Any man can make obnoxious statements, but men in power have been making such statements for a long time now. Well, this would not solve any of the problems. The mere thought of men in politics saying uninformed things is quite infuriating. The problem of our society is that we live in a world where things are built in the favour of men.
Here we have a few of the most sexist statements made by male politicians!
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1. When the Nigerian president made a derogatory remark about his wife
I don’t know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room.– Muhammadu Buhari
2. Haryana khap panchayat leader blamed Chow Mein for rapes happening
“To my understanding, consumption of fast food contributes to such incidents (rape). Chow Mein leads to hormonal imbalance evoking an urge to indulge in such acts.”
– Jitender Chhatar
3. Turkish President Recep Tayyip decided he knew what’s best for every woman out there
“A woman who rejects motherhood, who refrains from being around the house, however successful her working life is, is deficient, is incomplete.”
– Recep Tayyip
4. When Mulayam Singh Yadav said that men shouldn’t be held accountable for sexual crimes
“लड़कियां पहले दोस्ती करती हैं। लड़के-लड़की में मतभेद हो जाता है। मतभेद होने के बाद उसे रेप का नाम दे देती हैं। लड़कों से गलतियां हो जाती हैं। क्या रेप केस में फांसी दी जाएगी?”
– Mulayam Singh Yadav
5. When Daya Shankar Singh compared Mayawati to a prostitute
“Even a prostitute fulfils her commitment to a man after she is paid. But Mayawati, such a big leader in UP, sells party tickets to anyone who pays her the highest amount. If someone gives her Rs 1 crore for a ticket, she will give it to the other person who is offering Rs 2 crore.”
– Daya Shankar Singh
6. When Donald Trump said that women are manipulative for being feminine
“Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression ‘the weaker sex’ was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye — or perhaps another body part.”
– Donald Trump
7. When the Health Minister of Bihar equated virginity with purity
“Virgin, as per the dictionary, means an unmarried and pure girl. So all these words are not objectionable.”
– Mangal Pandey
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8. Former Union Coal Minister said that wives become bland and boring as time passes in a marriage
“Nai nai jeet aur nai shadi ka apna alag mahatva hota hai. Jaise jaise samay bitega jeet ki yaden purani hoti jaengi. Jaise jaise samay bitata hai patni purani hoti jati hai, wah maja nahi reh jata hai.”
– Sriprakash Jaiswal
9. RSS, Mohan Bhagwat tried telling us that Bharat is a safer country than India
“Crimes against women happening in urban India are shameful. It is a dangerous trend. But such crimes won’t happen in “Bharat” or the rural areas of the country. You go to villages and forests of the country and there will be no such incidents of gang-rape or sex crimes.”
– Mohan Bhagwat
10. When Donald Trump made a creepy remark about his own daughter
“She does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter perhaps I’d be dating her.”
– Donald Trump
11. On being asked about the women’s reservation bill Mulayam Singh said that only rich women are good looking
“Bade ghar ki ladkiyan aur mahilaaon ko fayda milega. Humari gaon ki gareeb mahilaaon ko nahin. Akarshak nahi hoti… bas itna kahoonga.”
– Mulayam Singh
12. When SP leader Abu Azmi said that women who are raped should also be punished
“If a woman is caught (in a rape case), then both she and the boy should be punished. In India, there is death penalty for rape, but when there’s consensual sex outside marriage, there’s no death penalty against women.”
– Abu Azmi
13. When former home minister of Karnataka, K J George said that there have to be more than 2 culprits for it to be called a gang rape
“How is it a gang-rape if two people rape? Shouldn’t there be at least three or four people for it to be called gang rape?”
– K J George
14. When former Andhra Pradesh Congress chief, Botsa Satyanarayana said women shouldn’t step out at night
“Just because India achieved freedom at midnight does not mean that women can venture out after dark. They should ensure that they do not board buses with few passengers.”
– Botsa Satyanarayana
15. When the former chief minister of Haryana said that it’s better to get girls married off young
“We should learn from the past, especially in the Mughal era, people used to marry their girls to save them from Mughal atrocities and currently a similar situation is arising in the state.”
– Om Prakash Chautala
16. When Donald Trump decided that the reason a lot of women were excelling on The Apprentice was because of how they looked
“It’s certainly not groundbreaking news that the early victories by the women on The Apprentice were, to a very large extent, dependent on their sex appeal.”
– Donald Trump
17. When Tirath Singh Rawat equated wearing ripped jeans to a lack of morals and values
“Showing bare knees by wearing ripped jeans just to look like rich kids is the value given now which is just a race towards westernisation when the Western world today is following us. Ripped jeans pave the way for societal breakdown and is a bad example parents set for children.”
– Tirath Singh Rawat
18. When MLA Chiranjit Chakraborty said women should dress according to the occasion
“A woman should wear different outfits for a funeral and a discotheque. What she should wear while travelling on a crowded train may differ from her attire at a party. Everyone knows that, everyone is aware of that.”
– Chiranjit Chakraborty
Also read: 31 Insensitive Comments On Rape Which Will Make You Angry As Hell
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