Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Women suffers disproportionately from natural disasters???

According to an article by Agence France-Presse, a report was issued by the leading international feminist organizations, called the Global Fund for Women.
Of course in the eyes of gender feminists, it is women who suffer disproportionately by anything, anytime, on whatever occasions. If there was a war, it’s women who suffer. If there was economic depression, it’s women who suffer. If the Yankees couldn’t win the World Series, it’s women who suffer. And if mother nature strikes, it’s women who suffer. Too bad the mother nature, despite its gender (mother), according to feminists, also discriminates against women.
Implicit in the claims that it is discrimination because more women died than men for instance in the wake of earthquake in India/Pakistan is that more men should die. The goal of any disaster relief or disaster preparation should be to minimize the casualties and damages of all people and properties, including both men and women, boys and girls, not about fretting about reducing the ratio of women and girls ( or increasing the ration of men and boys) who is afflicted by the nature’s wrath. Their implicit assumption is so obnoxious but they have no qualm putting forth this kind of statement. Frankly, I don’t know when these feminists will be happy, when more men die of natural disasters than women or is their ultimate goal a time when only men die of natural disasters?
Also we can spot a tendency by gender feminists to exploit such huge events as Asia Tsunami or Katrina; with all the eyes and ears of the world are turned to the plight of disasters, it is a perfect PR time for these feminists to claim discrimination and further their social engineering schemes through redistribution of power and money. In fact, any natural disasters or conflict or war or social turmoil is an opportune time for these people to exploit the situation and further their causes. Wherever they see trouble in the world, they will send a team of “experts”, conduct their own skewed and biased agenda-driven research and study, and come up with a series of their cookie-cutter recommendations whose aim is to restructure the society in their desired manner.
The pictures and stories of women who were affected by natural disasters are indeed gripping. It fits our common image of women as a weaker and fairer sex and appeals to our chauvinistic to help them out with priority. Gender feminists, whose basic ideological assumption is that there is absolutely no difference between men and women and all the difference are “socially constructed” by patriarchal society, have no qualm about exploiting the image of weaker women when it fits their purpose and flip to stronger women image when grabbing for political and economic power in the post-disaster reconstruction stage.

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