PM bullies country girl for swivelling hips, ignores hi-so killers
Re: “Things we learned from Lamyai, the (latest) dirty dancer”, The Nation, yesterday.
Interesting that the prime minister, who is concerned with the “morals” of the country, chooses not to castigate the various and sundry higher-class people who contribute to deaths (Preawa, Vorayuth, Jenphop, ad nauseam) but instead chooses to bully an 18-year-old entertainer from the lower classes. Says so much about Thailand, and the PM.
mtls2005
The columnist writes: [Prostitutes] point out that many people oppose prostitution simply because the self-righteous stance makes them feel good.”
Not only does it make them feel good, but most of the time it’s a cover-up for what goes on in their private lives.
For example, there are innumerable cases of “religious” men actively campaigning against homosexuality – until one day they suddenly get caught red-handed having sex with other men.
The recent Mae Hong Son scandal involved mainly men in uniform, if I’m not mistaken. And it’s common knowledge that many, if not most, of the “red-light venues” here in Thailand do not belong to civilians.
Therefore I wonder if anyone – Thai or foreigner – is actually fooled by the authorities’ virtuous stance on the matter.
But then, hypocrisy is this complicated social process where everyone in the china shop pretends that the bull is not present, in order to save face.
Yann55
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