Oh Yes He Did! Ukrainian Women Unite Online Against Presidential Branding
During a visit to Paris on June 17, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (left) called beautiful women a Ukrainian "brand," prompting a swift online backlash.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy inserted foot firmly in mouth during his presidential tour of Europe this week when he said his nation's women were "beautiful" and served as a good tourism "brand" for the country.
He returned to a Twitter firestorm, after Ukrainian women made their disappointment with the comedian-turned-president clear with a raft of posts under the social-media hashtags #ÑнетуриÑтичнийбренд (#Iamnotyourtourismbrand) and #Ñнебренд (#Iamnotyourbrand).
"I am disgusted that the president of Ukraine would allow himself to talk about the women of my country as a 'tourist brand,' wrote Natalya Koval, a local deputy and mother of four from Khmelnytskiy Oblast in western Ukraine.
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So, the objection is he called them a brand? Because I can see how it's easy for males to call women beautiful but even in this day and age, that can be a negative.
