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The organization for Women’s Rights, AWARE, is holding their EGM Suntec City’s Convention Center, Hall 402 this Saturday (2nd May) at 2pm. This gives women a chance to cast a vote of no confidence to the new EXCO whom are mostly made up of Christians whose reasons of taking over the old EXCO were to act in God’s name as they feel that the old EXCO were pro-gay.

Men rejoice! Now is the best time to advise your female friends and relatives to NOT go down to the EGM, and this is why…

Female Christians should run AWARE
6 out of the 12 committee positions are held by Christian women from Church of Our Saviour. Why is this awesome? Just look at their notes on ‘God’s Order For The Family’. Here are some of the highlights!

• The wife is in subjection to her husband
• Head of every woman is the man
• (God’s) will for a young woman is to do 4 things: marry, bear children, guide the house, not be a reproach to her husband
• Wives are to choose the submissive role freely
• Submission means to continually deny themselves and yield the rule to men

 

Men! Good news ain’t it? Since most of the committee is made up of women from a church with such teachings and since they are on a mission for God, it’s going to be great! We don’t need women to have rights. All we want is a woman marry, near us children and not be a reproach to us. All women should also deny themselves and yield the rule to us. Way to go!

So take this chance to stop women from denying the actions of the new EXCO. Better yet, ask women to support the new EXCO. It’s about time the real women take over a Women’s Rights group.

Spread His word! *Guffaws*

Unless you’ve been living under the ground, digging for dragon eggs in Singapore, I’m sure you have heard of the situation about AWARE Singapore. If you have not, let me help by explaining what is AWARE and what has been going on.

AWARE is a not-for-profit, non-government 25-year-old organization in Singapore by women, for women which has a vision of improving the quality of life of women in Singapore by promoting equality. A couple of months before AWARE’s AGM held in March, there was a suddenly rise in membership and out of the 100 odd members that attended the AGM, about 80 were actually new members. No surprise at what came next. 9 out of 12 of the executive committee (EXCO) places went to the new members, including the position of the president of AWARE.

True enough to speculation, the new president, Josie Lau and the new EXCO came out in the open and admitted that it was an orchestrated move to takeover the old EXCO of AWARE and the reasoning given is that the old EXCO has turned AWARE into a pro-homosexual organization and the new EXCO wants to correct that in god’s name and bring AWARE back to it’s roots. (Correct me if I am wrong about this.)

I can be sure enough to say that many people, including Christians, disagree with what the new EXCO is doing. Bringing religion into a secular organization like AWARE and telling everyone that the takeover was because the old EXCO did pro-homosexuality things like bringing it up during sexual education in schools, screened a ‘lesbian film’ and invited homosexual people to share during speeches. Being homosexual is just the way it is. The gay kids won’t turn any less gay if he/she doesn’t take part in the sexual educations, watched the film or listen to the homosexual people speak. In fact, learning to embrace homosexuality at a younger age will lower sexual discrimination and reduce confusion.

AWARE is an organization by WOMEN, for WOMEN which has a vision of improving the quality of life of WOMEN in Singapore by promoting EQUALITY. Now which part of part of the vision resonates with its new members bringing religion into play and claiming that homosexuality is wrong. Are homosexual women not women? Are homosexual women not deserving of equality? The agenda of anti-homosexuality can very well be carried out if these Christians set up an organization of their own. But no, they had to take over a secular 25-year-old women’s rights organization and claim their actions to be in god’s name.

These women bring Christians a bad name in my humble opinion.

Saying all that, I am just a straight man living in this world and if you are a Singaporean woman and you value WOMEN’S rights which is what the real AWARE should be all about, go involve yourself in their Extraordinary General Meeting (EOGM) on 2 May, Saturday where you can have a chance to make your voice count. Details can be found here.

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There was a discussion between me and KuKuNehNeh before dinner the other day about homosexuality and in particular, about lesbians.

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She has quite a number of lesbian/bisexual female friends and she does hear quite a lot of unhappiness and thus gather a lot of skepticism on same-sex relationships. She doesn’t treat them any lesser as friends but given the chance, she would turn them all straight.

I, on the other hand, prefer them to stay true to who they are.

“As long as they are happy, why not be gay?” I asked.

“But they are not happy! And imagine them growing old. No children. So lonely!”

“Life is not all about being rich, having the best job, getting married or having children. These are just social norms that most of us follow blindly to attain ‘success’. And besides, there are so many abandoned children in this world, we could do better with more gay couples adopting children.”

“But they do think about going straight sometimes…”

“So do they think that way because they really want to or is it because society wants them to?” I asked.

Society may herd you to follow the social norms and if you decide to follow it, don’t regret it. We are what we are. Do things that we believe in (without intentional hurting of one another) and the world will soon accept us for who we are.