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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Don’t impose one’s dress code on another – Tan Eng Bee

Suzanne G.L. Tan claims she was made to cover up by the JPJ when at one of its offices. – Facebook pic, June 9, 2015.Suzanne G.L. Tan claims she was made to cover up by the JPJ when at one of its offices. – Facebook pic, June 9, 2015.

I do not know whether to be amused or to be perturbed when I read your report, "Woman too indecent for RTD" where a woman wearing a blouse and a knee length skirt wanted to transfer ownership for her car in JPJ was asked to wear a sarong to cover her modesty.
Her attire appeared offensive to the officers at the counters.
For far too many times, we read news like this one, where women were ordered to leave government offices and to return decently dressed, or the latest, for convenience's sake, said woman was not turned away but was given a sarong to conceal her "adjudicated modesty."
The nation had debated many times in the past on what is decent and what is not, and what is modesty and what is not. Sadly, women have to bear the blunt and explicit rules set by the authorities.  
In this case, I admire that woman for her bravery to ask the public to judge or gauge whether her dressing is permissible to go to a government office, in this case, the JPJ. 
On the whole, our women are decently dressed and no man should allow his imagination to run wild, uncultivated and ferocious when women crossed his part.   
Let our women have their sense of dressing in any manner they want as long as their modesty is protected and unexposed and none should impose his authority or preference on what women should or should not wear as long as they are decently dressed for the occasion.
If there are rules and regulations that make life difficult for women for whatever reason, it is time to remove them and set them free to express their preferences, their choices, and their likes. None should impose his dress standard, benchmark or criterion on another. Do not impose one's dress code on another.
Women deserve our respect and adoration and should not be subject to unfair rules and regulations that attempt to undermine their dignity and total well being.
By the way, we were born naked into this world until we grew up to realize what is decent and what is not. Obviously, this particular woman's dressing was not offensive or indecent but appropriate and comely enough to be allowed into the JPJ office.
* Dr Tan Eng Bee reads The Malaysian Insider.

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