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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:">I do not watch TV very often but I peeked on clips of the White House
Correspondents’ 60</span><span style="font-family:">th</span><span style="font-family:"> anniversary dinner and
LOL’d on the joke on Hillary Clinton being an attractive next President since
we can pay her 30 percent less.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:">Michelle Obama, however, did one thing Hillary did not do while in
the White House, that is, to deliver the Presidential address on behalf of the
President. Michelle before Mothers’ Day
broke a barrier and spoke on behalf of the Nigerian school girls kidnapped in
Africa. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:">Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand was deposed by a
Constitutional Court’s ruling for “abuse of power”. The reason on the massive street protest by
the “yellow” group led by former deputy Minister and self-proclaimed General
Secretary of the Democratic Reform Party, Suthep Thaugsuban, is Suthep’s charge
that Yingluck is a puppet of her brother, the military-deposed former Prime
Minister Thaksin. Her “red” supporters,
of the north and northwest quadrant were subdued during her term, advised not
to do anything while the “yellows” mouthed their diatribes, but that has
changed as Yingluck is out of office, and Suthep desperately wants to be
appointed PM without benefit of election.
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:">The Shinawatra “dynastic” reign began when upstart Thaksin became
Prime Minister in 2001, the only PM to serve a full term without being kicked
out for corruption, to return on a popular landslide until summarily deposed by
the military on 2006. Charge? Corruption, of course! Thaksin and Suthep had been at loggerheads
from the start. In 2011, Thaksin asked
his younger sister Yingluck to lead the “upstart” party, subsequently becoming
PM after she bested Suthep’s Party.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:">I am going to great lengths on this because it is clear from where I
sit that Yingluck’s luck ran out when she was reduced to being a female
mouthpiece of her brother. The
“corruption” charge on him is par for the course. Suthep, too, not only was accused of
corruption while in public office, but also of murder for giving direct orders
to shoot at protesting “red” shirts while he was in office. The last three
decades saw corruption judgments from the Constitutional Court against
Thailand’s politicos, the latest being on Yingluck, the luckless female in the
bunch!</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:">Park Geun-hye in Korea, daughter of the assassinated Korean President
Park Chung-hee, has been subdued of late grieving over the tragedy of the MV
Sewol ferrying High School students to the island of Jeju. Though we applauded her ascension to her
office as a female politician, the patriarchal Korean society makes her act
more to out-guy the guys in public. She
is refreshingly showing part of her feminine wiles into a guile-filled posture
of submission and artfully gaining acceptance.
Merkel of Germany, on the other hand, does not hesitate to arm wrestle <i>mano-o-mano </i>Putin on Ukraine!</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:">“Women”</span></i><span style="font-family:"> in Chinese means “we”,
a rather collaborative, cooperative, and communal term. An old saying, revived by Mao Zedong, <i>“nu ren nong ding ban bian tian” </i>(women
hold half of the sky), emboldened Chinese female during the revolution. Many female entrepreneurs following Deng Xiao
Ping’s opening up and reform made bold moves, with a few, particularly in
financial matters, taking their initiatives beyond the pale of the law.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:">But China still prefers its sons, with the current lopsided ratio of
54 males to 46 females in the under-30 population. Among my students at the University, snagging
a boyfriend, however, remains a top priority, and management personnel in corporate
offices are still dominated by the strutting cock! <i>(Khuy! </i>for Vladimir.)</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:">The abduction of 284 girls in northern Nigeria that has the world in
an outcry was on the objections of rebels on their education. Malala of Afghanistan survived an
assassination, an activist towards female education in “veiled” countries, a
thorn in al-Qaeda’s stomping out of the female specie from learning to read and
write, and in a misuse of the name of Allah, would not have them have a mind of
their own in public!</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:">Matriarchy in the Marianas is well entrenched. A co-teacher refused to marry the father of
her three children so that she can parcel out real estate along matriarchal
lines. But on the whole, the reason we
chuckle at the WH Correspondents’ Dinner joke is that almost a century after
the US gave women the vote, they still have to try harder just to be at par
with their male counterpart in almost every field with a long way to go. Michelle might have cracked the WH glass
ceiling this Mother’s Day.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:">I watched the Clintons while living in Washington DC during their
term in office. That was a conjugal
presidency that the US could not accommodate.
We are due for a female President.
Hillary and Bill might be watching their health to be an option. I see Hillary to be too divisive for a nation
needing desperately to be healed.
Elizabeth Warren, an Okie transplanted to the East Coast, fights hard but
with a feminine touch. I hope she
considers taking the plunge.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"> “We the People” can translate
to <i>Women Renmin </i>in Zhonghua. Will get a t-shirt emblazoned with: <i>Women<b>
</b></i>for Warren.</span><span style="font-family:"></span></div>
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<div><i>yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today. participate. In all, celebrate!</i></div>
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