{"id":62925,"date":"2012-12-03T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=62925"},"modified":"2013-06-15T02:06:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T20:36:06","slug":"sexist-remarks-minister-should-not-have-referred-to-my-looks-and-womanhood-rosy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sexist-remarks-minister-should-not-have-referred-to-my-looks-and-womanhood-rosy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexist Remarks: Minister Should Not Have Referred To My Looks And Womanhood &#8211; Rosy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI consider it as an insult. The minister should not have referred to my looks and womanhood in that manner,\u201d says UNP MP Rosy Senanayake.\u00a0Rosy Senanayake\u00a0made these remarks against\u00a0Transport Minister Kumara Welgama today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62926\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sexist-remarks-minister-should-not-have-referred-to-my-looks-and-womanhood-rosy\/rosy-senanayake\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62926\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62926\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62926\" title=\"ROSY-SENANAYAKE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ROSY-SENANAYAKE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosy Senanayake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Transport Minister Kumara Welgama told Parliament today he had no words to express his feelings towards UNP MP <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Rosy+Senanayake&amp;x=14&amp;y=8\">Rosy Senanayake<\/a><\/span> whom he described as \u2018a charming and beautiful lady\u2019.\u00a0The Minister made these remarks when a question was directed at him by Rosay Senanayake during question time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so happy to answer a question by a beauty queen like Rosy Senanayake.\u00a0\u00a0 You are such a charming woman. I have no words to describe my feelings,\u201d the minister said.\u00a0He said, \u201cI cannot explain my feelings here. But if you meet me outside Parliament, I will describe them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rosy Senanayake said there was no need for the minister to make these remarks merely because of her as a woman.\u00a0\u201cI never insult women. It is a fact known to everybody,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O6QdTeEGNUc<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"\u2018Wives Lose Their Appeal With Age\u2019 \u2013 Indian Minister Taken To Court Over \u2018Sexist\u2019 Remark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wives-lose-their-appeal-with-age-indian-minister-taken-to-court-over-sexist-remark\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u2018Wives Lose Their Appeal With Age\u2019 \u2013 Indian Minister Taken To Court Over \u2018Sexist\u2019 Remark<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":62926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[6817,6816],"class_list":["post-62925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","tag-gender-and-politics","tag-sexist-remarks-in-sri-lanka-and-rosy-senanayak"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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