Monday, November 26, 2007

The border.

Say if God ( if there's ever one, whether it's Allah, Jesus, or what-so-ever name that you might wanna give "______"?) created man and woman. Two perfectly different creatures but still have distinct similarity where we can categorized them as human race.

Traditionally, man went out to hunt for food, men are stronger, have more strength, kill the enemy, built the shelter and protect the family.

Woman on the other hand, stay home, cook, clean and decorate the house, take care of things as woman are more sensitive and delicate towards details.

These roles and responsibilities are easily defined( or at least i thought so.)

But as time passed, the roles changes and now to a period that we can't and uncertain about how to define the roles of woman and man in society.

Therefore it often raise the issue of the existences of gender equalities. How can we distinguish the border? The fine line that separate the tradition and the future.

Of course, we have argument from both side, women not given enough opportunities, being judge over their responsibilities at work and at home (maternity and time to take care of their kids and all that).

As for positive side, they said there are uprising woman in the society that holds higher position, CEO, and minister, even prime minister now.

But reality check, scale down to Malaysia alone, how many successful woman can you name in 5 mins? ................ i bet you just include your mom in the list. which would be perfectly normal, as they're that influential.

Like what have shown in Devil wears Prada( yes, it's a chic-flick), if Miranda was a guy, nobody would have said anything.

Okay, let's say we scale it down more, to Tertiary education level, student council. You can just have a look at the number and percentage of woman in the public universities student council. Then to a more drastic comparison, just look at the President of the Council only.

By ratio, there are definitely more woman than man in the universities, or can we say the woman are more passive, or they're just not into this? If that's the only argument.






sigh. pardon my frustration.
I'm just sick of people telling me what I can do and what I can't.
Now I'm unsure whether i'm striving to be myself, or just striving to be Different.

5 comments:

xenac said...

Siti hasmah.
Endon
Jeanne
Ooi/Ong/Lee/Tan/Lim
Mari(something) mahathir
Nicol!
Nurul Huda
Jimmy Choo's daughter
And several Datins.
The sports minister
Xandria (*winks*)
Sarah and Hannah Tan
Shalin (zukifli?)
Anita Sarawak
Datuk Michelle (todt?)
PENNY (i think she's from Kedah)
Andy Lau's wife.


i'd let you know when i find out more.

*laughs*
and oh, mom.

( =

goayimm said...

eer.. ooi/ong/lee/tan/lim?

Jimmy choo's daughter?

several datins?

andy lau's wife is successful too? lol

xenac said...

Ooi/Ong/Lee/Tan/Lim means that whichever woman whom has that surname is mentioned (i can imagine several thousand now) *laughs*

datins are succesful. really. the same reason why andy lau's wife is successful. they successfully gained a a credit card with no limits *grins*

And oh oh, jimmy choo's daughter took over his line of shoes already, so she can be said as a very very rich successful woman.
hehehehe.

p.s. i didn't know you could cook. a success right there *evil evil smirk*

=P

goayimm said...

urm. when did i say i can cook.

and datin are successful because they're married to datuk?

but do you consider the men who are married to datuk(woman) successful as well?

cheh.

xenac said...

behind every successful man there is an even more succesful woman (whose father loathes the son, but the daughter is so dear to him, so...)

*i have been watching far too many drama series, i know*

Men behind Datuk women? take Datuk Siti and Datuk K:) datin husbands, they own bars and restaurants and watch footie/play pool the whole day.

the cooking part, jas said it...but i guess you know that already. *laughs* don't sneeze too much.

since you're going to go shopping, and c'mas is around the corner + my bday...so...

don't get me anything. *laughs*