Stop Undermining Women and Feminists, Isma

Here's an example of a failure in critical thinking:

Person A brings up a sound logical argument proving there is a bias. Person B retorts by giving examples of non-bias situations instead of engaging with the logical argument - the existence of examples proves that the converse is true. In actual fact, the examples of non-bias does not refute the evidence and many more examples of bias.

Just because a Malay Muslim woman working on an offshore oil platform experiences career success and personal satisfaction (http://www.ismaweb.net/…/offshore-engineer-majority-of-wor…/) does not mean that all women now get equal pay or career opportunities across all sectors. Just because Meryl Streep is paid higher than any other actresses in the world does not mean that all actresses are given equal salaries to their male counterparts in a film production.

The failure to recognise this non-dichotomy might be stemmed from an inflexible mind - to hold something as absolute with no room of discussion or questioning on the point. In other words, they simply do not tolerate any other alternative views. Those women in Isma may very well accept their pre-ordained social position as secondary to their husbands, but they don't speak for all other women who feel maligned by the fact that they NEED TO BE TOLD by MEN that their priority is to be with family at home, and that this is what god intended.

I'm aware that I'm not a woman. I don't have to be a woman to be a feminist. Isma's examples of a few working mothers don't erase the fact that there is gender inequality in this country with deep cultural and religious attachments.

So please excuse us for getting ticked off by the 'homemaker' statement (http://www.themalaymailonline.com/…/isma-feminism-making-wo…) because we are all keenly aware of what is inferred by a representative of the old Malay Muslim male majority. (Gives you a version of 'old white men in America'.) Downplay all you want by shifting the discourse on women's rights to media misrepresentation of your statement, but there is no distortion of the fact that Isma still holds women in lesser position than men in our society. The politics of Isma makes me sick just as much as their abhorrent views.