Well, at least there was no gerbil involved :-)

But:

"I'm coming to a new realization of how much sexism still permeates our culture - whether it's the Senate Majority Leader who thinks nothing of an arm around the shoulder of the female Speaker of the House, or the US President who gives the German Chancellor an uninvited shoulder rub. The Gere incident is no different. Are these really our models of public decorum, respect and equality?"

Our role models? Of course not. This President doesn't believe a woman
should control whether or not her womb continues to be occupied,
so why should we look to him as an egalitarian role model? As for
the Senate Majority leader, it is the upper house, after all :-)
Then again, why should we look to a Hollywood hunk to be a role
model for for gender equality and decorum? I don't recall him
volunteering for that role.