Tuesday, August 24, 2021
“With her flat breasts …”
Tanzania’s president insults female soccer players
Suluhu Hassan is one of only two women at the head of an African state. But everything else is modern about her image of women. The president of Tanzania is now receiving a powerful shit storm for derogatory and discriminatory statements about female soccer players.
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has come under the crossfire of criticism in the African country for making discriminatory statements about female soccer players. In particular, representatives of the political opposition and reform movements were outraged by the 61-year-olds’ disparaging remarks on the outward appearance and the alleged lack of marriage incentives for women playing football.
“With their flat breasts you could think that they are men and not women, and when you look at their faces you can be amazed because if you want to get married you want a lady with the qualities, but those qualities are in women footballers disappeared “, explained Suluhu Hassan on the edge of a tournament victory of the Tanzanian men’s national team at a regional championship – of all things as part of a speech for more financial support for women’s sport.
“Today they make us proud as a nation, but …”
Suluhu Hassan, one of only two women at the head of an African state, even added: “Today they make us as a nation proud when they bring home trophies, but what life will they have in the future if their legs are too tired and their health no longer allows for games? For her, life in a marriage is a dream, because if she takes someone as a wife, his mother will ask whether they are a woman or not a man after all. “
Suluhu Hassan’s statements after her first six months as the successor to the late President John Magafuli sparked indignant reactions from the public in her home country. “President Suluhu Hassan’s comments are a humiliation and humiliation for all women,” said former Prime Minister Catherine Ruge as women spokeswoman for the opposition party Chadema. Marie Sarungi from the citizens’ group “Change in Tanzania” also saw a line crossed: “Everyone is cheering for the presidency of a woman, but this president denigrates women footballers.”
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