Outrageous!

I was enraged to read in the papers this morning that women in Kelantan working in retail outlets and restaurants have been warned to mind their dressing or face a fine!

Apparently the Kota Baru Municipal Council (MPKB) announced that it would no longer tolerate indecent dressing by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim. Their Public Relations officer Mohd Azman Daham said that under local council by-laws women who “dressed sexily or indecently” could be fined up to RM500. Gee, public relations apparently...I'm sure they have lots of firefighting to do now. Trust these guys to always put the blame on women when it is the women who are in fact the victims of lustful, sex-crazed, horny men.

Perhaps MPKB should also adopt the following ruling:

1. Men who cannot control their urges should stay at home between the hours of 6pm to 8am. They should only leave home to go to work and back to prevent them from falling into sin when its "really not their fault"
2. Men who are "suspected" of having roving/hamsap eyes should be immediately fined on the spot by undercover women spies hired by MPKB. Women as spies because they would know when a fellow woman is being perved on
3. Should some women not obey the above ruling, men who still will bring themselves to look at such shameful and intolerable dressing by women should be equally held responsible and fined for wanting to look. Perhaps they can split amongst themselves the RM500 fine?
4. Fines from men committing such immoral acts of looking at another woman lustfully should be put in a fund to invest in clothing for the orphans. The clothes selected by a "fashion committee" in MPKB along with their PR division will be following guidelines imposed by themselves so as to train the young not to grow up dressing unacceptably (God help us if anyone in the committee is "soft" and has good fashion sense, but that's another story altogether eh).

I'm just concerned that the next announcement MPKB issues would ban women from being of a certain body size, e.g. below a size 10 and less than 150 pounds, if not they might look too sexy for men to "tahan", even with decent clothing. Sigh...

I don't disagree that some women dress too provocatively and have way too little cloth, Mariah Carey has become the poster girl, but for crying out loud, we're all humans with personal rights. Take that away or fine someone for being themselves (within acceptable boundaries of course) and we're back in the days of school uniforms, and the MPKB people Gods. Men should take a good look at themselves before blaming women on such matters...seriously!