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"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men." - Joseph Conrad

COMMENT Prime Minister Najib Razak believes that men are an endangered species because of the "success" of women in Malaysia. He also believes that Malaysian women are "different" from the rest of the women on Earth.

He didn't say how they were different just alluded to ‘his' fact that this difference was based on his premise that ‘they' were better off in terms of equality than their sisters in the rest of the world.

I find it funny that Perkasa's big cheese Ibrahim Ali is on the endangered species list. So, it's not the non-Malays, who are a threat to his survival, it is women. How queer.

If I was a woman, I'd be pretty concerned that the women, family and community development minister, who happens to be a man and apparently the most powerful one in Malaysia (or should I say Peninsular Malaysia, since Abdul Taib Mahmud, is still lurking about in Sarawak) thinks that Malaysia has no need of a women's movement...

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