Samantha Bee Visits U.N., Talks Misogyny With Female Heads of State
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee swung by the United Nations to talk misogyny with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, Marshallese President Hilda Heine, and Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović.
James Brown once sang “It’s a man’s world.” This is not a notion lost on these female heads of state. Bachelet talked about the difference between a male president and a female president, saying, “If a [male] president would be moved by something, his eyes full of tears, the voice, you know, he would be sensitive. If you do something like that, you are hysterical.”
Grabar-Kitarović said that she is sometimes objectified or accused of being a porn star. Funny enough, one of the people she is often mistaken for is Coco Austin, wife of rapper Ice-T. Austin popped up in the interview and said, “I’m not the president of Croatia. I’m tired of having to defend her pro eurozone deficit reduction policies. I don’t have an opinion.”
Fortunately there is hope on the horizon in the form of our children. Albright recalled, “My granddaughter, when she was 7, she said, ‘So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddie being secretary of state? Only girls are secretary of state.”
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee airs Mondays at 10:30 p.m. on TBS.
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