Infidelity
The Star Online: Lifestyle
The Malaysian newspaper ran an interesting article on infidelity today. Towards the end it collated differing opinions from women concerning the issue.
This I guess is nothing new, I've been reading about this social phenomenon in women's mags for quite sometime already. Commentaries on this issue usually pinpoint the cause to the economic independance of women, education and gender equality.
It usually ties in with the women getting tired with their man, or something to that effect.
Not that there is no merit in this observation-it does provide an explanation. But if that's all there is to the issue, then I can't see where morality comes into the picture. But being the national paper, the editors would like the issue to be analyzed from a purely sociological point of view-I take it to mean that it would be the most 'fair' and objective stance?
I would seem to think that in Malaysia, the general public views divorce and infidelity not so much moral problems as much as they are problems in the sense that people are hurt by it. Since hurt people cannot function at their best, I guess it would mean that the underlying understanding is that a solution would involve accepting the reality (the reality of divorce and infidelity) and find ways to cope with the hurt caused by it (which of course is real- doesn't matter wheter you believe is 'right' or 'wrong').
I've noticed that in the artile, the keyword is culturally acceptable. To the editors (and writers) their official opinion I take it would be that relationships(BGR, husband and wife, etc.) are all just 'culture'?
The Malaysian newspaper ran an interesting article on infidelity today. Towards the end it collated differing opinions from women concerning the issue.
This I guess is nothing new, I've been reading about this social phenomenon in women's mags for quite sometime already. Commentaries on this issue usually pinpoint the cause to the economic independance of women, education and gender equality.
It usually ties in with the women getting tired with their man, or something to that effect.
Not that there is no merit in this observation-it does provide an explanation. But if that's all there is to the issue, then I can't see where morality comes into the picture. But being the national paper, the editors would like the issue to be analyzed from a purely sociological point of view-I take it to mean that it would be the most 'fair' and objective stance?
I would seem to think that in Malaysia, the general public views divorce and infidelity not so much moral problems as much as they are problems in the sense that people are hurt by it. Since hurt people cannot function at their best, I guess it would mean that the underlying understanding is that a solution would involve accepting the reality (the reality of divorce and infidelity) and find ways to cope with the hurt caused by it (which of course is real- doesn't matter wheter you believe is 'right' or 'wrong').
I've noticed that in the artile, the keyword is culturally acceptable. To the editors (and writers) their official opinion I take it would be that relationships(BGR, husband and wife, etc.) are all just 'culture'?
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