YOURSAY | ‘What sort of man are you? What sort of leader are you? On both counts, you rate extremely low.’

‘Men protection' law: PKR senator apologises, retracts proposal

Love Malaysia 2: The fact that PKR senator Mohd Imran Abd Hamid doesn’t understand why his proposal for an ‘anti-seduction law’ would cause offence is telling.

This man has no business holding the position of senator. He should be told to step down and go to a course on gender equality and 21st-century thinking as he is stuck in the Middle Ages.

Anonymous_1371602591: We can accept his apology, but we cannot and should not accept such incompetent people to be represented in both of our houses of Parliament.

It will cause more harm than good.

La Komentar: He didn't apologise for making a mistake. He said he meant it, but others saw it as a mistake, so he apologised.

How can that be acceptable?

Newday: Senator, your intentions were “sincere”? You really need to contemplate what your intentions mean before you mouth off.

You are a retired first admiral. You must have seen many places outside of Malaysia. In theory you are a man of the world with a brain, otherwise how would you ever become an admiral?

Yet, you demean women by portraying them as something to be fearful and not to be trusted. You demean men also by intimating that we are so weak that we are persuaded through by looking at how a woman dresses to commit heinous crimes against them and children (including incest).

What sort of man are you? What sort of leader are you? On both counts, you rate extremely low.

Frankie: Do not just apologise. Please resign for you are deemed to be unable to understand that your suggestion indicates that you have turned the victims into villains.

And you still have the audacity to claimed that your proposal is sincere.

Anonymous 1595491436431853: If your brain can only think of this sort of proposals, then please resign immediately. We don’t think you are fit to be a senator.

Please give the seat to another more capable PKR member.

Anonymous_3fe1: Sixty years of a disastrous education system has led us to bigotry and brainless leaders. Imran is an embarrassment to all Malaysians.

Unfortunately, quite a few are of the same ilk. They think that women should be covered up to prevent men from lust.

After senator's 'seduction' gaffe, DPM moots gender sensitivity training

Newday: Deputy Prime Minister Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail’s proposal for gender sensitivity training for lawmakers is a good idea that has some merit. Please make sure that this is carried out as a stop-gap measure.

But until you first fundamentally change the way religion is taught, nothing will really change and women will still be demonised and raped with some impunity by those men that have no control over their friend – the one-eyed trouser snake.

By continuing with this narrow interpretation of Islam, it will lead to multiple generations of boys and men treating women as second-class beings and as a something to be despised and loathed as this senator obviously does.

Kural: This proposal could be viewed as a manner of soft-peddling or refresher and retraining policy initiatives and as amusing, if unnecessary, when the default probably has a deeper set of causal factors.

Consider how much retraining and refresher courses would be required if one considers that this is a senator with a reputed long career elsewhere.

Something seems amiss. Perhaps there is a glaring vacuum in the social psychology of education and socialisation of various communities.

PKR president Anwar Ibrahim was central to some of the ideas and policy interventions infused into and adopted into our education system for some 30 years now. Perhaps he knows the root causes for some of our present-day challenges.

6th Generation Immigrant: Surely the deputy prime minister jests about conducting more training and education as the government's solution for the idiocy from this man who is over 60 years old.

Let's take one step backwards and argue this out intelligently, using the senator's gaffe as an example.

Imran was born and bred in Malaysia. He was educated in Malaysia. He is trained as an engineer. He is loyal and patriotic, serving the Navy until he achieved an admiral's rank.

On retirement, he joined a political party and was shortlisted and then elected as MP. He missed the boat in the last election, but nevertheless, was still rewarded with a senatorship.

He made almost the exact gaffe when he was MP, again warning of rape in relation to clothing.

Surely more training and education will not remove the spots of such leopards, and the Parliament and Senate are infested with many such people.

Most politicians also get to climb ladders of fame only through who they know – intelligence and meritocracy is always not a must.

If there is more education, it’s not for those over 60 years old, but a proper and more systemic education across the board for all Malaysians (a total revamp) for all our young. This will ensure that no such biased and idiotic ideas in the future.

The stressing and continuous preaching of religion in our education system is nesting many more misogynists like this senator.

Religion is always gender-biased against women. They must remain subservient at all times – even in dirty thoughts!

The solution lies in secular education and meritocracy in climbing the ranks social life. Our country's special and preferential treatment is now rearing the ugly end results, and this is just one episode.

Anonymous 770241447347646: Indeed, you can educate children, but individuals 50 to 60 years old should know better.

They have gone through at least 11 years of formal education and the balance years of their lives learning from their surroundings. They should be wise enough to know what statements to make.

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