Discussion: Dalai Lama: I Could See A Female Successor, But She 'Must Be Very Attractive'

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“If female Dalai Lama come, then that female must be attractive,” he replied. “Otherwise not much use.”

Myrie laughed at his response.

“You’re joking, I’m assuming?” Myrie asked.

“No, I meant it, true,” the Dalai Lama said.

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Thanks just awfully Mr Lama. How about this woman? I don’t think she’s busy.

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Best laugh of the day!!

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Of course, that would literally be over his dead body, so I guess he’d get his comeuppance.

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-Record scratch-

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Llama spit?

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Of all people in the world, this is a man I would give benefit of the doubt…

I suspect he believes this more poorly reflects society than his own opinion.

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Remember Lost Horizons, book or movie from the Thirties? Unless the lama leaves the lamasery in Tibet he’ll live hundreds of years.

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Is this the DL’s way of saying it won’t be Carly?

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Well, for all the good he does and right things he says, he is still old dude with his generation’s mindset.

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Although the guy could be just another out of touch male making a sexist remark, I also suspected he was either joking or commenting on societal approval of good-looking individuals, male (as he pointed to his own face) or female, in high office. The interviewer did not correctly follow-up on the comment for true clarity, and the question needs to be asked again.

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Except she asked if he was joking and he said he wasn’t.

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The weirdest part isn’t just that he told this to a reporter, but that he was telling this as a story he told a different reporter fifteen years earlier who had asked the same question. And he’s acting like this was such a great response that he’ll say it again, when…no. What are you even talking about? You’ve had fifteen years to work on this and that’s the best you can do?

And seriously, I can even understand the part about him saying a female Lama would have to be attractive, if he meant how beauty comes from within, blah blah blah. But he straight up says that a female Lama wouldn’t be of much use if she wasn’t attractive. And now I’m wondering what exactly it is that Mr. Lama does that it’d require a female version to be attractive? He does wear robes a lot for a man his age.

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He has a point. There’s no way he could have succeeded for so long in his role as the Dalai Lama were he not such a strikingly delicious hunk of man. Seriously, look at that picture and tell me you don’t want to jump his bones.

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Naked too. Don’t forget naked. Heh heh.

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While it’s not 100% clear if the Dalai Lama was joking or being entirely serious, given his stature and his tireless advocacy work, this may have just been the case of a miscommunication in the interview, as the Dalai Lama is not a fluent English speaker.

This week’s comment mirrors a comment he made to The Sunday Times in May, where he said if he was reincarnated as a woman, “then her face must be very attractive” or “nobody pay much attention.”

The comment, read from this light, is then a joke criticizing the existing state of inequality that women face rather than a sexist remark.

The Dalai Lama said that he would be pleased if he had a female successor because women are more “sensitive and more compassionate” in a 2013 interview with the British broadcast company, Channel 4 News.

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He’s channeling Donald Trump. Such is the power of the Mr. T.

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By Philip Delves-The Telegraph- Broughton in New York12:01AM GMT 17 Jan 2002
A FLORIDA town’s attempt to honour the black actor James Earl Jones for Martin Luther King Day has gone awry, with a commemorative plaque praising James Earl Ray, the civil rights leader’s killer, instead.
Jones, who was the voice of Darth Vader and has appeared in many advertisements, was due to receive the tribute from his hometown of Lauderhill on Saturday.
Unfortunately, the plaque returned from the engravers this week reading: "Thank you James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive." Ray was convicted of murdering King at a Memphis motel in 1968.
The local company that ordered the plaque, Adpro, called the mistake “chilling” and “eerie”. Gerald Wilcox, the company’s owner, said the manufacturer in Texas was to blame.
A non-English-speaking employee was accused of misreading the order. It was a mistake, not an intended insult, said the manufacturers. A corrected plaque will be ready by Saturday.

**A twofer! Blame Texas and a damned foreigner!**
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