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A contest that’s contrary to tradition
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Posted on Oct 24 2005
The wet t-shirt competition depicts the permissiveness that has taken root in this community. It isn’t a traditional art warranting display of small or bloated breasts, as that was never a part of our local culture. It’s more the equivalent of strip shows in nightclubs except it’s done publicly, even in the presence of children. It runs contrary to tradition where women are taught to respect the sanctity of their bodies and, most importantly, dignity.
The show is far from uplifting or edifying of our local culture or way of life. In fact, the segment is a miscalculated adolescent commercialization of wet breasts that annihilates all that is traditional and cultural. Would the same women allow any male to poke at their breasts unhindered? After all, they have seen fit to display them publicly. Or would you employ the belly laugh Cha`mu syndrome?
It goes to show that untamed permissiveness leads to the eventual interment of both moral compass and anchor. Call it a loss of traditional religious civility. It warrants that sponsors of any and all events must exercise some semblance of cultural sensitivity versus slipping in a segment that violates common decency.
John S. DelRosario, Jr.
As Gonno
