Archived Posts 2008 [Point2e.com]: Dumb, dumber, dumbest

I hardly talk about politics, well not like every hour and every day. But sometimes I come across some impossible not to comment news not because they're great but most often time because it just defies logic. I read The Star Newspaper everyday for local and world news and Mail Online for some more World News, or rather British news.

Whilst I was going through Mail Online, I came across this headline;

"The desperate Romanian rape victim, 11, who wants a last minute abortion in Britian". Read the news proper and I was just dumbfounded by how stupid the Romanian authorities are. This girl, now 20 weeks pregnant can no longer have a legal abortion in Romania who only allow up to 14 weeks. So she can go to Britain which is max 24 weeks. But she needs permission. In Romania they denied her a latr abortion and now they're considering whether to allow her to go to Britian for an abortion. The fact that they need to consider is stupid. She was raped by her teenage uncle, now on the run. The reason the Romanian authorities need to consider her case instead of a straight yes? "The National Doctors Council, however, said the rights of the foetus should be considered and the pregnancy should go ahead.". Well all the pressure worked because I just checked the news again and the authorities allow her to go to Britain. Finally, after probably days or even weeks of trauma to the poor girl. If they don't allow, I wonder, who will take care of the child? Do you see pro-lifes adopting the kid? I doubt it.

Then I saw this headline; "Schoolboy found hanged after his father confiscated his new Wii". 13 year old described as sensitive, witty and intelligent hanged himself after his father refused to let him play the computer game when he wanted to as his sister was watching the TV. He ran up to his own room, threw a super temper tantrum and then hanged himself with his necktie. His father wanted to scold him only to find him dead. I was watching Saving Private Ryan the other day, watching so many young men die for a good cause, Band of Brothers I saw the concentration camps and Jews hoping just to cling on to hope for survival and here is this 13 year old kid, hanging himself over a computer game or rather the fact his father said NO to him. If like this also cannot tahan, how to tahan the pressures of real life? I mean I have every reason to kill myself then, every single minute. Work, lack of money, high petrol prices, can't afford this and don't even have a Wii console. In fact yesterday Star Newspaper printed the news of a husband of 4 (very young) who killed himself after he bet and lost RM90,000-00 in the Euro Championship game. Now that is a good reason to off yourself isn't it? Owing so much money to Ah Longs. I have little sympathy for him and even less sympathy for this kid. Imagine that!13 year old, dead over a Wii. All year I read about 12 year old, 15 year old hanging themselves over poor school results. Then I read about young people being bullied to their death in England or how one girl killed herself because she was rejected online by a "boy" who turned out to be mother of her schoolmate! What sense can you make of these?

And every year, like clockwork, in Malaysia we will repeat 3 main discussions;

1. why top students who are non Malays could not get a government scholarship or get into local University. Every year.

2. Should we even publish top students' results since this would hurt and discourage the not so high achievers. Re those who killed themselves. Every year also. My answer? Why deny the top achievers their glory?

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3. Every 6 months or so, discussion why women in Malaysra are raped and how to curb rapists which will inadvertantly lead to ministers or public giving dumb views like "oh the dress causes it!" or "the white sheer quality of the school uniform encouraged it" or now "lipstick and make up is a factor". I want to talk about this.

Yes, the school uniform is sheer white, more so lower income group can't afford good material and uses the same shirt year in year out so imagine how sheer it can be. But we wear pinafores. The sheerness issue is with the Malay baju kurung. Reality check; some girls like to be noticed, which is why they wear pink bras inside without singlets. Some are modest so they wear tan bra plus singlets inside. Another reality check; when I was younger we used to have PE classes in the fields next to the school. That was when we are required to wear white shirt with dark blue ermm jumper is that what you call those pants? Anyway even then I feel kinda exposed. Why white? I agree with some comments about the sheerness issue but again the fault is not with the wearer but school policy and the public who rapes. Anyway there we were exercising and guess what? A bunch of young men (in England they would have been called yobs) stood by the bus stop and just stared at us. Do away with white. Maybe dark grey please? Required uniform must include singlet? I am not saying anything but some of us do openly seek attention, but the problem is we often mistake open disrespectful stares as admiration and adulation. We were too young then. Now that we are older perhaps we can explain that to the young ones. But why is the girl being raped being blamed for it because she was wearing school standard issued white blouse?

And now make up. Oh my god. I love my blusher and lipstick. So am I asking for it? One reader in The Star wrote his unhappiness over the whole why men rape issue under the headline "Stupid excuses touted as cause of rape" (The Star, Views, 27.06.2008). Quite agree with what he wrote up until he wrote this mind blowingly irresponsible opinion; "Rape is caused by a desire due to mental illness or frustration". Sorry if I sound rude but WHAT? Desire? Maybe. Mental illness? Frustration? Can I murder because I am fed up? Don't give these scums a defense. If everything is mental illness, like watching porn, eating meat, raping people are what is crazy, the nut house at Tanjung Rambutan would require an immediate expansion into Tanjung Durian I tell you. Sometimes we can have the right intention but just the dumbest conclusion. Why people rape? Maybe desire but serial rapists are rather compulsion. Maybe you're right to say they can't help it but if you look at a wider scale, people rape to exert control. Usually they have little control in their own mundane daily lives so they rape to show how they are in control. Like those robbers who rob houses and drag the teenaged daughter into the room and rape her. Mental illness? Frustration? Hardly. So Malaysia is now in the forefront trying to answer the age old question, at least in Malaysia. Why men rape? Can we curb it? If yes, how? Well ask Quantico then. Maybe they know. What I do know is some rapists rape children (were they wearing sexy clothes?), old people (make up perhaps?) and classic case of all, a nun. A nun. Tell me, a nun, sexy clothes? Make up? Lingerie? Dumb, stupid, idiotic observations and often perpetrated by our own elected stupid ministers whether government or opposition. And they think dictating how we wear our hair, clothes and make up will curb the men's desire. Why women are blamed? Can't men wear chastity belts as suggested by the reader? Can't men castrate themselves? Buy some chemical and pump it into his genitals when he feels the urge, like they say the desire? Or better yet, can they just hang themselves for the good of mankind? How do you prevent rape? Destroy all porn? Will that help? Be more religious? Whip them more? Death penalty perhaps? I like that idea. Death to those repeat offenders, and I mean child rapists. Life and extra whipping for everybody else. Why not?

