YOSHIRO Mori didn’t apparently think twice before making that not-so-tongue-in-cheek comment that women talk too much and thus delay decisions in meetings involving a fair number of the fairer sex.
The octogenarian, former prime minister of Japan quit as president of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, after seemingly biting off more than he could possibly chew.
Well, we have heard enough of men being caught with their foot in the mouth while making unwelcome or crude remarks about the feminine gender – some arising from acute misogyny while others being innocently off-the-cuff.
The rightly assertive female pride of this century has made many such offenders pay dearly – either by legal means or often by heaping ignominy in the social media. The well-known ‘Me-Too’ movement – dedicated more specifically against sexual abusers – in many countries is too recent to forget.
But Mori appears to have made one of the mildest transgressions. Well, being chatty, per se, is not bad and many women may also admit them to be so at least in relative terms to men. Hence the righteousness displayed in showing the door to an otherwise able chief of the much-delayed event is unfortunate.
It’s reported that Mori’s family – wife, daughter and even granddaughter – gave him a “thorough scolding”. The poor man seems to have got an earful even at home from the gender he accused of blabbering too much.
Well, charity begins at home; even getting chastised at home is the beginning of retribution!
Let the lasses be garrulous, but remind them the mottos of the quadrennial event: Faster (let the decisions be made quickly), Higher (let the discussions, even if prolific, be of higher quality) and Stronger (let the deliberations be based on strong fundamentals).
Vish
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