North Korea military body dismisses South’s female president and the ‘venomous swish’

[AConfusedSocialDemocrat]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s first public, senior-level mention of South Korea’s first female president ended up being a sexist crack. The body that controls North Korea’s military complained Wednesday about the “venomous swish” of her skirt. (http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/13/north-korea-military-body-dismisses-souths-female-president-and-the-swish-of-her-skirt/)

[Althusser]

I don't understand what they mean by "venomous swish." Why was the remark sexist?

[AConfusedSocialDemocrat]

From the article:


The term “swish of skirt” is often used in Korean to describe women acting in a way seen as overly aggressive, such as housewives trying to micromanage all aspects of their children’s educations.
Moon Mee-kyung, an analyst at the government-affiliated Korean Women’s Development Institute in Seoul, called the North’s use of the term an insult against South Korea and all women.
“We don’t say a `swish of pants’ when describing men. The term disparages women as a group,” she said.
North Korea, which is a strongly male-dominated society, has a history of making sexist comments about powerful women, including Park.
Before she became president, a poem carried by the government Uriminzokkiri website described Park as a “dirty prostitute” and a “yushin prostitute” who pulls up her skirts in front of the United States. Park’s father proclaimed what he called a “yushin constitution” in 1972 to prolong his dictatorship.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

Isn't that the same as saying she is a *****?

[AConfusedSocialDemocrat]

Probably.