Keyhole Sexual Politics
Those who are immoral and should be condemned would be the man that videotaped her, as well as the manipulator behind the scene. They are really dirty, filthy, shameful, despicable and scurrilous!
By LIM MUN FAH/ Translated by SOONG PHUI JEE/ Sin Chew Daily
If it is a political conspiracy, I can only say that our politics has completely degenerated to a keyhole sexual politics, leaving only cheating, intrigues, unscrupulousness and utterly shamelessness.
Elizabeth Wong was not having a clandestine love affair or being caught in bed. She did not do anything that shattered the earth either. She just fell asleep, dishevelled. Her sleeping position was indecent indeed, but she was at her home, she was free to have any sleeping position, so what does it matter to us?
It is terrible that her privacy was invaded and her nude pictures were widely spread.
| "Wong is definitely a victim. It is unfair to ask her to step down, which would only worsen her misery." |
You may say that she is too careless, or even criticise that her act is contrary to the secular etiquette, but you cannot say she is immoral or has done something wrong to the voters.
Those who are immoral and should be condemned would be the man that videotaped her, as well as the manipulator behind the scene. They are really dirty, filthy, shameful, despicable and scurrilous!
Wong is definitely a victim. It is unfair to ask her to step down, which would only worsen her misery.
Perhaps, her naivete should be blamed. In the face of love, she has completely lost her alert as a politician. She devoted without reservation or precaution.
Perhaps, it is a woman's nature, the biggest weakness for women.
She has forgotten that the danger of love usually lies beneath the romantic affair and the disaster is actually approaching the time one is intoxicated with love.
She has forgotten that our society is still a patriarchal society. It is difficult to be a woman, it is more difficult to be a career woman and it is much more difficult to be a woman politician. France can accept an unmarried mother as a minister, but Malaysia can only accept completely holy women as female Exco.
As one of the very few woman politicians in the country, she should be respected and admired. But today, her image has been damaged. She has to face the strange gaze of the public, whose peeping desires have been satisfied and even worse, to be ridiculed, defamed and laughed by her political opponents.
Sadly, our society seems to have indulged in peeping at sex affairs. The public chuckle with their collective pleasure of peeping and are actually proud of it. Values in our society have been confused and right and wrong have as well been reversed!
