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As far as I recall, the maid never talked throughout the saga. If she said she consented, she would have been shipped off. If she said he had imposed on her, she would likely never have been employed here by any family with all the doubts about her behaviour clinging to her. And what if he had...

Yes, I appreciate the need for an opposition to absolute power. That's why I think it's essential in Singapore to vote opposition whenever one gets the chance, no matter if they put up a star PAP performer against a low grade opposition politician. But while I may vote for an inept opposition...

I don't see Siew going into opposition politics. My own reading of him is that he appreciates what PAP has done in providing a functioning economy, but sees a role for himself in supplementing it, in including what it has left out. After his stint as NMP, I reckon he will joint a human rights...

You should go back to ancient days, and take your Leviticus with you. You'll be safe and sound there, and we won't need to be subjected to your most perverse normality.

Who are you to comment on whether AWARE started off with a brilliant agenda , and whether this has gone downhill, whether they have lost focus? Firstly, AWARE women have much better brainpower than you--they do not lose focus easily. If they do something, they have a reason for doing it. A...

Well, these days, principals, VPs, senior teachers and middle-management journalists get paid better than academics. Plus, there's no job security. Tenure is hard to get, and even when you get it, guarantees nothing. Ageism is here in a big way in academia. I'm not talking of them getting rid of...

Scroobal, Academia is in the shit house. With the whole autonomy business, they now don't care about anything but money. The fixation on the bottomline is very myopic and is going to seriously harm intellectual and social development. Already, you can feel the ground move and damage being...

I hope you're right. Siew Kum Hong is driven by principle--there's no ego here, no quest for self-advancement, etc. I would be really upset if he didn't get a second term. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if the church fundies are applying pressure against the re-appointment. You should have...

You hanging out with fundie Christian women?!!!

Ha, tell me about Alan being tenacious! I could never figure out how someone could be so stubborn and gentle at the same time! He has grown a lot since his early days. I think he would be a good editor. He goes with the flow so I don't see him as politically challenging. But he is a newspaper...

Race-wise, Cherian won't do. Ed-in-chief is Indian, so they can't have ST editor also as Indian. Otherwise, I would have suggested Alan John, who, I think is immediately below Han. Also, Cherian has been out of the game too long. You can't quit journalism and then hope to be parachuted back...

As the Marxist critic Louis Althusser said, the family is one of the ideological state apparatuses. (Education system is another.) Nothing quite like a strong family institution (with all the hierarchy and fixed gender roles) to bring society in line, to provide constraints to people's...

Really? I generally find straight women to be quite unperturbed or just generally curious at being told another woman is gay. I came from a girls' school where there were the usual teenage lesbian relationships, but nobody really minded.

Super heart-stopping recipe! Would be nice to be still alive to tell others about your chowder experience. But for anyone actually wanting to risk their health with this recipe, DO NOT stir flour directly into the soup. Dissolve it in some cold water or milk and add this slowly into the pot...

One of the advantages of being a woman is that patriarchal society doesn't care much about us. So, for the most part, women have more space, especially within modernity, to be whoever they want to be. Unless patriarchal women like the Thios or abusive husbands/fathers/brothers (harbingers from...

I am nauseated by Eleanor Tee!

Have to go with Scroobal on this. Nothing irks journalists more than someone giving them the run around. Actually, this was the first time that SPH had given such coverage to the old guard. The fact that people hardly knew a thing about AWARE before this saga is due to ST always having given...

Not too much to decipher. Just likes to be contrary--feels more secure of her opinion that way. Everyone's saying no, alright I'll say yes--and vice versa.

Above Zuraidah? No way. Too far down in the pecking order.

Unlike straight men, straight women don't generally get ballistic about homosexuality.We just find it intriguing and maybe weird, and feel sorry for the person. Have you ever heard a woman being intense on the subject of homosexuality? There's a personal angle here somewhere.