Simply because she does not have anyone in her family circle born as one.
My wish is that the future generations in her family circle be generously littered with many of these nice creative and enterprising types of people.
(And she's as wicked as that MiddleEast leader what's his name? who denied the occurrence of the Holocaust).
'Mentor' reacts to jibes
By Sandra Davie, Senior Writer
The Sunday Times 3 May 2009.
Dr Thio Su Mien addressing the crowd at Suntec on Saturday. Amid loud boos and jeering, she held up a 2007 book Aware had published on the women's movement here and said she felt 'very charmed' to have been mentioned in it.
SENIOR lawyer Thio Su Mien stood up to respond to the jibes on why she had declared herself the 'feminist mentor' of the women who seized control of the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) in March.
She had called herself that when she revealed on April 23 her key role in bringing about Aware's sudden leadership change.
Dr Thio, Ms Josie Lau and five others on the executive committee booted out on Saturday all attend the Anglican Church of Our Saviour in Margaret Drive.
On Saturday, amid loud boos and objections, she held up a 2007 book that Aware had published on the women's movement here and pointed out that she was mentioned as the first woman dean of the Law Faculty - from 1969 to 1971 - at the then-University of Singapore. Holding up the book, she said she felt 'very charmed' to have been included.
As the booing and jeering continued, Dr Thio told the crowd: 'Show some respect to your elders.' Someone in the audience responded: 'You have to earn respect.'
She wanted to continue, but she was drowned out by chants of 'Your three minutes are up, three minutes, three minutes.'
Later, she told The Sunday Times she was surprised by the 'anger' and 'vehemence' she felt from the Aware members. 'It's very scary,' she said. 'What is happening to women in Singapore?'
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