COMMENT It must be sad for the prime minister's wife, Rosmah Mansor, that for receiving an honorary doctorate from a foreign university, she got so much flak.

The university that awarded it, Curtin University of Western Australia, was hit with brickbats too, judging by the strongly-worded postings on its Facebook page after the award was announced. Curtin was probably astonished by the reception.

As one commentor wrote:

"Curtin dear, you didn't anticipate these at all, did you?"

The postings were so many and so fast and furious that Curtin removed some of them. And justified it thus:

"Thanks for your feedback around one of our recent awards. We are as always supportive of free expression but have removed some postings as they're repeats."

Why is there so much negative reaction to Rosmah's getting the honorary doctorate?