What the hell?! Someone has really stretched the definition of sexism here or the alleged problem exists in some alternate universe only. I took the time and l

What the hell?! Someone has really stretched the definition of sexism here or the alleged problem exists in some alternate universe only. I took the time and listened the audio recording. What happened is: - The guy spends minutes talking about how good and smart Ms Lovell is and how she suits the role perfectly - And in the end makes the short remark about that a sexy single lady who is now a sexy married woman, obviously to celebrate the recent happy event. - He even pointed out how lucky her new husband was instead of, say, drooling at her sexiness himself. - Everybody laughed. - Ms Lovell laughed, and made some witty comments before starting with the real business. And then some third party guy gets upset because he thinks there's a problem somewhere. Excuse me but this reeks of steep hypersensitivism. It might certainly be sexist to say somewhat that would expand to "she's so smart that we picked her for this role eventhough she's only a woman" or "we chose her and that is because she was just too sexy to pass". That would be somehow implying that women are lesser but at least they can look good. But this was clearly not the case in this event. What happened was a compliment, both on her recent marriage and related to that, her good looks. Emphasis on the word "good". It was a compliment: the man stated what he thought were positive facts about her, and especially not pointed to anything negative nor exhibited, say, disturbing personal interest in her. The strange thing is that it's not only that as if women couldn't take compliments anymore—I think most of them can
—but, rather, it seems that some men can't take it anymore to observe women being complimented. This is just crazy. We're all men and women and men do pay attention to good looking women and women do pay attention to good looking men (at least if only they let themselves). That is perfectly normal and there's generally nothing wrong in making a compliment about one's good looks. While there are subtle but complex rules about social interaction, flirting, including making comments about good looks or of even sexual nature, most of all that used to be the norm, and generally well received and lavishly given, without the slightest hint of sexist nature.