The recent spate between the old guard of AWARE and the newly elected executive committee of the Women's association is the latest of saga's to have hit Singapore mainstream media. The wild accusations, media frenzy and badly organized press interviews do in someway provide relief to the my rather exhausted-cramming-for-examinations-undergraduate mind. Call me apathetic but I believe that if everybody just minds their own bloody business and go about on their own merry way, the world would be a much better place.
I did browse through some of the articles online and I must add (to the already bustling furry of responses) that we, as the general public, really don't know much about what the heck is going on in the first place. I am pretty confident that a good number of the people chastising both the old and new executive committees don't even know what AWARE does in the first place. I'd say we all just take a step back (if we have the damn time...) and take a good look at all the facts before us and the events, both before and after the election, before deciding which side of the fence we should (want) to stand on.
The new exco has garnered a lot of bad press as of late with regards to their proposed direction and vision for the women's right civil organization. Personally, I don't really like what I read about the new exco and their rather zealous, holier-than-thou, quasi-religious personas. It seems that they might have bitten off more than they could chew and have throughly underestimated the resistance of modern-day civil society. The media seems to be having a field day too, as online articles, press releases and media coverage rip to shreds whatever cover story they might have in their search for that elusive "real" story. I did manage to catch a Channel News Asia interview with the incumbent president and one of her side-kicks and I must add that they did not really do a decent job in convincing those watching of their rationale behind the "pseudo-leadership-coup".
The AWARE saga is still ongoing and I doubt it's going to end anytime soon. To deviate a bit from reality, this whole episode is starting to really closely resemble the "Secret Invasion" story-line :) Anyway... what concerns me most for now is this coming Monday's Calculus Paper... its back to the books for me!
