Stop confusing kids with gender equality

YES, PNG man, you are right with your letter in The National, published yesterday on page 39.
Humans are born either a male or a female and this natural selection remains until death.
We do not know who the so-called consultative committees are representing.
Are they representing our traditional PNG ways or some misplaced foreign concepts?
Remember, in our society a male child always carried bow and arrows to the garden or wherever he went with his peers and a girl child would follow women and young girls with a bilum on her head.
Those who promote confused foreign ideas should be ashamed of themselves.
The idea and promotion of gender equity has been confused with by many people and groups.
Many are deviating from the real fight to help our women and girls in this country.
We should understand that not all PNG men are violent; similarly not all female are non-violent.
There are men who go through difficulties in their lives because of their partners’ behaviour.
When speaking of violence, many envision it to be physical violence only; but they do not realise that verbal violence can do a lot damage to a person as well.
If there are groups advocating for us to train our children in the same way regardless of their gender then they are misled and confused.
Stop the nonsense because boys will always be boys and girls will always be girls.
There are no ifs and buts here.
People become violent at their own will, not everyone is violent.
The best we can do is to teach ourselves and our children to respect everyone equally, irrespective of their colour, creed, gender, orientation, and status in society.
Teach your children not to be violent towards anyone.
If your home has quarrels and fights every time then you have taught your child to be violent.
Unfortunately, violence is ingrained in and part of local culture in some societies in this country and it will take a very long time to change our people’s mentality.
But that does not mean it is a lost cause, people can change.

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