Outburst as Tanzania President Calls Women Footballers 'Flat Chested' & 'Unsuitable For Marriage'

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan is under fire for suggesting that women footballers would not be attractive candidates for marriage. Social media users speak of her remarks being humiliating for women. Tanzania's president has been criticized for describing the country's female footballers as having "flat chests" and being unattractive for marriage. Samia Suluhu Hassan made the remarks while hosting Tanzania's under-23 men's football team at State House in the coastal city of Dar es Salaam. The president said that while female footballers were making the East African country proud by winning trophies, some did not stand a chance of getting married because of the way they looked: "If we bring them here and line them up, for those with flat chests, you might think they are men — not women." She said that while some sportswomen were married, most of them were not, "and for the way they are, a life of marriage is a just a dream."