Joyce has asked me to stop obssessing over the AWARE saga.  "Never see catfight before, is it ?" sums up her dismissive view of the entire episode.  Be that as it may, I find the entire drama quite riveting, and therefore feel compelled to pen my further thoughts on it.  (Read some of the latest news and comments here).

This is getting quite dumb.

By the admission of the old guard, homosexual issues figured only minimally in AWARE’s overall programmes.  Yet homosexual issues, and wild allegations that the new guard will design anti-homosexual AWARE programmes henceforth, dominate the debate on why the new guard is unacceptable.

This is getting about as intelligent as US elections for president or senators or house representatives, where candidates stand or fall depending on single issues to the exclusion of all the other positive contributions they can make to the electorate, such as : pro-gay or anti-gay, pro-life or pro-choice, or pro-stem cell research or anti-stem cell research.

Some bloggers have suggested that the online debate has demonstrated the maturity of the internet community (interestingly maturity in that case was reflected in bloggers objecting to offensive comments against gays, nothing said about calling Christians names such as the "Christian Taliban"). 

I think defining the debate, and supporting the new or old EXCO, based on single issues only demonstrates a lack of intelligence.  Regardless of who forms the EXCO after the AWARE EOGM, AWARE will emerge poorer if EXCO members are selected not because voters had carefully considered what positive contributions they can make to women in Singapore, apart from homosexual issues in and of itself.