Honour thy tissue ?
After a short video clip was circulated showing a 16-year-old female student and 17-year-old male student from a local public high school having sex, the head of Indramayu district in West Java province of Indonesia, Irianto Syafiuddin, has a funny way of asserting his high moral values and emphasis on women's virginity. He made a proposal to carry out virginity test on all female high school students in his district.
The proposal was dropped after parents and students protested against the proposal. I just wonder what is the purpose of finding out who is and who is not a virgo intacto. This is another immoral attempt by narrow minded people using social issues such as sex and religion to gain political mileage and portraying themselves as holier than thou. Wouldn't it be better if these people can focus their energies and efforts to bring greater economic developments to their people, rather than wasting time trying to devise mechanisms to conduct moral policing. Isn't it equally immoral and sinful to incompetently managed the economy and that lead people to live in poverty and hardship ?
I felt equally disturbed to read a piece of news from another part of the world, where a young teenage girl was inhumanely stoned to death simply because she fell in love with a boy from another religious sect. As usual, these people always legitimizing their cruel acts by claiming to defend their honour. Defending the honour of who ? It doesn't make sense to me that there is honour in killing the defenseless. But again, how can I be so insensitive to question other people righteous way of life and sacred cultures ?
Here you go again, social issues being hijacked and manipulated by narrow minded human being to imposed their intolerances on others without due regard and decency to respect others' human rights. Sometimes I do wonder what drives a misguided men to be so obsessive with a small piece of tissue. Oy yea, oy vey, sex is dirty, oh sweet virginity, thy pleasurable thingy, where art thou stick the dicky ?
Om mani pedme hum
The proposal was dropped after parents and students protested against the proposal. I just wonder what is the purpose of finding out who is and who is not a virgo intacto. This is another immoral attempt by narrow minded people using social issues such as sex and religion to gain political mileage and portraying themselves as holier than thou. Wouldn't it be better if these people can focus their energies and efforts to bring greater economic developments to their people, rather than wasting time trying to devise mechanisms to conduct moral policing. Isn't it equally immoral and sinful to incompetently managed the economy and that lead people to live in poverty and hardship ?
I felt equally disturbed to read a piece of news from another part of the world, where a young teenage girl was inhumanely stoned to death simply because she fell in love with a boy from another religious sect. As usual, these people always legitimizing their cruel acts by claiming to defend their honour. Defending the honour of who ? It doesn't make sense to me that there is honour in killing the defenseless. But again, how can I be so insensitive to question other people righteous way of life and sacred cultures ?
Here you go again, social issues being hijacked and manipulated by narrow minded human being to imposed their intolerances on others without due regard and decency to respect others' human rights. Sometimes I do wonder what drives a misguided men to be so obsessive with a small piece of tissue. Oy yea, oy vey, sex is dirty, oh sweet virginity, thy pleasurable thingy, where art thou stick the dicky ?
Om mani pedme hum
