The question posed above is not – please note – if Hillary Clinton, as newly eclected Minister of Foreign Affairs (if I’m not mistaken?), will get along with Russia, but in Russia. This question came suddenly upon me tonight as I found the following on the restroom doors in a Russian resturant:
I checked, and “Mr. President” is indeed in this case just another way of saying “Men’s room”.
This is, not suprisingly at all, the ladies’ room.
I figured Hillary would be just as confused as I was faced with such difficult situations as the one pictured above in Russia, so I asked the staff. I said that maybe you could change “First Lady” into Mrs. President. In the name not only of feminism, though that’s all good stuff, but in the name of equality. But they pretended not to follow my foreign logics, and my battle to make Russia more Hillary friendly failed.
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That is so funny.
If women’s restroom is marked Mrs. President, the men’s restroom should be marked as First Gentleman.
One can not have two Presidents as same time.
In Russia the position is called “Министр Иностанных Дел” but in America Hillary’s title will be “Secretary of State.”
The women’s room should never be called “Mrs. President.” That assumes she is married.
Как насчёт: Madame President?
I saw a hospital that had the restrooms labeled “doctors” and “nurses”. The doctor I saw there was a female. Not only that, but she had a male nurse working for her. Now that gets things real confusing.
Thomas – that’s so funny! Indeed, we need to progress gender studies to avoid such… absurdness. Or perhaps that’s what the hospital had in mind from the very beginning?
And thank you Moonyeen Albrecht, for fixing my ‘Russification” of Hillary’s title. Some things I just never can get right…
Dale – but what if they’re not presidents of the same country? Or if things are like they are in Russia; Medvedev and Putin? They could put: Madame President and Mister Premier Minister on the doors… Now that I think would be a hit.
An even worse one was: When I was assigned to the Navy. In the headquarters building they had three restrooms. They were labeled in this order, “men”, “officers” and “women”. Some of us wits used to say the Navy thought their officers were somewhere between men and women. But it got worse when there were several female officers assigned. They finally just took the sign off the door that said officers.