コロナで料理宅配禁止、「女に料理させれば」とレバノン内相

【ベイルートＡＦＰ＝時事】レバノンのムハンマド・ファフミ内務・自治相は新型コロナウイルスの封鎖措置によるフードデリバリーの禁止に対応するには、女性に料理を作らせればいいと発言した。国内でファフミ氏をからかう声が上がっている。（写真はレバノンのムハンマド・ファフミ内務・自治相）
　レバノンでは新型コロナウイルスの感染者数が１０万人を超え、病院の集中治療室が逼迫（ひっぱく）しており、感染拡大を阻止するため１４日から、２週間の部分的なロックダウン（都市封鎖）を開始した。
　一日中外出が禁止され、レストランやスーパーからの人気のフードデリバリーもできなくなる日曜日、人々はどうすればいいかと記者に尋ねられたファフミ氏は、「女に少し料理させればいい」と皮肉まじりに発言した。
　同国の閣僚による性差別的な発言に衝撃を受けた女性たちは、ＳＮＳで反応し、「＃Ｎｏｔ＿ｃｏｏｋｉｎｇ＿ｏｎ＿Ｓｕｎｄａｙ（日曜日には料理しない）」と宣言した。
　大学准教授のカルメン・ゲハ氏はツイッターに「性差別は私たち女性に対する根深い抑圧と差別をもたらし、国家の『指導者たち』は恥ずべき形で不平等を支持している」と投稿。たびたび批判を受ける公共サービスに言及し、「彼ら（行政）がごみを回収してリサイクルした日なら私は楽しく料理する」と述べた。
　受賞歴のあるジャーナリストのダラル・マワド氏は「この国の政治家の言うことと意識のレベルの一例」と非難した。
　レバノンの男性たちもこの動きに乗り、「＃Ｆａｈｍｉ＿ｃｈａｌｌｅｎｇｅ（ファフミ・チャレンジ）」と銘打って、野菜を切ったりコンロの前でフライパンを振ったりする写真を投稿した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/11/17-12:18）

Lebanese have poked fun at outgoing interior minister Mohamed Fahmi after he suggested the solution to a ban on deliveries during a coronavirus lockdown was for women to start cooking.
Lebanon started a two-week partial lockdown on Saturday to try to stem the spread of the Covid-19 virus as cases topped 100,000 and intensive care hospital departments became overwhelmed.
When a journalist asked Fahmi what Lebanese should do on Sunday when a day-long curfew suspended popular food deliveries from restaurants and supermarkets, he quipped: Let women cook a little.
Appalled women reacted by lambasting the minister's sexist comment on social media, and vowing they were #Not_cooking_on_Sunday.
#Sexism results in deep rooted repression & discrimination against us women, national 'leaders' disgracefully support inequalities, associate professor Carmen Geha responded on Twitter.
I will cook happily the day they pick up and recycle garbage, she added, referring to oft-criticised public services.
Award-winning journalist Dalal Mawad slammed what she called a sample of the level of discourse and awareness among this country's politicians.
Lebanese men joined in posting images of themselves dicing up vegetables or shaking pans on the stove, as they took on the #Fahmi_challenge -- to be a man and cook.
I apologise, honourable minister, that today I cooked for my sons, one user, a divorced man raising his sons on his own, wrote beside a picture of him serving a meal on Facebook.
I apologise because their mother is a doctor like me and the head of a department in France, and I and my children are very proud of her.
Lebanon is also reeling from a devastating blast at Beirut's port in August that killed more than 200 people, and a raging economic crisis that sparked mass protests last autumn against entrenched politicians viewed as incompetent and out of touch.
Gender equality Mr Fahmi, have you ever heard about it? Or too busy ruining our country with your bunch of friends?, wrote another Lebanese man on Facebook in English.
Another one made a video to the tune of the Mission: Impossible soundtrack, encouraging others to follow suit, and finishing with the revelation: Men... also do the washing up.