Sexy dress or dirty mind?
posted in - Nation, - Palmdoc |It’s the sexy dress, says council president
If the dress was not sexy, the incident would not have happened.
This was Penang Municipal Council president Datuk Abu Bakar Hassan’s response to a complaint that a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera in the City Hall was zooming in on the thighs of women journalists instead of council proceedings.
Abu Bakar was unhappy over the “sexy” attire worn by some women reporters during council meetings.
On Friday, a reporter spotted the image of a woman’s thighs on the CCTV monitor in the control room and alerted other journalists who complained to council secretary Ooi Chin Loo.
This is a terrible terrible excuse and worse still to come from a Council President. Blame the victim and not the perpetrator. This is the same primitive thinking behind those who argue that the victims of rape, sexual harassment etc. are to blame and not those who commit the crimes.
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November 12th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Looking for an excuse only lah. Afraid of taking the flak.
November 12th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Sexy dress or dirty mind?
it was a dumb excuse.
November 12th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Well, things are getting dumber & dumber!
November 12th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
We need to restore local government elections.
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=811
November 13th, 2006 at 8:05 am
Latest news reports in the Star:
Council chief slammed over remark
Stop blaming the victim, say groups
No place for sexist thinking
NUJ: Sexy attire remark utterly baseless
November 14th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
If you want to have a look and judge for yourself what the journalist wore on that day – was it a “sexy dress” or not look at this post:
http://jinkeanlim.blogspot.com/2006/11/qualified-as-municipal-council.html