September 18, 2012
Malaysia's Gay as well as Lesbian Blueprint
by Rom Nain@www.malaysiakini.com
On Wednesday, with some fanfare, a much-hyped as well as certainly ambitious new preparation blueprint was unveiled. Quite a bit has so distant been created as well as said about it as well as there will be event here soon sufficient to criticism upon this report.
But, what's some-more divulgence is which a day later, upon Thursday, Sep 13, a Ministry entrusted with making this devise a reality, as well as a successful one during that, a Education Ministry, with pictures to most because this devise will some-more likely end up, as with alternative previous plans, in a dustbin of history.
It was reported initially by a Chinese imitation media as well as after by a integrate of headlines portals that, upon Thursday, a Ministry I'm sure after carrying spent days, even months, with their row of 'experts' came up with 'a list of identifiable gay as well as lesbian traits' for 'schools as well as parents to forestall a drawn out of a phenomenon between teenagers'.
Remember, please remember, which this is reportedly entrance from a Education Ministry. Yes, a same Ministry entrusted with designing a structure as well as curriculum for a preparation of a young kids for some-more than ten years of their flourishing years.
Yes, to belabour a point, a unequivocally same method that's starting to be during a forefront of implementing this 13-year (2012-2025) brand new preparation ! plans th at's ostensible to spin a kids in to world-beaters.
Unless, of course, starting by their ultimate comments, a kids have been gays as well as lesbians. But if they have been or, have a 'potential' to be as well as 'we' have been not sure, thanks to a Ministry, you have been right away armed with a list which helps to 'identify' a symptoms or traits of these two, shall you say, 'naughty' groups.
And if you don't know by now, for gays, their 'muscular bodies', 'v-neck as well as sleeveless clothes', 'tight as well as light-coloured clothing', 'large handbags' have been apparently clear, tell-tale signs.
And lesbians, apparently have been 'attracted to women, similar to to eat, sleep, hang out in a company of alternative women as well as have no love for men'.
Of march it's easy sufficient to rubbish all this stupidity, as most have upon a net, regulating social media.But I'm quite sure just rubbishing isn't sufficient because a irrationality is so deeply entrenched as well as apparently drawn out between these people currently holding a reins of authority, further aggravated by a perfect bigotry of these people.
Indeed, by now, reports of this ultimate hop by a method have drawn out distant as well as far-reaching with, between others, Reuters, commenting on, if not ridiculing, it.
The approach a headlines has drawn out as well as a comments, criticisms as well as wisecracks which it has generated is suggestive of a time in Jan 2010 when Rais Yatim done those rather nonsensical comments about Facebook and Twitter, as well as a charge of objections as well as insults which followed, generally upon Twitter.
Despite all that, however, roughly three year! s on, Ra is is still a Minister, as if unrepentant, as well as still entrance up with some-more such comments.
Refusing to be accountable
The indicate is, despite current as well as drawn out criticisms as well as counter-arguments, oftentimes they have been similar to water off a duck's behind as well as these buffoons just carry on, refusing to be accountable for their difference as well as deeds.
Indeed, there is no shame, no sense of honour as well as integrity.These ultimate assertions have been abandoned of any systematic or healing basis, (mis)informed by a discipline of dual dodgy-sounding outfits, Yayasan Guru Malaysia Bhd as well as Putrajaya Consultative Council of Parents as well as Teachers Associations.
And appallingly as well as shamefully, entrance as they do from a ministry, they indicate which unequivocally little research as well as transparent thinking is taking place in this ministry.
A Ministry which unequivocally should be right up there building as well as compelling preparation policies as well as strategies which will assistance us all to truly assimilate as well as conclude any other.
But instead is spinning loathing against fellow tellurian beings.Some months 
ago, in response to a homophobic attacks against Seksualiti Merdeka, you wrote a commentary in a East Malaysian Borneo Post (Nov 6, 2011). In a light of this ultimate attack as well as a probable aroused stroke this method 'list' may have upon a children, you would similar to to repeat a few lines here.
'Suddenly, all demeanour of accusations have been hurled during this small community, by politicians, eremite groups and, not surprisingly, worried fascists, similar ! to a mem bers of Perkasa.
'All apparently united by their homophobia, their intractable belief which behaviour which is non-heterosexual is not usually 'deviant' but additionally offensive as well as should be condemned.
'This incomparable majority fails or worse, refuses to assimilate which a members of this village often face social, emotional, legal as well as even political problems because of their gender temperament as well as sexual orientation, marked down by a hardliners as "deviant".
'By acting in this high-handed manner, a majority refuses to recognize a unequivocally genuine possibility which it is their unequivocally actions which lead to a isolation, disunion as well as despair faced by this marginalised village of Malaysian brothers as well as sisters.
'They have been so marginalised as well as relatively minute in numbers which you find it inconceivable which they should pose any risk or hazard to a wider Malaysian public.
'All this is, thus, sad as well as doesn't contend much about us as a people. We exaggerate about being a caring society, as stipulated in a challenges of Wawasan 2020, yet do not wish to know about this small community, let alone rivet with them.'
Imagine, then, if you will, young kids being bullied as well as tormented in school by alternative children, their teachers as well as alternative 'officials' simply because foolish 'lists' have been done accessible to these menurut perintah individuals 'identifying' these young kids as carrying particular 'symptoms'.
Think of a infinite harm, physical and, some-more so, mental, which all this stupid, misinformed profiling is starting to means a kids.Yes, a kids.
Education is ostensible to liberate a minds as well as to commission us, to capacitate us to make improvements to a societies, in truth a total world, which you live in.
This ultimate shameful practice by a Ministry has absolut! ely zero to do with education. It has a unequivocally genuine intensity to cultivate some-more misunderstanding, some-more confusion, some-more hatred.
For all that, for all its perfect stupidity, yes, it should be ridiculed, it should be parodied. But some-more than that, for a measureless harm it will means to a kids and, indeed, to all of us, this move, these 'lists', should be condemned.
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