Works perfectly on paper, but not, practically, not when these “theories” are put into, “practice”, and we are still, WAY behind in gender equality here, not just in this country, but globally! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Of late, all the forums online, or the open-to-public student council elections, they’d all been, filled with the sexist propaganda against women. And, the sexual harassment cases that’s come out of the DDP’s gender equality headquarters, the youth department, the organizational department, or the sexual harassment cases from the Kaohsiung City government offices, had strengthened the sexist beliefs. But, is this, the hit back against feminism, or is it the women’s rights movement gone missing entirely? This is worth contemplating.
The rise of women’s rights should be based off of feminism, to counteract the masculine, to propose an opposite belief system. And yet, as we examined these incidents more closely, the behaviors, the speech, it’s as if we’d, gotten back to the pre-feminism era, there’s NO traces of women’s rights to be, found.
Putting aside everything else, the Women’s Department, is no doubt, the result of women’s rights movement; and, it’d also, showed how the DDP is determined, to seek gender equality for all women, at the same time, it’d opened up the space and the power status of women in politics as well, it has a symbolic, as well as a practical meaning to it. and yet, as the victims filed the complaints on the sexual harassments of the workplace to the managers of the Women’s Department, the manager who had the legal responsibilities to set the wrong behaviors right, to make up for what the employees had done, reminded the woman, to hush up, to keep her own (the victim’s) reputation unharmed, and at the same time, the manager also tried finding out if the victim had “spread the rumors of her manager around”. The department to increase the rights of women, became a dangerous work environment for the women; and, after the fact, the manager got a promotion, to the assistant secretary of the party! What had, happened to, women’s rights here, in Taiwan?
Since the start up of the Women’s Right’s Association by the Legislative Department back in 1997, in close to thirty years, the government is the most aggressive in pushing forth the values of gender equality globally; from the central to the local governments, there were the gender equality task forces set up, setting up the rules of work, the scheduled meetings, the filing of the papers to report back the results. It’s just, that in the policies, the seminars, there were, almost NO signs of women’s rights movement in basis: the feminism, women’s right. The employees had endless forms to fill out, and yet, the goals of the policies were, too, ambiguous.
Started in 2012, to get the leadership status of rights for women advocates in all of Asia, the Women’s Rights Committees changed their names to “Gender Equality Commissions”. Under the leads of minorities of “Gender Experts”, there’s the “multifaceted gender orientation”, the term, coined, it’d become, the undoubted core of workplace equality for men and women; and yet, due to the definitions being split up, and hard to understand, in implementing the rules of gender equality, it’d become, quite, difficult. The contents of the policies were, too vast, and it’d given the people in power, to interpret at their own will, uncontrolled; the highly-pressured politically correctness, added more stress of those without power getting exploited, which was what led to these, cases.
Without the feminism’s “mainstreaming ideal of gender”, with the massive structures, the complex tools, but lacking the sense of direction toward the debatable subjects, it’s only in formality. The not paying heed to the gender equality means of feminism, only helps the minorities who are in power to participate in this game of power struggle, to get higher up in the positions, but it’d not necessarily, taken away the obstacles for women to work, to survive in the, workforce. What the current women’s rights movement should focus on, it’s not to become popular in the mainstream communities, but, to understand what feminism is truly about, its ideals, to change the mainstream beliefs of women being, lesser than, men.
So this is how the DDP had, totally, MISSED that B-O-A-T, on the purpose of the gender equality commissions, yeah sure, this shit’s been set up, but, does it reduce the prevalence of women being, sexually harassed, in the workplaces, hell no, and so, this only works well in theory, but not in application, because the DDP only cared about the external appearances of things, and yet, from the outside looking in, this country has one of the most advanced laws set to protect women from being, victimized, but, when put into practice, it is totally, ineffective, just see how many cases of sexual harassment, sexual assault is coming out in this country right now, and, that’s primarily due to how we women are, coming out of the dark, realizing, that hey, we do NOT have to take this SHIT, it has, NOTHING to do with these laws that the government sets up, supposedly to “protect” us all, from getting sexually molested, sexually assaulted.
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