re: Why did our President only call on female reporters during his press conference?

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He did notify the press beforehand.

Here's a link about it:

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The article doesn't say Oduma notified all of the press that only female reporters were going to be called on during the press conference.

It only says, "The television networks were advised in advance that they were not going to be called upon because each of them has asked the President a question at least twice since November, and several of them have had exclusive interviews in that time."

The article does say, "White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the move was an intentional way to highlight women reporters."

However, the article doesn't say anything about all of the press being notified beforehand that the press conference was going to be used to highlight only female reporters so no male reporters were going to be called on to ask a question.

Apparently, Oduma thinks the only way he could highlight female reporters is to discriminate against male reporters by deliberately not calling on them.

It sounds like a case of Affirmative Action for female reporters.

If Oduma really wanted to highlight female reporters, a better way would be to have a press conference for only female reporters.

That way, the press media that didn't normally have a female reporter assigned to Oduma's press conferences could send a female reporter to the females only press conference in order to have a chance to ask Oduma a question.

If Oduma did that then all of the male reporters wouldn't waste their time and energy going to the females only press conference since they would know beforehand that Oduma was going to call on only female reporters.

Also, if a male reporter still wanted a chance to ask Oduma a question at the females only press conference then the male reporter could dress up as a woman and claim that even though he/she was born a man he/she self identified as a woman.

Watching Oduma have to call on the cross dressing male reporter when he/she raised his/her hand to ask Oduma a question would have made the press conference very interesting.