{"id":9334,"date":"2017-03-08T18:52:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/sophie-gregoire-trudeaus-womens-day-post-shameful\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T18:52:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:52:16","slug":"sophie-gregoire-trudeaus-womens-day-post-shameful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/sophie-gregoire-trudeaus-womens-day-post-shameful\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Gregoire Trudeau&#8217;s women&#8217;s day post &#8216;shameful&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and Justin Trudeau\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/103E8\/production\/_94963566_sgt.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Facebook\/Sophie Gregoire Trudeau<figcaption>Image caption                                      Sophie Gregoire Trudeau included this image with her message                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, who is married to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is taking heat over an International Women&#039;s Day post.<\/p>\n<p>She asked people to &quot;celebrate the boys and men in our lives who encourage us to be who we truly are, who treat girls &amp; women with respect&quot; on 8 March. <\/p>\n<p>Ms Gregoire Trudeau urged followers to post images with their &quot;male ally&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>But some Facebook commenters said Ms Gregoire Trudeau&#039;s post was &quot;tone deaf&quot; and even &quot;shameful&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>The post included a photo of her and her husband holding hands. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sophie Gregoire Trudeau: Canadian PM wife sparks &#039;help&#039; debate<\/li>\n<li>International Women&#039;s Day 2017: History, strikes and celebrations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&quot;Why do we have to celebrate men on international women&#039;s day?&quot; Facebook user Bibi Ebel said in one popular comment. &quot;I am puzzled. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;There are so many things that can be done to celebrate women, and yet the call goes out to celebrating men. Allies and unity are crucial, but so is womanhood.&quot; <\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Reuters<figcaption>Image caption                                      Many supported the post by Ms Gregoire Trudeau                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another user, Kristyn Ann, wrote: &quot;This is utterly ridiculous. Shameful really. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think I&#039;ll be taking photos with my daughters, female friends and colleagues instead.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone disagreed with the sentiment by Ms Gregoire Trudeau, a mother-of-three and former entertainment news reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Her post received 11,000 likes and 2,300 &quot;hearts&quot; - more than the angry and crying face emojis that can also be used to react to posts on the social network. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ma&#039;am, despite the backlash you&#039;re taking over this, I&#039;d like to say thank you for the spirit of inclusion it was clearly meant in,&quot; wrote user Ian Stumpf. <\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Reuters<figcaption>Image caption                                      Mr Trudeau has repeatedly spoken of himself as a &quot;feminist&quot;                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Emily Herbert wrote:  &quot;I can&#039;t believe the backlash!! It seems so few men are standing by us in our fight for equality.  It is always nice to appreciate the ones that are.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Ms Gregoire Trudeau also responded to people&#039;s comments on her original post. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Well, now we&#039;re having a conversation! Thanks to everyone for your feedback and pics! Love it,&quot; she wrote a few hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Her message included a promotion for her International Women&#039;s Day events with Plan International Canada, a charity, and Equal Voice, an organisation dedicated to electing more women to political office. <\/p>\n<p>Ms Gregoire Trudeau added: &quot;Our goal is gender equality, and fighting for it is going to require men and women working together - raising our boys and girls to make a difference, hand-in-hand. This is about recognizing that we should be allies on this journey.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>An outspoken advocate for gender equality, Mr Trudeau has repeatedly spoken of himself as a &quot;feminist&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-39187848 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Facebook\/Sophie Gregoire TrudeauImage caption Sophie Gregoire Trudeau included this image with her message Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, who is married to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is taking heat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}