lerxstcat wrote:Considering the MP actually DID reach out and take Michelle Obama's hand, you can't truly say that he snubbed her. He snubbed his own policy of not touching women he's not related too, in reality.
Did you really not comprehend that this is what happened, SG?
"I tried to prevent (being touched) with my hands but Mrs. Michelle held her hands too far toward me (so) we touched," Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring told tens of thousands of followers on Twitter.
He (accidentally?) shook her hand then backpeddled and twittered that he didn't mean to.
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/michelle ... 26528.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =131188597
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... d02bda.711
If Obama shook Hu Jin Tao's hand then posted on facebook that it was an accident, Obama is snubbing Hu Jin Tao. Or he's at least backpeddling that he should have snubbed him but didn't. I understand the difference, but at the end of the day the effect is the same, one person is excluding and to an extent even denigrating another.
The reason this is so funny is because of Obama's "The world should look to Indonesia as an example" gaffe. Does he seriously want people snubbing each other or backpeddling after having *not* snubbed them because of gender/race/religion? Or would be prefer how it is in the west, that all people are considered equals, with the law providing protection for those that discriminate?
I still just don't understand why the fuck he would herald Indonesia as an example to follow.