Reasonable people can disagree over whether President Trump’s interaction with a female reporter from Ireland on Tuesday, beckoning her forward during a phone call to compliment her smile, constitutes sexism. Even as someone who rarely sees sexism in anything, I’m inclined to believe it does, though on a small enough scale that it wouldn’t bother me personally.

The reporter, Caitriona Perry of RTE News, has since racked up viral media coverage and earned scores of new admirers, all for handling the incident like an empowered professional woman and providing others a case study in how manage weird situations without victimizing yourself.