--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote: > > What is going on in Goa? Are we taking 10 steps > backwards in every direction? I am not only ashamed, > I am actually terrified for Goa. > Mario muses: > Preetam & Elisabeth, With all due respect, while I agree that this new dress code is silly and intrusive in the increasing global social climate, I still don't get this new sentiment of being "ashamed" at the drop of a hat - of something one has nothing to do with. I think that real "shame" is best reserved for personal transgressions, and sentiments like regret, dejection, bemusement, indignation and anger for those of others. > And now, "actually terrified" - why? Because some silly, overbearing bureaucrat is taking himself or herself too seriously in suggesting a salwar-khameez dress code for school girls? > And how about the extreme hyperbole in the Subject line - "Talibanisation"? Has everyone forgotten what the Taliban are all about - sadism, misogyny and extreme brutality based on a warped interpretation of their religion? > Is Preetam seriously suggesting that the dress code is "...now threathening the very social fabric of the native Goans..." Is the social fabric of native Goans so fragile? > Private schools around the world have all kinds of dress codes without any claim by anyone that they are sabotaging the social fabric. > "Misguided", "stupid" or "prudish" are the worst adjectives I could come up with for this action. At most, this is just one step backwards, and should be easily reversed with some strident parental protestations. Maybe I'm missing something. >
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