I'm proud to be part of the statistics that trouble the Government so. Being young, single and female, and a graduate to boot, is always, in Singapore, as far as I remember, very wrong.
I hate being discriminated. Everyday, I see compaigns and news reports harping on the same themes and I just want to tell those generating the very blatant agenda of procreating to go and die. Romancing Singapore, kiss my ass. You just want my intelligent eggs to meet some good sperm to produce super Singaporean babies. And those who want us, the young, single and female graduates to be penalised and punished accordingly for remaining in our current state and maintaining status quo, shld be blinded by having 20 eyelashes falling into each eye at the same time before they drop dead.
Just read this from a Mr Robert Oei. A few choice quotes will do:
I believe that the core reason for the declining fertility rate lies in the priorities and values embraced by our young, educated and liberated women of today.
Nowadays, it is the woman and only the woman who decides when to have a family and how large it should be.
The women should give more thought to the country's long-term survival before the Government comes out with the stick in the form of disincentives or penalties.
For example, higher CPF contributions, or even an infertility tax, should be levied on them.
Like a donkey that refuses to budge in spite of all the carrots, what else but the stick can make it yield?
Reading it makes me fume. That Singapore still has such obscene silliness and extreme patriarchal manifestations. And this is just a sample of the nonsense filling up the papers these days. There are lots floating around, including contributions from male MPs and Hsien Loong himself. It's mostly silliness I'd like to ignore, but it scares me silly too to think these people may actually mean and believe in their own rubbish, instead of just saying it because they have to.
Some points:
Do I care whether Singapore survive as a nation so much that I would want to have 10 children to add on to its dwindling human resources? No, I don't. Does that make me a horrid person? Maybe only analytically immoral at most, since the state may die out but hey, that's the price any country claiming to be a democracy has to pay. Unless you are not a democracy, you gotta respect free will and choice, Singapore. You claim that you are democratic, so there you go, simple logic - You shld not pull the guilt-trip (which is totally useless, I assure you and just irritates the hell out of the very people you need eggs from) and tell us (henceforth us refers to young, single, female graduates) to service the nation. We refuse. There.
I think the real issue here is femalesness, the particular state of being female. Why doesn't the Government and media criticise gay and straight men for not finding a female companion? Why does the stupid spotlight always turn on us? Easy. The state itself is patriarchal and the law of binary opposites works such that a term is always valorised and the other denigrated. There is never equal value. So males win and females are blamed for everything bad and wrong. So go the various assumptions in dwindling babies: us refusing to procreate, too choosy, too career-minded. Nobody breathes a word about impotent men (there are lots more of them than infertile women), gays, men who are non-commital, ugly, disgusting, stupid etc etc who can't match us. They. Don't. Deserve. Me. Us. My Sisters.
Incidentally, the Government shld have foreseen this. Obviously, the more well-educated you are, the more you wld be calculative and expecting (not in that way of course) of a particular way of life and the kind of environment you want to bring up a child in. Surely it din think we wld blindly give birth? Or marry? Or whatsoever just to protect the state's interest? Thank you for subsidising my education, Singapore, but like the price you have to pay for democracy, by educating people, it's also inevitable that educated people, especially us, wld turn round to question ur gender-biased policies and refusing to back off from what is an unreasonable and absurd patriarchal imposition.
The thing is, I can't believe all the non-sequiturs those in authority use to persuade people to have babies. At least one talked at length in Chinese values and traditions, and sprouted 不孝有三，无后为大.
Like hello,
(1) We are not a Chinese society. We are multi-racial okay.
(2) And you dare speak of Chinese values and traditions? Din Singapore like just very recently relax its stance on uni requirement; Chinese is more or less made officially redundant and second-class, in addition to the language being increasingly pared down and simplified? You din even try to teach Chinese properly and you expect us to buy into your sudden admission of good old Chinese-ness?
I would like to rant more but getting sleepy.
