Did you hear about the latest
Hong Kong scandal involving
Edison Chen and
8 other women? If you haven't, then you must either be aversive to gossip or just outdated. All you have to do is google it and you'll find an array of links relating to the scandal, with incriminating photos included. Even wikipedia serves as a good resource.
I now pose a question to you: What makes this kind of story so scandalicious? 1. We enjoy being a "kei-poh" (a busybody); and 2. Our lives are so humdrum that we need such news to excite us. Ok, jokes aside. This scandal has highlighted the dangers that women can encounter when caught off guard. We need to be aware, especially young girls, that there are men with an ulterior motive - to exploit the female body for their own desires. Women are widely known to be the embodiment of vulnerability and men perceive that trait as something inferior. Hence they believe it is their right to take advantage of their vulnerability. I know it is difficult to see through that thick layer of epidermis and these are the guys who appear innocuous and nice.
THEY are the ones the ladies should be wary of. But just for the record, not all men are as nasty as some portray themselves to be - there are genuine chivalrous guys who would treat a lady like she's the queen - his one and only queen.
So, to my fellow female friends, be on the lookout for such people and don't lose your guard. This event may have caused many heartaches, disappointment and anger - and even exposed a shocking revelation about some of the victims - but the positive thing that arose from the ordeal is that it has brought a sense of awareness to the world. Who would have thought we live in a perfectly safe world, devoid of peril? If you did, you're either naive for you've been sheltered from all the malice by those who have good intentions at heart, or you're in the protection of your loved ones. At least you now know the existence of amoral people and the atrocity that entails.
