New Zealand’s Defense Minister Judith Collins has decried what she called misogynistic online comments about the woman commander of a navy ship which ran aground, caught fire and sank off the coast of Samoa on Sunday.
“Seriously, it’s 2024,” Judith Collins told reporters Thursday. “What the hell’s going on here?”
Collins: Well there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that navy ships captained by women aren’t safe.
Collins: Yeah, that’s not very typical, l’d like to make that point.
Well, how is it untypical?
Collins: Well there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that navy ships captained by women aren’t safe.
Was this navy ship captained by a woman safe?
Collins: Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
The ones that are safe?
Collins: Yeah, the ones that didn’t run aground, catch fire, and sink off the coast of Samoa.