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I refer to the letter Embrace 'kampung-ism', not feminism by Dr Azly Rahman .

Feminism, semantics aside, is not about religion, family laws, anyone's kampung values, protecting people or economic interests - it's about humanity and that's all.

Azly as a male (I am presuming at least from his somewhat chauvinistic rhetoric) would see things differently and yes, females may see things differently too.

But ultimately, going to the baseline, human beings would all prefer to have a choice of what we want to do, who we want to be without condescending or patronising behaviour at the bare minimum and at worst, legal restrictions.

All this within the context of not harming anyone else in the venture, of course. It's not about Western, Islamic or Christian or extremist motives - it's just fundamental humanity.

And the only reason why feminism came about is because of people like Azly (in earlier times circa the Middle Ages) managed the bring the whole system to a boiling point with absolutely brilliant societal theories on 'kampong-ism'.

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