Well, this headline from the Star Newspaper world news section is perhaps the stupidest of all news I have read today;

"No death for those who rape children : Sentence is too severe, says US Supreme Court".

In America, where rights of criminals seem to outweighs everybody. First can't torture terrorists, then can't deny rights of criminals, now can even punish child rapists to death because... too severe? They said " In terms of moral depravity and of the injury to the person and to the public, they cannot be compared to murder in their severity and irrevocability". Tell that to Austrian woman trapped for more than 20 years and raped repeatedly by her own father. Tell that to those young children, boys and girls sexually abused by prominent people for decades in the horror house. Tell that to every young children who was raped but of course didn't die. How merciful of these rapists not to kill them eh? The death penalty was under review in the state of Lousiana I suppose filed by the convicted rapists of an 8 year old and 5 year old girls, I think one of them a stepdaughter. Both McCain and Obama opposed this ruling. I am sure general public would too. We are not talking about rape as in rape. I mean rape is already devastating, but on a child as young as 6 and sometimes to babies too, tell me, isn't that devastating AND morally depraved? What possible sexual attraction can one have on a mere child if not the fact that his brain although not insane but is wired differently and is of course a paedophile? How can a rape on a child not be morally depraved? Are we living in such a morally corrupt society that we dare lower down the impact of a child rape? Sometimes murders are justified. That is a fact. Provoked, bullied, self defence, frustration, etc but rape? Since when rape is ever justified? "She made me angry so I rape her?" Didn't you mean slap her? Sometimes violence is justified. I mean "yeung sui" is my standard nowadays. I mean some crime even murder has justification however much you disagree with me but rape is one of the crimes that defies justification. No, I think I shouldn't say defies, I should say does not in any situation justify a justification. Not morally depraved as murder simply because the child lived? How dumb is that. What if he raped the girl to the point she can't have children in future? What if he tortured the girl? What if he raped her repeatedly? What if he did it again and again and again under the nose of the mother who in all classic case didn't know? He will rape again if he is released. Is he whipped? Please do. Life sentence? Usually out in a decade. He goes on to rape again. The child probably need years of therapy. Who will pay? The rapist?

US supreme court is beginning to sound rather annoying to me. Too much rights have been given to prisoners. Cable TV, magazines, books, conjugal visits, shortened sentence, go out and work and then come back to prison! One day, air cond in every cell. Sometimes ordinary people don't even have access to Cable TV and here, a man raped, murdered, robbed, kicked, beaten, cheated, they all have access to Cable TV. The joke is on the innocent public.

What more can I say? The news are getting more like gossips than real news. Opinions are becoming more stupid than being really what matters. A criminal has more rights than ordinary folks.

Oh and guess what? These past fews days I have been reading in Britain how soldiers disfigured or even disabled in the war in Iraq being compensated significantly less (like less than half) than a transgendered soldier whose feeling was hurt by being sidelined or whatever. Tell me, what is the logic when how you feel is worth more than how badly injured physically? It's like saying feelings about physical aspect. People are more scared of being sued for libel and defamation than sayyyyyy knocking down a guy who became disabled because chances are, defamation and libel will cause you more than simply knocking down a guy. So before you consider saying "Funn, you're stupid" or "Funn, you're fat" or better yet, "Funn, you're a fatty stupid moronic idiotic fool of a weaker sex", you might as well run me down than say those things. Because then you need not compensate me millions for hurting my vulnerable feelings and just a few hundred thousands for effectively shutting me up physically.

Mind you, I am very sensitive person. You never know how much your words can hurt me. Oh please don't, I just read a negative comment on my review. I feel so hurt. I want to cry. And I better consult my lawyer now. Oh damn it! I don't live in Britain or America. I should consider migrating since I am such a sensitive soul, I may be the first millionaire by investing in my feelings; that is suing those who dares to hurt me. Let me cry myself a river first.

1 COMMENTS

Kidd writes ...: Agree that all those news are rather stupid. No, it's not the news that's stupid, it's the people making the news that are stupid. Especially 13 year old kid. Hanging himself over a video game?!!

As for the Malaysian news. This has been going on for ages liao. They always say the same thing again and again and again. Always blaming the women, blaming the clothes, when what is most important is education and a good deterrant penalty. There are so many men out there who DID NOT do anything untowards when he saw a sexily dressed woman. What excuse did the rapists has?

But, I do think that a women shouldn't dress so revealingly or sexily. Yes, women has the right do to so. But, this is a big bad world we live in. So, we should minimize the chances and excuse as much as possible.; 1/7/08 3:19 PM