Fuck me not for my eggs, please. Fuck you for seeing only the eggs.
I hate being discriminated. Everyday, I see compaigns and news reports harping on the same themes and I just want to tell those generating the very blatant agenda of procreating to go and die. Romancing Singapore, kiss my ass. You just want my intelligent eggs to meet some good sperm to produce super Singaporean babies. And those who want us, the young, single and female graduates to be penalised and punished accordingly for remaining in our current state and maintaining status quo, shld be blinded by having 20 eyelashes falling into each eye at the same time before they drop dead.
Just read this from a Mr Robert Oei. A few choice quotes will do:
I believe that the core reason for the declining fertility rate lies in the priorities and values embraced by our young, educated and liberated women of today.
Nowadays, it is the woman and only the woman who decides when to have a family and how large it should be.
The women should give more thought to the country's long-term survival before the Government comes out with the stick in the form of disincentives or penalties.
For example, higher CPF contributions, or even an infertility tax, should be levied on them.
Like a donkey that refuses to budge in spite of all the carrots, what else but the stick can make it yield?
Reading it makes me fume. That Singapore still has such obscene silliness and extreme patriarchal manifestations. And this is just a sample of the nonsense filling up the papers these days. There are lots floating around, including contributions from male MPs and Hsien Loong himself. It's mostly silliness I'd like to ignore, but it scares me silly too to think these people may actually mean and believe in their own rubbish, instead of just saying it because they have to.
Some points:
Do I care whether Singapore survive as a nation so much that I would want to have 10 children to add on to its dwindling human resources? No, I don't. Does that make me a horrid person? Maybe only analytically immoral at most, since the state may die out but hey, that's the price any country claiming to be a democracy has to pay. Unless you are not a democracy, you gotta respect free will and choice, Singapore. You claim that you are democratic, so there you go, simple logic - You shld not pull the guilt-trip (which is totally useless, I assure you and just irritates the hell out of the very people you need eggs from) and tell us (henceforth us refers to young, single, female graduates) to service the nation. We refuse. There.
I think the real issue here is femalesness, the particular state of being female. Why doesn't the Government and media criticise gay and straight men for not finding a female companion? Why does the stupid spotlight always turn on us? Easy. The state itself is patriarchal and the law of binary opposites works such that a term is always valorised and the other denigrated. There is never equal value. So males win and females are blamed for everything bad and wrong. So go the various assumptions in dwindling babies: us refusing to procreate, too choosy, too career-minded. Nobody breathes a word about impotent men (there are lots more of them than infertile women), gays, men who are non-commital, ugly, disgusting, stupid etc etc who can't match us. They. Don't. Deserve. Me. Us. My Sisters.
Incidentally, the Government shld have foreseen this. Obviously, the more well-educated you are, the more you wld be calculative and expecting (not in that way of course) of a particular way of life and the kind of environment you want to bring up a child in. Surely it din think we wld blindly give birth? Or marry? Or whatsoever just to protect the state's interest? Thank you for subsidising my education, Singapore, but like the price you have to pay for democracy, by educating people, it's also inevitable that educated people, especially us, wld turn round to question ur gender-biased policies and refusing to back off from what is an unreasonable and absurd patriarchal imposition.
The thing is, I can't believe all the non-sequiturs those in authority use to persuade people to have babies. At least one talked at length in Chinese values and traditions, and sprouted 不孝有三，无后为大.
Like hello,
(1) We are not a Chinese society. We are multi-racial okay.
(2) And you dare speak of Chinese values and traditions? Din Singapore like just very recently relax its stance on uni requirement; Chinese is more or less made officially redundant and second-class, in addition to the language being increasingly pared down and simplified? You din even try to teach Chinese properly and you expect us to buy into your sudden admission of good old Chinese-ness?
I would like to rant more but getting sleepy.
Fuck me not for my eggs, please. Fuck you for seeing only the eggs.
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