School uniform sexy, says group
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian group condemned the uniform worn by girls at government schools, saying it encouraged rape and pre-marital sex.
“The white blouse is too transparent for girls and it becomes a source of attraction,” National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia vice-president Munirah Bahari said in a statement.
“It becomes a distraction to men, who are drawn to it, whether or not they like looking at it,” she said, calling for a review of uniform policy so that it did not violate Islamic ideals.
In multicultural Malaysia, home to majority-Muslim Malays as well as ethnic Chinese and Indians, female students at government schools have a choice of wearing a white blouse with a knee-length skirt or pinafore.
They may also wear a “baju kurung” and a headscarf is optional for Malay students.
Munirah said that “covering up” according to Islamic precepts was important to fend off social ills, including “rape, sexual harassment and even premarital sex.”
“This leads to babies born out of wedlock and, to an extent, even prostitution,” she said.
“Decent clothes which are not revealing can prevent and protect women from any untoward situations,” she said, suggesting that girls wear a blouse of a different colour or with an undergarment.
However, the girls themselves also came in for criticism, with the association saying that some used the white blouse to lure men.
“This is the source of the problem, where we can see that schoolgirls themselves are capable of using this to attract men to them,” Munirah said.
“This could see them getting molested, having premarital sex and all sorts of things.” – AFP
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/5/22/nation/21326822&sec=nationFor the benefit of the few non-Malaysian readers of my blog, allow me to give you a clearer idea of the utter stupidity and ignorance of the group's claims:
This is my youngest sister, Yi Lynn. She is wearing a standard secondary school girl's uniform. It consists of a white cotton collared blouse and a light blue pinafore, which is usually knee-length or just above the knees. The other option is the baju kurung, a traditional Malay dress which is white at the top and light blue at the bottom. It's basically long-sleeved, tubular, all the way down to the ankles.
Fucktards. Go tell that to the toddlers, frail grandmothers and young women who were clad in tudung, baju kurung, covered their aurat as stated in their Holy Book. They are rape victims too! It saddens me more that it was a woman who made these comments. The ignorance and shallow-mindedness is so deeply entrenched in our society. *Sigh*...
Read also the 2 responses to the article:
Senseless Attack on Uniform
Don't Push Blame on Women's Attire
5 comments:
Hmm, she's missing long sleeves, a tudung, long pants, anti rape undergarments, face mask and spacesuit
Simply ridiculous. ><
One wouldn't have thought that educated people (women especially) would have mind-sets as displayed by those mentioned in your entry.
What they claimed was shocking and shameful to the max.
Steve: LOL... yea god forbid she step out of the house without wearing her space suit!
Yuen: Next thing you know, they'd say burkas are too sexy cos they make you look like flirty jellyfish...
i think they meant the baju kurung one 'cz it czn be a lil transparent if you wear dark coloured bra
Anonymous: Um, I think they were referring to the white blouse in the article. And for the baju kurung, girls have wear camisoles underneath so you can't really see much.
Anyway, thanks for dropping by my blog! =)
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