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shouldn't men be offended?

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The gender insensitivity of  Sri Lanka's senior bureaucrats is outrageous!   Today, at the policy dialogue on Sri Lankans on the Move , an international conference on migration organised by the National Science Foundation, the top most bureaucrat  of  the Ministry that should be most sensitive to women and children issues, seemed to suggest that women's migration as domestic workers should be restricted because such migration leads to incest in the households. [He made some other interesting interventions so cannot be considered a complete write off!]  Basically, restrict women's right to movement, to earning income, achieving higher social status, becoming empowered,  just because men folk can't keep their w@!&$s  under control!  Sheez! On top of past comments by  our Ambassador to the US   and the Chairman of the SLBC  one wonders whether the women's movement needs a campaign of penile amputations Thai style , to establish that it is the men that need to take