It's time to rant! When I flipped open the local dailies today, I could already feel my blood boiling with rage. No, it's not the usual rancour over our incompetent politicians. Nor is it from our self-righteous religious zealots who erroneously believe that certain holy nouns belong solely to themselves. Come on, did they copyright those words?
*Deep breath* I am not supposed to rant over the other issues!
No, this time my ire is roused by the fact that women these days have pixellated breasts. Yup, these days women in our country come equipped with a big patch of pixellation over their cleavages.
OMG! Hide your cleavage! Don't let anyone see!
Which I thoroughly object to. Come on, why would you pixellate cleavages? Trust me, the women featured in the newspaper articles are far from naked. Have to admit the daring ensembles these celebutantes were wearing had desperately plunging necklines that just happened to bare more than a teeny wee bit of cleavage. Perfectly harmless if you ask me. I've seen far more scandalous ( and way tackier ) haute couture right here in town.
But you know the salacious-minded religious conservatives would immediately equate generous booty-baring with sexual licentiousness. And then somehow link it to rising sexual crime rates.
For them, any sign of wardrobe malfunction would be a call for rape, I'm sure.
Not that I wanna ogle the enormous jugs - haven't been swinging that way in a while - but hell I respect the rights of that monstrously horny, pimpled adolescent teenager with his tongue drooling at the newsstand. I say let them look. I doubt q quick glance at a well-packed rack is gonna turn them into raving lifetime sex maniacs... so what's up with the bloody censorship!
Sexual harassment? Get over it. Trust me, there's nothing more sexually empowering than a hot mama looking her best in a va-va-voom dress making the dirty dawgs drool mindlessly over her. If you've got it, flaunt it.
Of course rather than celebrate their beauty, the narrow-minded religious conservatives over here - and the well-meaning though sadly foolish PC idiots who pander to them - find the need to cover up these ladies by pixellating their bountiful assets.
So why am I making a mountain out of two molehills ( perhaps bigger actually )?
Well because if you give the conservative zealots an inch, they run and conquer a mile - with religious tomes and concealed terrorist bombs. What next? Segregation of the sexes? All the women covered in the purdah? You might laugh but this is how it all begins.
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Mind-bending, ya?
The question begs Paul... will there be those willing to stand up to these individuals where you live and demand changes and the ability to decide on their own?
I will never begin to say American's have all the answers (look at the f**ktard that's in the White House and current foreign policy). It's really about standing up, taking a stand and willing to force change.
I don't understand the whole anti-breast thing. Our country had a collective fit when Janet Jackson bared her boob. So what? When you pixilate a breast, doesn't it just draw more attention, anyway? "Don't look at this shameful thing! We have to HIDE it! It might burn your eyes! Aaaah!"
Things are so out of whack when we can watch mind-numbing levels of graphic violence on regular TV, yet go completely mental over a mammary gland.
It's funny how we can see a reality show that lets us watch a live silicone implant operation, or a woman's corpse being dissected on a CSI autopsy, but DON'T YOU DARE let her show too much cleavage or nipple...
Now, now, Paul. You're being just a tad paranoid about Malaysia becoming another Afghanistan.
However, having said that, pixilated boobies and trademarked Allah are definitely silly :)
As far as I know, only Chinese newspapers pixelate boobs. Magazines use artliner. :P
If there were plenty of female nudity back when I was kid, I would have grown up straight. :P
I can't help but laugh at Quentin X's comment. That's hilarious!
Speaking bout pixellating the cleavage, I once watched this porn that pixellated the guy's penis... which i thought was kinda biased coz they didn't pixellate the lady's vajayjays & boobs.
(hmm...i'm kinda off topic ain't i? hehehee)
I haven't read your blog in ages, so it's interesting to read this particular entry.
If I recall, you were very much pro discipline with a cane, as were all the other commentators on your blog. However, a country so conservative that they would punish a child with beating IS the kind of conservative country that would pixellate cleavage. I am not surprised in the least.
Michelle
Shocking. And now they are thinking of gender segregation in schools. Even nuttier, nyonya!
I think the moderates have to speak up and make their voices heard, tjay.
Pray hard we will move towards the right path soon, ben.
Don't see why they are so afraid of a lil cleavage as well, dman.
At least you're agreeable, shah & drew :)
Yikes. Chinese newspapers too, william! EEkz.
THat's probably true, quentin - but let's not tell them :P
Well now they will, perky :P
Doesn't mean everything's right here, michelle.
Paul
you know what i don't get?
newspapers...a newprint image of cleverage is a no-no....in films when they go into a bra...censored...yet at pavillion...midvalley...at those high end stores...what you see on the wall deco?
Cleverage...and sometimes nipples in their full glory!
Linus
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