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Can I be the only one who was put off by some of Michael Bublé’s comments at the recent 2013 Canadian Juno awards?  I’ve hesitated writing this, but the idea just won’t let me go.  I’ve been a long-time fan of the internationally renowned Canadian crooner, but after his remarks, I’m having a difficult time maintaining my fan stance.

Bublé hosted this year’s event, and as I learned, also wrote and scripted the show. I found much of his humour sexist and derogatory to women.  But apparently, I’m on my own here, because I’ve seen little to no mention of this anywhere else in the media.  I guess it is so commonplace nowadays to insult women by judging whatever they do by how attractive they look and/or how sexually desirable they are, that we generally pay little attention to it, unless it is delivered by highly prominent individuals.

Even President Obama recently provoked a furor when he commented on a female politician’s good looks as well as her abilities and accomplishments.  At least he included the latter.  But that’s politics.  Show business may be judged by even less stringent criteria.

So far, press coverage on the show and on Bublé ‘s hosting seems to have been written by men.  Nick Patch of The Canadian Press, in an item appearing in the National Post, provided a verbatim account of what happened.  After star-of-the-night pop singer Carly Rae Jepson’s more risqué than usual performance, which involved ...