Diana patted her companion on the shoulder. Kaori, your reaction is exactly what that horrid man was aiming at. But they're supposed to be objective. And politicians are supposed to be honest, and industrialists are supposed to look after their workers, and care about the environment. But we know most of them don't.
People are only people.
Everyone is doing the best they can. He is doing his best. He would have gone along with our request for a female journalist. But he is a mean small-minded person, and he couldn't accept that we preferred a woman to him. Our request was a challenge to his position as section chief.