Thank goodness Hillary Clinton didn’t make this list, or I very well may have had to vomit. It did cause me to think of the recent snafu involving Obama and Nikolai Sarkozy and a certain young woman’s rump. Sarkozy (who is French, btw) made no qualms about looking her up one way and down the other, but Obama was just carefully checking the step as he walked, right? *rolls her eyes

Personally, I think the gal should’ve worn something other than a skin-tight skirt when she went to an event with leaders of countries, but I digress. The men still should’ve had the professionalism not to stare. Speaking of inappropriate observations, I witnessed something earlier this week that made me angry. I don’t consider myself a feminist, but this really irked me.

I was at a scholarship awards reception one evening where some local foundations were presenting award letters to their recipients. I’m not the best estimator of crowd numbers, but I’d say there were a couple of hundred people in attendance, mostly scholarship recipients and their families, as well as a handful of us from various schools and organizations that participated in the program.

One of the foundation reps shook hands with two male students as he gave them their letters. When a female student was called, he gave her a big hug and gave her the letter. Honestly, I didn’t think a thing about it at the time. I just figured he knew her and was proud of her. NBD. It was what he said next that got under my skin.

After he handed out the letters, he went to the mic to say a few words on behalf of the foundation. He called out the girl’s name and said, “You know why I had to hug you, right? I might’ve lost my job if I hadn’t, because [head-honcho foundation donor who couldn’t attend the reception] hugs everyone, especially the good-lookin’ young ladies.”

Seriously?! Was that necessary?! How would it have looked if a woman was giving out the award letters and when a young man walked up, she smacked his rump like a baseball player and said, “Good job!” She would be smeared across the front page of the local paper, that’s what. She may very well have lost her job.