4 posts tagged “sexist”
I was reading the Parliamentary review for the 5th of May and I saw this line....
"Jika tidak, bola sepak negara kita akan terus bermain bola seperti pondan yang bermain bola."
Translated: "If not, our national football team will be like gays playing football"
This "gem" of a statement was put out by the "honorable" MP from Batu Pahat, Dr. Haji Mohd. Puad Zarkashi when speaking of how bribery and gambling in our local football leagues has made our football players play like gay guys.
First off, I'm disappointed that such a statement was made by a supposed intellectual with a doctorate.
Secondly, the honorable MP has obviously never seen some of the gay guys I have in the gym, because if anything, they look like they would definitely do a better playing football than our national team.
Thirdly, what makes the honorable MP even think that all our current football players are straight?
As if he'd know, la kan....
What is it with UMNO MPs and their racist, sexist, and arrogant slurs....?
Welcome to the Malaysian Parliament, where we honor where our Members of Parliament with words of kindness, open debates, civility and respect among all those doing their duty to serve the community.
Or so it seemed in the 1950s.
It is amazing, the things you can get away with saying in the august halls of Parliament in Malaysia, and I'm sure we did not learn this from the English.
Allow me to give you a taste of what happened recently in Parliament in Malaysia.
An Opposition MP inquired about why the Parliament roof had a leak in it. This MP is a woman, who asked the question in a very civil manner.
The reply she got was this.
"Where's the leak. The MP from Batu Gajah (the one who brought up the issue) also leaks every month."
Welcome to Malaysian politics.
And now, allow me to introduce you to the two chauvinist assholes who were elected by the people in their districts. MP Datuk Mukhtar Bung Radin from Kinbatangan, and MP Datuk Mohd Said Yusof from Jasin.
Our Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, says that he has a lot of respect for women, and that he was a loyal and caring son to his mother, and he was also a caring husband to his wife, who recently passed on due to cancer.
Dearest Prime Minister, I don't question your respect for women, but I do question your integrity as a Prime Minister and as a gentleman for doing nothing to show the world that such things are intolerable in today's society.
Here's a link to Wikipedia, which links to a video that I will not pollute my blog with.
I have never understood this. Why the heck would parents want separate national service camps based on sex?
If there was ever a war, or a national emergency, would this actually matter? Would they want to sort the dying victims, buried under debris to be saved by either guys or girls?
Religious taboo be damned in this one. In the case of an emergency, the sex of the person in charge of the rescue operation should not be an issue.
What's more, they want to make this compulsory course non-compulsory for girls. Why?!
You think that if you were ever in a war, the enemy would go "Send the ladies to fight the ladies"...
WTF?!
A friend once told me how thieves in a car reached out the side window and grabbed her purse while she was walking the streets of KL in broad daylight.
What was she supposed to do?
Hang on to the handbag and be dragged on the tar road, while her skin is rubbed off on the coarse surface for a few kilometres?
Another story I heard was how a group of people were eating in a food court, and a person just reached over and snatched one of the handbags on the table.
Who would expect such a thing to happen in the food court of our central public transportation depot?
Plus, I noticed that this minister also found it right to once again put women with expensive taste and a sense of fashion as the reason behind a crime.
Why are our government servants being revealed to being ever more sexists and chauvinistic nowadays?
Women are not to be blamed for actually having a sense of fashion and being proud to show that they actually know the worth of a handbag, or their attire. They have every right to dress for whatever occasion they go to, be it a cocktail party dress to paint the town red or even the gothic styled teens that can now be seen in KL every weekend. It's called the freedom of expression. By the way, this applies to guys as well.
Just because the government cannot find a solution to solve the increase in snatch thieves, it does not give them the right to simply push the blame towards the public.
So if the government is really insisting that the public should be blamed for being careless and for having expensive taste, then I think we can blame the government for unemployment, increasing costs of living and protecting our automobile industry at the expense of the people, because these are some of the reasons anyone has to resort to this type of crime to begin with.
