A WOMAN'S WORTH
Today was interesting enough
instead of the usual classes.we had to attend a conference.about a thousand of us
on women rights...?
we had a few guest speakers. but most notably was Ms Dana Lam, president of AWARE
yes that AWARE
everyone knew what had happen. if you dont, erm which rock did you live under? so anyway alot of topics were covered.
foreign brides
family domestic violence
dating violence
gender equality
we had daniel martin from 93.8 live coming in to do a live recording of it! so you can hear the discussions this friday at 9pm on the radio okay! though the most controversial and heated discussions werent recorded down.
dana lam was very much particular about gender equality. although her presentation was flawed and her findings were without any good basis. i feel that she was trying to shove her point down our throats and she was rather biased against the male gender.
gender equality
i feel gender equality, in my opinion that is, has two major topics to talk about in singapore.
1) Politics
as we all know, there arent many women in the parliament although for what reason, i still do not know. i'm sure many women feels that they do not have a strong foundation to voice their opinion in the parliament.
okay i shall admit, women in politics arent my strong point. so girls! what are your VIEWS on women in politics?
2) National Slavery Service
THIS ONE! Singaporean guys, for a very long time, felt that they are being treated unfairly, having been forced to go into ns whether they like it or not. and that the girls and foreigners do not need to.
foreigners are another ball game all together
alot of guys feel that because of the 2 years service, they lost alot of their youths and that they enter the working field much much later than the girls and thus are at and unfair advantage.
plus there's the 10 year ICT cycle and 40 years of reservice... -.-
today, this girl pointed out that its not fair for women to serve ns because, she lay down the question, would the guys rather have 2 years of ns OR 40 years of menstruation and all the pain that comes with it.
all i can say is, what a bunch of bullcrap. thats like comparing apple with durian.
so how our body is made up affects what are our liabilities and responsiblities and the salary we're drawing?
know what, i'm tired of typing zzzz
but i'm glad i managed to attend this conference because it really opened up my eyes to alot of things. and it showed me what i really wanna do next time! although i feel that it is somewhat lopsided because we all hear it from female perspectives and not from the male side.
as alex pointed out, if its all about gender equality, shouldnt there be 2 women and 2 men on the panel instead of 4 women?
so i'll just lay down the question...
WHAT IS A WOMAN'S WORTH?
Sunday, November 08, 2009
GEE
amazing!~
