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I edited my book, From China to Borneo to Beyond and added a chapter on Women Pioneers.
In God’s original law, ‘And they twain shall
be one flesh: so that they are no more twain but one flesh. What therefore God
hath joined together, let not man put asunder.’ `Mark 10:8, 9 KJV
For better or worse, till sickness do us
part, this is the basic foundation of a Christian marriage.
It was in 1975 when I was a student in
Windsor University in Canada. I joined other students in condemning beauty
contests that were a front for the meat market. We chose Helen Reddy’s ‘I am
woman, hear me roar’ to be our theme song.
In 1979, I was with a group of Asian women
students in Auckland University. We discussed the 三 從 四 德. The three obedience of a woman: ‘obey her
father before marriage, her husband when married, and her sons in widowhood’
and the four virtues: morality, proper speech, modest manner and diligent work
of women in ancient China; spiritual fetters of wifely submission and virtue
imposed on women in feudal society （古 代 中 国 妇 女 应 有 的 品 德。三 从 是 未 嫁 从 父、既 嫁 从 夫、夫 死 从 子, 四 德 是 妇 德、妇 言、妇 容、妇 功 (妇 女 的 品 德、辞 令、仪 态、女 工).
According to Chinese legend, Zi Gu 紫姑 is the God
of toilet. She was an oppressed woman
and physically abused and killed by a vengeful Wife in a toilet. The Heavenly
God had compassion for her. He made her the God of toilet. She represents all the females who groan under
the oppression in the feudal society. So women worship her and regard her as
the guardian angel of weak females.
A seventy something Chinese woman told me, the day
she got married, she became a slave to the family, her mother-in-law, her
husband and the rest of her husband’s family.
While pioneered women were oppressed, women
today despite, women’s liberations movement, continue to be oppressed.
In my book Mail Order Bride, I went to places
where few would go, I wrote about embodiment of many issues of the darker side
of today’s society: under-aged sex, prostitution, and paedophilia.
Some readers found the book very awakening
and down to earth. They said I was very brave in tackling these topics.
In this book, CRY of Oppressed Women, I write
various forms of oppression. I show the true me. I am a radical feminist
activist. I am active in environmental issues, in Sands for grieving parents,
Charity for Kenya and so on. In writing this book, I give a voice to women
belittled, violated, oppressed and battered by men. I conclude with strong
words. Pornography degrades women. It is banal, inane and downright disgusting.
I HATE pornography!! I hate all degradation of women in any form. I abhor the
exploitation of young girls and older women at the hands of manipulative men. I
appal sexualisation of little girls, including padded frilly swimwear. I am
disgusted at what it does to the girls’ mind making them become anorexic and
bulimic.
This is a work of fiction with very real
scenarios. It is a figment of imagination of the author. Any resemblance of
persons is purely coincidental. While these scenarios are fictitious, the
reader will notice that some of them are familiar. This is because I use ideas
from the newspapers, television news. I use them as my theme for each story and
added on to it.
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