Open Letter to President Macron, Women of the World Network

“Dear President Macron,

With all respect, I am afraid you have committed a huge mistake. In this cases, the best you can do is accept it, apologize and, to do it impressively, receive at the Elysée Palace some of the women who have felt gratuitously insulted –I suppose by blunder or plain ignorance–, listen to them, and learn from them. And it is not just that with your famous quote you accuse the mothers of large families of uncultured and unskilled, but also it shows your own social and family ignorance. Something I consider quite disturbing in a person that rules a country. The truth is that I do not fully understand your thinking. I do not comprehend the suspected contradiction between studies and large families. I do not realize why the fact of having studies is, from your point of view, incompatible with having 7, 8, or 9 children (or as for my part, 10 children), I do not get how deciding to have a very large family is a clear sign of poor culture. Perhaps it is because you consider that children are a burden to women’s development?...Leonor Tamayo”.

Source: https://www.womenworldplatform.com/en/news/122/open-letter-to-president-macron-