Friday, April 29, 2005

are they less loved?

watched trading women last night. it was a part documentary, part interview film on the escalating sex industry in asia. twas a depressing overview of underaged women forced or coerced into this billion dollar industry where each girl's paid an average of S$2.50 (or less) for each act.

these girls grew up without experiencing life, many of them ending up HIV positive and dying by the age of 16. they grew up selling their bodies not for luxury but for survival. it's really heartbreaking seeing women in such deplorable situations where not too far away in asia, the richer asian women (singapore, hong kong) are consumed by materialism and ungratefulness. i felt like a total witch for wanting a $300 pair of shoes, the five grand watch amongst many other desirables. what is wrong with us? why are some people so loved (silver spooners) and others so broken?

mak and i pondered over the irony of it all as we headed off for dinner after the film. here we are sitting in a cushy air conditioned theatre watching these women suffer amidst a sticky struggle of politics and impossible emancipation yet thinking about dinner and work tomorrow. as much as we felt sympathetic towards these ladies and their plight, we wondered if we would be as affected the morning after.

song of the moment: gone too soon babyface and stevie wonder

bee wrote this at 9:06 AM

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At 10:24 PM,  Unknown said...

We all try to live the best life we can, Ah-Ber.

No more, no less.

Tis ironic, those whose lives are less lived happen to be us well-fed urbanites.

It is not the lies we lead that make us base, but tis the unwillingness of our efforts that make us fall from grace.

As much as those young girls are fighting for their fate, our antipathy is enough to make a whore forswear her trade.

 

At 1:10 PM,  bee said...

i felt like one of the hypocritical allies. watching, debating and being verbally active in campaigning for a cause but no positive action done. *guilt*

 

At 1:22 PM,  Unknown said...

Better that than not feel a thing.

At least now, you are aware. >_<

 

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