Aware: What do they want?

What do they want?

The truth about Aware’s takeover came out in the papers. JL lied to the press that the takeover was not planned but TSM revealed at a press conference held at Raffles Town Club that she was the “feminist mentor” who has been instigating all these behind the scene all the while. She even claimed to know the founders of Aware, and her reason for stepping in is because she believes that Aware has strayed from its founding principles. However, all these were also debunked by the real founders of Aware, who maintained that TSM was never known as a “feminist mentor” and neither was she known or acquainted to the founders in any way.

Lying through their teeth surely makes them lose a lot of public favour. Even for those who don’t have a stand in this matter, who’re just merely sitting on the fence and watching the fight all along, could very much swing over to the old guards’ side. Just why, why did they lie so openly? Were they too stupid to think of the consequences, or is there a greater agenda behind the lies?

I would say, the women we’re dealing with here are not stupid. They may be blinded by their fundamentalist interpretation of the holy book but they are not stupid. They all hail from high society, with doctorates and high corporate positions and all, and are definitely capable of planning a simple battle like this. So I believe all these, what seem to be careless public faux pas, are also part of their orchestration to achieve what they really want.

But just what do they really want? I don’t know for sure. But it’s likely that they’ve decided that they don’t even need the support from the moderate public. If you look at the public as a spectrum stretching from the highly conservative to the highly liberal, I suspect they are trying to recruit the highly conservative through this. The conservatives are always at a more advantageous position in policy decision. When deciding on policies, the government only bothers to look at how conservative the general public is, without caring too much about the liberals because the liberals are expected to be able to adapt. The repeal 377a saga showed that the collective power of the conservatives is strong – so strong that our PM and MM can only talk about their beliefs on why 377a should go, but still nothing can be done about it because “we’re still a largely conservative society”.

Rationally thinking, with most of the decision makers in the new Aware attending the same church, and having replaced the center manager with someone who also attends that church, it is tempting to think that Aware is turning into a subsidiary of COOS. But what’s the deal? There is a huge implication on society in general for COOS to wield so much power in an organisation as influential as Aware. For those who don’t know about COOS’ stand on issues as basic as “family”, feel free to click on the link to take a look. They have a very misogynistic view on family. They believe that the man is the head of the family and a wife should be subordinate to her husband just as her husband is subordinate to god. And they define the head of every woman as her man. How feminist can someone who believes in this be? How fit would such beliefs guide the operations of an organisation which supports women’s rights?

What I believe is that they intend to shape Singapore into their biblical society, as a pastor from COOS once said, he wants “a nation of righteous Christians”. Apparently, COOS’ agenda is clear. They want to take over this nation and merge their religion with our politics. This is dangerous, but they have already taken the first step with Aware, to brainwash whoever they can touch and transform the layman’s belief system into their misogynistic interpretation of “family”. This, they believe is in accordance to their god and thus, good. And this, they also believe is the essence of “pro-women, pro-family and pro-Singapore”.

From this, it seems easy to understand why they chose to err so publicly. They don’t need support from the moderates. Neither do they need support from the liberals. They only need the conservatives. They have a trump card in hand – homosexuality. Every conservative person is against homosexuality. By maligning the old Aware to have been pro-homosexuality, they are gathering a lot of empathy from the conservatives. If nothing more, the conservatives want one thing to be done – to get formal mention of “homosexuality” out of the classroom so that their offspring will not be led into thinking that being gay or lesbian is okay. That is their wish and the new Aware will be more than willing to help them achieve this dream.

So I wish for my message to go out to all the atheists or non-Christians out there who want Singapore to stay secular. Join in the fight to reverse this takeover before COOS takes over all other civil societies one by one until they have full control over our social structure and public beliefs. We need secularity, and the first battle against our secularity has already begun with the ascension of the COOS members into Aware’s Exco.

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