Sunday, November 25, 2007
I am pretty amused by the article in today's Sunday Lifestyle about child models. No, I do not have anything much against them, unless of course it is their parents who want them there and not the child. But the bit that I found hilarious was on the warning; they warned parents of would be child models to be careful and not let their child get exploited. One of the examples given was that they be careful that their children do not pose in scanty clothes or in provocative positions.
The advise is certainly excellent, but the irony was the just above the article, there was this picture of this I think five year old girl in a string bikini top! A five year old in a string bikini? How more scanty than a five year old girl dress (of course going by the pseudo moralists standard)? I would assume that the next thing other than that would be that the child goes topless with her chest being covered strategically.
I think that the whole xenophobia in Singapore is really getting out of hand. I mean for crying out loud, please just cut these people some slack and try to understand where they are coming from. These people are just practising what they would do in their country! I know some people do frown upon the Bangladeshi workers holding hands, but in their culture, it is a form of friendship.
Must xenophobic pseudo moralists complain about them must unwinding? A lot of the claims appear to be just border lining xenophobia or even worse, racism. To take the law in your own hands and proudly declaring that you beat up a guest worker is just ludicrous! I would think that the person should be charged for that. If that guy was part of the vigilante group, the whole group should have been charged for illegal assembly and not the guest worker. Why? Because you need to have the intention to do wrong before a group can be considered as an illegal assembly. If beating up a person is not considered as doing wrong, I seriously need to know what constitute as doing wrong.
Over the past month where I have been taking the MRT, I noticed that it is usually our migrant population and guest workers whom are putting us to shame. I have witnessed at least two instances whereby the guest worker tries to offer a seat to pregnant ladies only to have pseudo moralists rushing to grab the seat. It is amazing how even with a pregnant belly in their face, pseudo moralists will not give up their seats. Of course, there are nice Singaporeans out there too who will give up their seats and these are the people whom are doing us proud.
he spoke at 11:17 am
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