Apparently women are capable of causing natural disasters all over the world for being “scantily clad” and “leading young men astray” by “spreading adultery”. Want to read more about this idiocy? Click HERE.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Banting Local Council Sexist Act!
Taken from http://mienly.wordpress.com
(spread this through email, post on your blogs and facebook peeps! Let’s refuse to have leaderships that are discriminatory in any way! )
Dear Y.B Rodziah,
It was a great honour to have you officiate the “Gadis Ceria” event at Majlis Daerah Kuala Langat as well as hearing you speak so eloquently about the need to empower women and encourage the participation of women in decision making process. Sadly, Y.B in my two years’ experience in MDKL I find most of the people in decision making positions are gender biased and very patriarchal.
I would like to highlight a case in point. I sit on the interview board at the council and I find many female candidates are deliberately overlooked because of their gender. Today (8/4/2010) I sat on the interview board to interview candidates for the position of “Public Relations Assistant” or “Pembantu Penerangan”. Clearly, according to the criteria there was no special preference except for those who could read and write in their mother tongue. Out of 25 candidates, two candidates were short listed. A young woman and man who were both staff of the council. They were pretty much at the early stages of their service in MDKL.
They both performed exceptionally well in the interviews. The interview board was made up of the Council President, Administrative Officer and 3 councilors. I was the only female among them, so the gender ration was 4:1. Though there is another female councilor on this board she was not selected to attend this interview. Firstly, the girl had a good mastery of the Tamil language, had a distinction for English and a credit for Bahasa Malaysia. She was very well versed in all 3 languages. She also was very confident and displayed her capability in her interview. The male candidate was as active and capable but he didn’t have the language skills of the girl. The job scope required many language related tasks like producing the council newsletter and updating the website. She displayed obvious prowess in being able to write and speak in her mother tongue which was stated in the job advertisement.
However, when it came to the final decision the Council President made a very deliberate choice to select the male candidate because ” dia lasak dan mampu kerja malam”. Where as the other male councilor mentioned that “women could not perform such tasks”. According to the Council President, the job required the incumbent to be in the Emergency Response Unit which required them to stay out late and to be able to rough it out. I reiterated that this was not stated in the job scope and that the female candidate possessed all the requirements. To which the male councilor mentioned that there were already too many female staff in the council. My protests fell to deaf ears and I just could not believe the level of gender bias that was being displayed by all these men in positions of power. A woman lost out the opportunity for a job suited to her capabilities and qualifications because of her gender! After promoting a pro-women empowerment manifesto, it is shocking and baffling to see this happen in the progressive Pakatan led government. This young woman had been led to believe that she had a chance on a level playing field when she applied for the job. Unfortunately, she was cruelly deprived of the equal opportunity to compete for the job by men in power who were clearly prejudiced against her.
I was truly disempowered as the lone female voice among these men. I was forced into a decision which I felt was a great injustice to the young woman. I want to bring this to your attention so that matters can be rectified. I believe in your wisdom and leadership to undo this injustice.
Thanking you.
Janarthani.A
Local Councilor
Majlis Daerah Kuala Langat
(spread this through email, post on your blogs and facebook peeps! Let’s refuse to have leaderships that are discriminatory in any way! )
Dear Y.B Rodziah,
It was a great honour to have you officiate the “Gadis Ceria” event at Majlis Daerah Kuala Langat as well as hearing you speak so eloquently about the need to empower women and encourage the participation of women in decision making process. Sadly, Y.B in my two years’ experience in MDKL I find most of the people in decision making positions are gender biased and very patriarchal.
I would like to highlight a case in point. I sit on the interview board at the council and I find many female candidates are deliberately overlooked because of their gender. Today (8/4/2010) I sat on the interview board to interview candidates for the position of “Public Relations Assistant” or “Pembantu Penerangan”. Clearly, according to the criteria there was no special preference except for those who could read and write in their mother tongue. Out of 25 candidates, two candidates were short listed. A young woman and man who were both staff of the council. They were pretty much at the early stages of their service in MDKL.
They both performed exceptionally well in the interviews. The interview board was made up of the Council President, Administrative Officer and 3 councilors. I was the only female among them, so the gender ration was 4:1. Though there is another female councilor on this board she was not selected to attend this interview. Firstly, the girl had a good mastery of the Tamil language, had a distinction for English and a credit for Bahasa Malaysia. She was very well versed in all 3 languages. She also was very confident and displayed her capability in her interview. The male candidate was as active and capable but he didn’t have the language skills of the girl. The job scope required many language related tasks like producing the council newsletter and updating the website. She displayed obvious prowess in being able to write and speak in her mother tongue which was stated in the job advertisement.
