The Mad Mullahs Of Malaysia told Bouncy that she wasn't allowed to wear her skimpy outfits.
Unlike the delightful Gwen Stefani, who wimped out and covered up, Bouncy told them to get stuffed and is doing a concert in Indonesia (also a Muslim country, but nowhere near as strict) instead.
Bouncy, you rock!
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3 comments:
I wonder what this post will do for your daily site traffic??!! :-)
Interesting thought though. Individual liberty/freedom of expression vs sensitivity an respect to/for different cultural values.
Of course, why should bouncy be made to cover up when the gig is a private event. As long as fans know what they would be letting themselves in for then nobody should be able to force her to do anything. If fans don't want to go because they disapprove then that is their choice entirely.
Human rights, liberty and freedom of speech attach to each individual. There is no such thing as collective or group human rights.
The rights of an individual to wear skimpy clothes at a private event overrides the vague 'right' of a group of religious nutters not to be offended.
I agree absolutely mark. A private event means the performer has total freedom.
If it were a public event, however, I would think that the performer should respect the local culture out of courtesy or refuse to perform. Just because one has absolute natural libery of expression, does not mean they should not excercise courtesy. But it is rather hypothetical and irrelevant to the story which is, indeed, about a private gig.
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