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| Attorney General Kamala Harris |
What’s wrong in calling a beautiful woman “beautiful”? Apparently, not
much provided you are not the head of a state. And this is why US
President Barack Obama cannot praise a woman’s beauty. His position
makes him different from everyone in his country at least. Last
Thursday, the suave and otherwise articulate Obama made a faux pas by
calling Attorney General Kamala Harris as “the best-looking attorney
general in the country”. If he had forgotten that he was the US
President, his country’s media wasted no time in reminding him that he
is the world’s most powerful man and, therefore, is forbidden from
calling any woman beautiful other than his wife.
Obama, a not so reticent man by any stretch, must perhaps still be
wondering exactly what part of his praise offended certain sections of
the American society to the extent that he was forced to apologise the
next day. Some were unforgiving in their reactions and went so far as to
seeking “gender-sensitivity training” for the president. Most Twitter
users branded Obama’s comment as “sexist”. Reports add that there were
more negative comments for Obama on Twitter than there were in his
support.
So, was Obama wrong? Find out here:
http://www.newsyaps.com/praising-beauty-becomes-obamas-dilemma/11876/
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