Do Not Genderize Animal Welfare work

Someone remarked, "Why is some boy of his age... doing all these animal work? Could he be gay?"

Based on this assumption, animal volunteerism or animal welfare work and conservation is a highly gendered issue.

A concept ludicrously constructed and ludicrous to the ears.

Yes, it may be a female domain, but to flippantly comment with a perspective that helping (and saving) the animals is something which meets with gender segmentation -- that a guy who would, could or should be doing things as socially-deemed "normal", or whatever that means, is gay for spending time with some stray dogs -- is shallow at best and infantile at worst.

NUS Students' Animal Welfare Group was kickstarted by a male student.

NANAS was founded from ground-zero by a man. So were many other animal-related societies all over the world.

Instead of focusing on the irrelevant social construct behind animal welfarism, one might like to channel all the energies on the animals in need of homes, in need of medical treatment, in need to escape from inhumane culling methods. In need of specialised studies and research.

Animal welfare work knows no boundaries -- no ethnic, no financial, no religious and certainly, no gender restrictions.

The late Steve Irwin who had a pure heart and harboured ambitious ideas on animal conservation -- may I bring to your attention -- is a man. Does it mean he was gay?

Think.