This is absolutely outrageous. The Education Ministry in Malaysia has produced an anti-gay booklet that has brought shame upon the nation. It actually instructs people how to “spot gays.” The question is, why would they do that? Another question that comes to mind is, once they are spotted, what would these “educators” like people to do? There can only be one answer: Persecution.
This grotesque effort is also offensive. Imagine if an education bureau in another country produced a pamphlet titled, “How to Spot a Jew.” Or maybe a brochure for a country with strong anti-immigrant sentiment titled, “How to Spot a Malaysian.” You get the idea of how dangerous this effort to stigmatize a minority truly is.
Here is a story on the topic:
A government-endorsed parenting guide that describes symptoms of homosexuality has kicked up a storm on the Internet, with human rights and sexuality activists expressing shock and disgust.
Sin Chew Daily today reported that the Education Ministry had endorsed the guide as helpful to parents and teachers.
It was launched during a seminar in Penang yesterday. The event, billed as “Parenting in addressing the issue of LGBTs (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders)”, was officiated by Deputy Education Minister Mohd Puad Zarkashi.
The guide listed four symptoms each for gays and lesbians:
For gays:
Muscular body and a fondness for showing off the body by wearing clothing, such as by wearing V-necks and sleeveless tops
A preference for tight and bright coloured clothes
An inclination to be attracted to men
A tendency to carry big handbags, similar to the kinds used by women
For lesbians:
Showing attraction to women
Distancing themselves from women other than their girlfriends
A preference for hanging out, sleeping and dining with women
Absence of feelings for men
I do want to thank the geniuses in the Education Ministry for pointing out that gay men are into dudes and lesbians are into chicks. Wow, without those factual nuggets I’m sure we’d all be scratching our heads trying to unravel the great mystery of homosexuality. But what are heteros into? I’m stumped and can’t figure it out. Maybe the Education Ministry can get around to answering that riddle as well.
“Absence of feelings for men.”
…no s**t?
An inclination to be attracted to men … duh, a tad redundant don’t you think. And I’ll have them know that I carry a *small* handbag (more like a clutch) for keys, iphone, wallet, reading glasses, pill case and asthma inhaler. If I put all that into my pockets, I’d have gopher thighs.
ps…does this mean that my mailman is gay?! He carries the biggest bag of all.
I’ve noticed an explosion of gays since tablets became popular. Tens of thousands of gays coming out of the closet with their big handbags!
It’s not just how to spot them, it’s how to deal with them… AIDS spreading scum.
Most AIDS is spread by heterosexuals Jeff.
@ Jeff Grey
Ummm…
Most HIV is spread heterosexually unless you happen to be in America or one of the tiny handful of countries to which it spread from America. America as a whole was very, very lucky. HIV came here vectored into the gay community via bisexual prostitutes in Haiti. As a result we have an infection rate of approximately one third of one percent. In the nations of sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease is primarily heterosexual, the rate of infection ranges from a low of seven tenths of one percent to two nations with infection rates in the mid twenties percent range. The average is something like seven percent range with lots of countries in the ten to twelve percentage point range.
Only the fact that HIV entered the US within the gay community has kept it this contained.
So, maybe you ought to pack your unreasonable misconceptions at the door.
Reyn
Jeff, it seems to me you have HIV? Am I wrong?