However, when it came to the final decision the Council President made a very deliberate choice to select the male candidate because ” dia lasak dan mampu kerja malam”. Where as the other male councilor mentioned that “women could not perform such tasks”. According to the Council President, the job required the incumbent to be in the Emergency Response Unit which required them to stay out late and to be able to rough it out. I reiterated that this was not stated in the job scope and that the female candidate possessed all the requirements. To which the male councilor mentioned that there were already too many female staff in the council. My protests fell to deaf ears and I just could not believe the level of gender bias that was being displayed by all these men in positions of power. A woman lost out the opportunity for a job suited to her capabilities and qualifications because of her gender! After promoting a pro-women empowerment manifesto, it is shocking and baffling to see this happen in the progressive Pakatan led government. This young woman had been led to believe that she had a chance on a level playing field when she applied for the job. Unfortunately, she was cruelly deprived of the equal opportunity to compete for the job by men in power who were clearly prejudiced against her.
I was truly disempowered as the lone female voice among these men. I was forced into a decision which I felt was a great injustice to the young woman. I want to bring this to your attention so that matters can be rectified. I believe in your wisdom and leadership to undo this injustice.
Thanking you.
Janarthani.A
Local Councilor
Majlis Daerah Kuala Langat
Thursday, April 1, 2010
The Big Potato Blow Out
- Things you need to know before you read on:
There is a guy at work who likes to make stupid and gross (albeit funny) sex jokes at work. One day, he did a finger gesture to the girl sitting next to him. The girl’s reaction was a disgusted face and the remark, “Eewww! Gross! You look like a potato!” because in reality, he does have an uncanny resemblance to a potato. - The Potato hates me (though he won’t admit it if you ask him) ever since I became close friends with the Sutton. Frankly, I think he’s got some sort of man-friend crush on The Sutton… *shivers*
Now, the story….
I had to make a teacher’s duty roster for Friday’s graduation. The Sutton thought it’d be funny if we added “The Potato” in bracket beside The Potato’s name (his real name, which shall not be mentioned in order to avoid further humiliation to the potato’s part, as well as a means of preventing another possible Big Potato Blow Out).
Anyhoo… The Sutton did it. I warned him that The Potato might get mad, but he thought it’d be funny. Let’s face it, it is kinda funny. So The Sutton made his little change, and I let him print it out.
The next day, The Potato was not happy. He ignored The Sutton. Unfortunately, he didn’t ignore me. He called me over and started shouting his potato ass off to me. Ordering me to change the duty roster. Yelling about how it was inappropriate behavior. Ummm.. I’m sorry, but weren’t you the one who’s always making sexual jokes in the office? What a hypocrite. Oh, wait, that was different? How so? Pfffft!
The Sutton tried telling The Potato that it was all his fault and I wasn’t to blame, but he just yelled at The Sutton to shut up, turned back to me, and kept on yelling and yelling and yelling. The whole office heard and all was quiet. I was quite angry myself. Wanted to smack him in the face. Why only blame me? Why not blame The Sutton and I equally? I’m telling you, it’s the whole I-Hate-You-Coz-You-Took-My-Sutton-Away-From-Me scenario. He just needed a valid reason to hate me.
It was The Big Potato Blow Out. Very messy. Although, doesn’t it make you think about potatoes and barbeques? Mmmm… Yummy :) Hehehe.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
The World's Best and Worst Lovers
World's Best and Worst Lovers... According to the result of a poll which sampled women from 20 different countries...
World's Best Lovers:
1. Spain
2. Brazil
3. Italy
4. France
5. Ireland
6. South Africa
7. Australia
8. New Zealand
9. Denmark
10. Canada
World's Worst Lovers:
1. Germany (too smelly)
2. England (too lazy)
3. Sweden (too quick)
4. Holland (too dominating)
5. America (too rough)
6. Greece (too lovey-dovey)
7. Wales (too selfish)
8. Scotland (too loud)
9. Turkey (too sweaty)
10. Russia (too hairy)
Click HERE to read the full article!
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Today's Lesson
I learned a new word.
Hangry : the state in which someone is cranky or angry because he or she is hungry and has not had food.
Sent via BlackBerry from Maxis
Hangry : the state in which someone is cranky or angry because he or she is hungry and has not had food.
Sent via BlackBerry from Maxis
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Quotable Quotes
“Thanks to my animal behavior classes/research I've done over the years, every time I watch typical rap videos, I think of it as human courtship behavior. Jewelry and expensive cars as honest signal for wealth, and thus ability for male to care for female and young. Ornamented female in courtship dance with big butts signify fertility, and thus quality female. Sexual selection right thurrrrrrrr.”
-La Loca-
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