Woke Culture
Culture & Media
Problematic Pronouns: How to Respond to Workplace Pressures
Facing pronoun pressures at work? 🤔
Dive into a few practical strategies to navigate this sensitive topic.
Whether you're seeking to accommodate the requests of others without compromising your values, or needing to stand firm on your convictions, this article offers insights for everyone.
Culture & Media
Problematic Pronouns: Resisting Their Cultural Takeover
Singapore's Preferred Gender Pronoun Movement: A beacon of inclusivity or a master manipulator of language and societal norms?Gender ideologues twist language and leverages societal pressure to champion a disputed, politically-charged ideology. By framing common sense as hate speech and pushing 'inclusive' language, it places a minority's demands for affirmation above basic reality.These tactics control cultural narratives, sidelining opposing views. Engaging in pronoun culture isn't just problematic—it endorses and amplifies its extreme stance, with harm to children's well-being, women's rights, and individual freedoms.
Society
Non-Binary Nonsense: Too Late for SingPost to Course Correct?
Is the rush to adopt "non-binary" categories in corporate Diversity and Inclusion policies more about virtue signaling than grounded evidence? This thought-provoking article takes a critical look at SingPost's recent D&I changes, suggesting that the drive to conform to such Western-imported ideas could be sowing division rather than unity in the workplace. Don't miss this deep dive into the unintended consequences of 'woke' corporate culture.
Governance & Policy
“You’re Cancelled!” – This is Basically Bullying, Right?
Cancel Culture, justifiable or abusive? Cultivate Singapore looks at how you can examine incidents of cancellation through a clear lens, and casts a vision how how Singapore can do better than normalising social bullying.
Society
Plot Twist! ‘Sex’ and ‘gender’ are now the same again
Once upon a time, sex and gender were the same. Then liberals came along and bifurcated the two. And now, as if definitions were on a merry-go-round, they're back to being the same again. But this time, they're so warped, it'll shock you.
Invited Opinion
Shifting Values And The Search For Meaning In Singapore
Singapore's society remains largely conservative on moral values. Yet, there have been significant shifts in recent years, especially in relation to sexuality. These point to a deep and growing desire for identity, intimacy, faithfulness, and a profound search for deeper meaning and purpose. These desires manifest in certain forms of activism over contentious moral issues, which have taken on religious-like zeal and conviction.
Here's how these developments present both a challenge and an opportunity for conservatives of any creed.
Culture & Media
Are We Seeing the Rise of Anti-Police Sentiment in Singapore?
"All Cops Are Bastards" is a rallying cry that's seen resurgence during the BLM Riots of 2020. We've also seen it come up in response to Raeesah Khan's allegations of police mismanagement of sexual assault cases, but does it have a place in Singapore?
Culture & Media
Speaking of Race, and Violence
The Straits Times published a commentary on race, titled “Racial stereotyping may seem harmless but it is a form of violence.”This is dangerous rhetoric. We explain why.