Wednesday, March 18, 2009
I know this is going to make me sound like I have been living on Mars for the past month, but I only found out about the streaking incident in one of the NUS halls this morning when I read the Culture Vulture column in the Staits Times.
Like the columnist, I'm horrified that the students are being punished so heavily for a small, silly act like streaking at 4am in celebration of their hall's victory in the Inter-Hall games. I think this ridiculous prudery is a big problem with the NUS authorities and Singapore society and institutions on the whole. Nudity is not always sexual (and it certainly wasn't in the case of the streakers), yet the authorities seem to readily assume that it is so and thus they go about censoring/punishing nudity in such a puritanical manner. They seem to have minds like that of the governess in The Turn of the Screw - stifling in its Victorian propriety yet ironically the dirtiest and most vulgar of the lot.
kaoru said at 7:19 PM
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