the day after International Women’s Day.

Then there are Foolz, not the harmless kind, but instead men who’s judgment at the present time makes them not good for womankind.

And yes, for the majority of people, sociopaths excluded, Foolz can become Jewelz and vice versa.

In this second annual offering of my Jewelz and Foolz column (the first was March 2009) I offer 6 Jewelz and 11 Foolz for your consideration (presented in alphabetical order).

Ronni Abergel

– For co-founding The Living Library and working to spread it around the globe. The anti-violence activist created a program that allows people to sign out individuals, known as "books", with a specific knowledge base, for a conversation, as a way to bring people face to face with others they wouldn't normally encounter in daily life to encourage dialogue that might dispel misconceptions and overcome prejudices. Please Mr. Abergel, keep working on this great idea until it is taking place in every library in the world.

Jawed Ahmad

– For demonstrating the courage necessary to be a journalist in Afghanistan, considered the seventh most dangerous country in which to be a journalist, according to CPJ's Impunity Index. He paid for it with his life last March when Ahmad, 23, was shot while driving his car on a main street in Kandahar, not far from the governor's palace.

Lee Daniels

– For his accomplishment that is Precious. For hauntingly telling the truth of a story that is universal and disturbing, the story of all the Precious boys and girls, the story of abuse, poverty, invisibility, hopelessness, survival and hope.

Sidney Hicks

– For loving a woman who doesn’t shave her legs. American comedienne and actress Mo'Nique has admitted to not shaving her legs and while I am sure it is normal practice in many parts of the world, it is quite exceptional in North America. I don’t know what to say except that you gotta love a man who loves a North American woman who does not shave her legs!! I’m just sayin!?!

John Philip Neufield

– For acting and for doing the right thing, because bad things happen when good men do nothing.

For taking seriously a British teen’s online plot to firebomb his high school, Attleborough High School in Norfolk England, a school of 950 students about 170 kilometres north of London. John Neufield, a student at Concordia University, in Montreal Canada, did a web search and then immediately called local police using his VOIP service. Within thirty minutes, Norfolk police officers had stopped the teen, identified as T.B, when he was found carrying a knife, matches and a canister of fuel, at the doors of the school.

Guy Ritchie

– For being a good ex-husband and father when he publically expressed the following over his ex-wife’s failed attempt to adopt three year old Chifundo "Mercy" James from Malawi:

"Madonna is a fantastic and loving mother who cares deeply about her own children, and children who may need additional help and support. I fully supported Madonna in her decision to apply for this adoption, and I am saddened that her application has been rejected. She is motivated only by being a caring parent who seeks to share some of the advantages and opportunities that her life has given her. This time it did not work out, but there will be other opportunities and I wish her well in them. She is a great mum."

And then there were:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

- For stealing the election in Iran by an “improbable” wide margin.

Coby Brooks

- For being a dumbass. On episode 102 of Undercover Boss, the CEO of Hooters reprimands, instead of firing, a Hooter’s manager named Jimbo, who Mr. Brooks witnesses degrading his female employees and somehow a female manager named Marcee who was very good at her managerial job ends up with a less stressful one, when she should have been offered a promotion and asked to train all Hooter’s managers?

Chris Brown

- For appearing not to get it or to grasp the extent of what he did, when he beat up his girlfriend Rihanna, even after talking to his fans on video and also appearing on Larry King Live and 20/20.

Greg Gutfeld

- For being an ignorant fool during his hate rant against the Canadian military on Fox News' Red Eye show.

Dr. Michael Kamrava

-For not conducting proper patient screening and for implanting too many embryos into Nadya Suleman when she already had six other children who she supporting on public assistance.

Hamid Karzai

– For signing a law that would that would restrict the rights of Afghanistan's minority Shia women and make it illegal for them to deny their husbands sex, leave the house without permission, or have child custody, in advance of his country's elections in the hope of winning critical swing votes from conservative Shia men.

John Mayer

– For kissing and telling. More specifically for publically discussing his sexual experiences with ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson in a Playboy interview. While appropriate for Playboy, it was a betrayal of an unwritten intimate code and makes you a bad ex-boyfriend.

Dr. Conrad Murray

- For giving Michael Jackson a lethal cocktail of prescription pills and for failing his Hippocratic oath.

Dick Pound

- For effectively endorsing abuse of power and for not standing up to the discrimination of female athletes, when responding to the question, “So will the IOC approve women's ski jump for 2014?”, asked as result of women ski jumper’s ongoing fight to be included in the Winter Olympics (the only Winter Olympic discipline to remain men-only), by saying:

"We'll have to wait and see. If, in the meantime, you're making all kinds of allegations about the IOC and how it's discriminating on the basis of gender, the IOC may say, 'Oh yeah, I remember them. They're the ones that embarrassed us and caused us a lot of trouble in Vancouver. Maybe they should wait another four years or eight years.' "

If you thought the lack of support for these female athletes was bad in 2005 when Gian Franco Kasper, president of the International Ski Federation president and a member of the IOC, said “Ski jumping is just too dangerous for women. Don't forget, [the landing] it's like jumping down from, let's say, about two meters to the ground about a thousand times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view”, apparently they still have a fight ahead of them.

Kanye West

– For acting like an emotional two year old.

For storming the stage at the VMAs, grabbing the microphone from Taylor Swift and interrupting her acceptance speech for Best Female Video for “You Belong With Me,” thereby depriving her of her moment, in order to proclaim that Beyonce and her “Single Ladies” (Put a Ring On It) should have won the award.

Tiger Woods

- For being a whoresband and thereby endangering the life of his wife Elin Nordegren and the mother of his two children Sam & Charlie.

Who are presently your ?

Sage Spencer

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