Emmanuel Macron really screws up badly

The French president claimed lockdown critics don't live in the real world, while a Muslim woman wearing a veil is a "feminist":

Emmanuel Macron has claimed that those who criticise French lockdown policy are not living in the ‘real world’, while praising one veil-wearing Muslim woman as a feminist.

Incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron has had a strange last 48 hours on the campaign trail, denouncing one voter as not living in the “real world” over her criticisms of the President’s lockdown policy, while praising another woman for being both a feminist who wears an Islamic veil, she said, voluntarily.

It makes no difference whether she wore it willingly or not, it's demeaning, and a show of self-contempt. That he would say somebody like that is a feminist is incredibly dumb, because it legitimizes a symbol of oppression. This is truly awful because of what it's bound to lead to.