The sHoRtZ goes digital
... because I can't stand NOT writing my column lah!
So I guess I'll have to fight it out with the countless opinions already existing on the 'Net. What to do... when push comes to shove I guess.
What's ironic is that the week after half of Sunday Mail's writers (and some of the best damn issues writers around, I'd like to add) said their goodbyes -- our MPs come up with the juiciest fodder it was just too hard to pass up NOT putting editorial crosshairs right over their foreheads.
I mean, look at the whole gatal issue. It's interesting how people didn't really play up the "who's REALLY gatal" thing. Sure, he's being mysoginist, prejudiced, judgemental, neanderthal even.
But come on, let's just be as childish as that MP lah. He's not going to understand these big words, so we need to sink back to the longkang to his level. Just say it like it is lah!
"Sapa yang betul-betul gatal, hah?"
a) A divorcee that isn't in total absolute mourning because she's divorced (what the hell are they supposed to do lah, sit at home for the rest of their lives, shrouded in black hijabs, weeping for the loss of the man in their lives? Is post-divorce socializing an indication of abject wanton uncontrollable lust... or a need to be among other people to help ease the loneliness of being alone?)...
OR
b) A man who's already married but still can menggatal (now THAT's the more apt use of that damn word) with the chick from the nasi lemak stall, the perfume counter, the shoe store, the restaurant, the bar, the dangdut club.... the guy who's got wife and kids and still looking for numbers 2, 3, and 4? A guy who jokes with his friends about getting upgraded versions of wives because the "old cow" at home has gained weight and isn't doing anything for his Viagra-loaded libido (although no one mentions that his receding hairline and potbelly isn't really ManHunt audition material, I'll tell you that much). Or the old farts hanging out at Kelab Pantai and Duabelas SI (among others) flashing the cash so they can live the delusion that some bimbo half their age actually is attracted to them (as long as the wallets stay fat).
Come to think of it, maybe the divorcees are divorcees because their husbands left them for some young nubile child (which really isn't the reason why that archaic 4-wive rule was there in the first place, moron). I say, good riddance, and good luck finding a man who's not going to think of you as one quarter of his little four-woman harem.
Siapa yang gatal? Hah?
On top of that his statement that he wouldn't be surprised if a majority of the sex workers in the country consist of divorcees.
Maybe he never really read a piece of research in his life, poor thing. Maybe he's never really done any indepth thinking on his own, poor child. Maybe he needs to be schooled. Please, oh NGOs, do you think you can send him some research? Maybe put in some audio tapes and video files because you can't sustain his reading past a few paragraphs. And maybe include some tabs on the words that have more than two syllables to help the little dude understand what's going on.
Because it's clear he's lacking some serious education. Not just in social issues but in being a decent human being.
And I'm SOOOOO happy that I've gone digital and I can say a lot more without having to worry about being (sic) politically correct. HAH!
7:09 PM
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