For a long while, I have always maintained some of the provisions of Malaysia's Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 are gender-biased against men.

It is heartening to know that there is at least now a first of its kind, public forum entitled 'Children Need Fathers' to bring these issues to the fore.

Ironically, it takes women lawyers Chew Swee Yoke and Foo Yet Ngo to highlight them. Where are our men who can't even fight for their own rights? Haven't they seen the film Kramer versus Kramer (starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep)?

As much as we like to see more men being involved in advocacy of equal rights for women and campaigns against violence against women, I hope there'll be more women involved in advocacy and campaigns on rights of men and against financial exploitation by woman...

Men are not just victimised in marriage or breakup of marriage under Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976.

They are very much victimised by the new criminal laws, advocated by our women groups, expanding rape to marital context where there are no sufficient provisions to protect the husband against situation of a vengeful wife determined to destroy him.

Let's not ape the West and their feminists blindly, and bend our laws so backwards in favour of women victims or potential victims that it derogates entirely the traditional safeguard of the presumption of innocence until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt, which is the guarantee for liberty of all free men and women in democratic society.

At the end of the day, it is not a question of protecting men against women, or women against men. This is not the prosecution of a gender war. It is a pursuit for what is rational and fair for fathers, mothers and children - and all men and women - balancing all competing considerations. It is for the cause of equality, fairness and rationality.

One of the major problems the country faces is the affirmative policies. I say we have one too many of such affirmative policies whether in favour of one race or one gender which we should rightly be suspicious about their consequences regardless of their original intentions.

Affirmative policies are twice cursed - they curse equally those who are beneficiaries as those who are discriminated against.