Dylan Bettencourt
Despite being Tanzania’s first female president, Samia Suluhu Hassan has stunned her country and the world by saying the national Under/23 female soccer team are too unattractive for marriage.
“If we bring them here and line them up. For those with flat chests, you might think they are men, not women,” she said at State House in Dar es Salaam.
The 61-year-old first congratulated the nation’s female football team for winning the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations challenge cup.
But President Suluhu Hassan remarked some players did not have a chance at getting married because of “the way they are, a life of marriage… is just a dream”.
Her comments were quick to draw the fury of social media users.
One Twitter user commented: “This is what the first female president has to say about other women who are challenging stereotypes by playing professional soccer!”
“She is not only wrong, but she lies, yet again! What she says is not true!” stated another user.
“She has generalised without scientific facts regarding the marriage prospects of athletes with flat chests and them not having beauty!”
Image source: @AlJazeera
