Obama's New Council on Women and Girls Is Another Hollow Gesture

We wondered all along how Michelle braved the chilling temperatures of the past few months in short-sleeved dresses. Reconciling being surrounded by four women at home probably makes a man mesmerised to the realities of prevailing social sexual imbalances and let's face it, nature has programmed the sexes to respond to certain situations in logically inexplicable and strange ways. But be that as it may, women's issues are best integrated into mainstream political considerations and decision-making overtly, intentionally and pragmatically in the manner the Norwegians have endeavoured to do statutorily if mankind can ever hope to trump over inequalities of opportunities and achieve a certain level of equality between the sexes. If the purpose of enactments is to ensure positive action backed by sanctions, it goes without saying that the same procedure will be the only most effective way to ensure that well drafted statutes designed to address gender inequalities based on missed chances takes account of the natural conditions which inescapably influence the lack of progress in proportionately accelerating the improvement of gender imbalances. But both women and men need to take cognisance of their own individually internalised negative values which hinder genuine self-criticism so that the path is kept open all the time for recognising behaviour which facilitate and nurture the perennial circle of sexual discrimination. Obama cannot be expected to rectify millennium-old human maladies with the 'magical click of the thumb' overnight but given his exemplary and unprecedented agility in taking command of the most pressing issues affecting the common good not only of the American society but of the world which is currently copying his every move (a world which is looking up to him from every nook and cranny of its corners literally), we own him that space of time necessary to tackle an area of humanity that has been classified as 'private' for time immemorial and which will always be met with deeply held subjective notions as diverse as the world itself is. Let's wait and see what will have happened by this time next year at least. There is a lot of work to be done by everyone everywhere all the times and, by the way, did he not wisely ask for everyone's assistance in doing it?

Patricia of Kenya-Germany 2:25PM March 12, 2009