GENDER EQUALITY AND FEMINISM CONFUSED

There is a wonderful report on gay supporting PNG Attitude that confirms our stance that feminism is being promoted by foreign lesbian activists rather than gender equality that includes men.

Intellectuals of PNG are starting to take up the rights of men and put pressure on the editor of gay supporting PNG Attitude.   

The message in the national HIV/AIDS campaign should be renamed as LESBIAN GENDER EQUALITY that states that all lesbians are equal to all other lesbians except those involved in domestic violence.

All other women are not important except the pretty young ones who can become adopted daughters of expatriate lesbians.

We can see that in the fact that the foreign lesbians never promote the anti-rape ARV drugs for women. They could not care less.

 

Women advocates confuse gender equality & feminism

KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKIN |

Supported by the Phil Fitzpatrick Writing Fellowship

WE ARE CONVINCED the ‘pedestal’ women leaders in Papua New Guinea, who espouse demagogical rhetoric and make discriminatory speeches about the opposite sex at forums and courses for women from the highest echelons of society, are a wedge towards gender equality.

 

However most of them confuse gender equality with feminism. Their actions and speeches are usually and indelibly feminist and not about gender equality at all.

In any gender equality program, men must be part and parcel of the program for some very obvious reasons.

Statistics tell us that men are the worst culprits when it comes to gender-based violence. Not only that, but men are currently in most positions of power at almost every level in PNG.

It seems that the United Nations Women and all the other UN entities use feminism in their approach rather than advocating gender equality. 

For a start, if you visit any one of the UN offices in Port Moresby you will surely see more females employed than men.  Any men there are usually only employed as drivers for the UN vehicles.

If you go to a workshop on HIV/AIDS in Thailand or Cambodia, for instance, almost all the program officers attending from across the Indian Ocean, Asia and the Pacific area are women.

This situation could lead one to believe that these programs and the gender advocates who go to them are half-baked.

Gender simply means the roles, responsibilities and relationships between men and women. Therefore gender also includes men who have sex with men, trans-genders and lesbians.

In contrast, feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic and social rights for women.

This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment.  A feminist is ‘an advocate or supporter of the rights and equality of women only’.

It was obvious that the UN Women’s advocacy for the 22 nominated seats in the PNG parliament last year was part of a feminist movement.

Other useful programs, like primary education for all girls, personal female viability and life skills and men and boys training on the right way to treat women are much more vital programs for the betterment of women than the 22 nominated seats, which will only really serve a few lucky women.

Don’t tell me that it worked in Rwanda. Rwanda has just come out of a terrible genocide. Women were totally marginalised, raped and massacred during the genocide.

Now there is currently a higher population of women than men. Their constitution allows for 24 reserved seats for women because of the ugly inhuman behaviour from their menfolk.

Malawi, Uganda, South Africa and Namibia all fund a plethora of large organisations that take the advocacy programs far and wide throughout the country, consistently changing people’s behaviour.

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