Are you AWARE of the furore?

When the news first broke on AWARE's surprise takeover, I read it with mild interest. After all, what would I, a guy be concerned about the forced takeover of the Association of Women for Action and Research?

Then, as more information came in, it slowly became obvious that this was pre-planned, by people from the same church [Church of our Saviour] no less, where they joined the organisation within 3 months of the AGM.

It was then quite obvious that they planned to take over AWARE, despite their claims to the contrary, and went ahead and did it.

Now, what is wrong, you may ask? The organisation had a sloppy constitution, so they deserved it?

What does the organisation hope to achieve?

From their initial stance of no-comments, that they were there to guide AWARE back to the right direction, to a huge media outburst against homosexuals, primarily by Thio Su Mien, mother of Thio Li-Ann, whom we fondly remember for her anti-homosexual speech during the repeal of Section 377 saga.

Let's look at how everyone is related to everyone.

Thio Li-Ann - MP, anti-377A
Thio Su Mien, mother of Thio Li-Ann
Dr Alan Chin, nephew of Thio Su Mien and husband of Josie Lau
Josie Lau, current president of AWARE and wife of Alan Chin; niece-in-law of Thio Su Mien

Non-related:
Ms Charlotte Wong
Ms Irene Yee
Ms Jenica Chua
Ms Maureen Ong
Ms Sally Ang

All attend the same church. Yet during an interview, there was a claim on them not knowing each other before the AGM. How interesting, and blatantly false.

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