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I refer to the Dr Azly Rahman's letter Embrace 'kampong-ism' not 'feminism' .

Allow me to echo a fellow reader's mail: 'Who is this guy?'. Well, whoever he is, he has the audacity to call people, excuse me, women who dare to air their opinions as 'theoretically shallow' and what we write about an 'embarrassment' as we cannot mount philosophical propositions. And then he goes one step further by proposing to us to go back to kampungs and lead the kampung life.

You know, if anybody is confused and emotional here, it can only be you, sir. You seem to view the rising awareness and the struggle for balance by women as a threat. You seem to live in some far away place where life is ideal and man and woman live in a win-win situation where men are the traditional breadwinners, 'feminism' an alien notion, etc. And you reiterate your argument that this Malaysian feminism is an upper-class concept which is out of touch with the kampung folks, for example.

Dr Azly, for your information, I have set foot and worked in some of the poorest districts in both West and East Malaysia. And for your information too, the kampung girls, as you call them, are not only aware of what Malaysian women face but they, too, are vocal in their own way. Maybe it's because they live through it everyday?

We women live, experience and survive daily in our capacity as daughters, mothers, workers, wives, kampung girls, 'Minah Karans', Muslims, Christians, Malays, Indians, Ibans, Kadazans, etc. So yes, even if we are not able to grasp the fundamentals of chaos and critical theory, we still know what we are talking about.

And I invite you sir, to come live in the real world.

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