Thai actress dressed down for revealing gown (must read to blind to atone for undermining morality)

Reuters ^ | Feb 16, 2007 5:01 PM IST

[dead]

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A student and aspiring actress who appeared in a revealing dress at the Thai equivalent of the Oscars has been given two weeks community service by her university as punishment for undermining morality.

Chotiros "Amy" Suriyawong, a final-year student at Bangkok's prestigious Thammasat University, ensured maximum media exposure by stepping out last week in a full-length black gown, tantalisingly split from cleavage to hips to hem.

Overnight sensation ... Thai actress and uni student Chotiros Suriyawong became
immediately infamous for her questionable choice of evening gown at Thailand's version
of the Oscars. The controversy provoked disciplinary action from her university, which
has imposed a penalty requiring her to read to the blind for two weeks. Photo: Reuters

But university chiefs were unimpressed, describing the outfit as "obscene" and giving her 15 days of book-reading to the blind as punishment, newspapers reported on Friday.

"That dress", which Chotiros had to show to university staff to prove it had special "sewn-in" underwear, sparked a frenzied debate about public morality in the Buddhist country, which remains coy about sexuality despite its reputation as the anything-goes prostitution capital of southeast Asia.

One producer went so far as to delete all footage of Chotiros from one of his films, domestic media reported.

"I'm sorry," a weeping Chotiros told a news conference on Thursday. "If I'd known it would have been so controversial, I wouldn't have done it."

Tulsathit Taptim, editor of the English-language Nation newspaper, said the brouhaha had "exposed ugly truths" about Thailand and its male-dominated society.

"We have never heard of universities firing male students for visiting prostitutes, or companies demoting male executives for fathering illegitimate children," he said in an editorial.

[bmwcyle]

your

[pissant]

She needs a caning. I volunteer.

[JRios1968]

[JRios1968]

[Dead Corpse]

Hiut it like a screen-door in a hurricane...

[nmh]

Would you let YOUR daughter walk around like THAT?

[nmh]

If this was such NORMAL attire, why the thread?

Why did it make the news?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

My daughter won't be dressing like that ... look at some of the crude comments on this thread ... my daughter deserves better than that. We aren't raising a slut in training.

[Wolfstar]

Probably a fitting penalty- she probably inspired a lot of people to make themselves go blind

LOL!

[Publius6961]

"I'm sorry," a weeping Chotiros told a news conference on Thursday. "If I'd known it would have been so controversial, I wouldn't have done it."

This from a "last-year" student at a prestigious' university??!!??

WTF?

[HOTTIEBOY]

Would you let YOUR daughter walk around like THAT?

If she was 30 years old, yes.
Daughter? Who said anything about daughters. My daughter has worn a two piece bathing suit at the beach, yes.
We had fun that day. She got a sunburn. She built a sand castle. And she's not going to hell for it either.
If you think that constitutes sluttiness, then you really need to get out of the convent more often...

[nmh]

We're not talking about bathing suits.

Again, if this was such NORMAL attire, WHY so much open disgust and shock?

It's because it's way out of line. It's inappropriate.

She looks like a slut.

She ought to just wear a price tag and be done with it ... oh never mind ... she's a freebie.

[KantianBurke]

Relax Church lady.

[nmh]

"Relax Church lady."

I'd expect as much from a liberal.

Absolutely no boundaries to what is indecent.

One tries to equate skimpy bathing suits with a gown ... . Next you'll be telling me that Anna Smith should be an icon for young girls. Maybe yours ... if you have any ... not mine. We aren't raising cheap sluts.

Heck, even in NYC prostitutes display more modesty than that when working the streets.

[Yossarian]

Next you'll be telling me that Anna Smith should be an icon for young girls. Maybe yours ...

Wow, thanks for pointing out how showing how:

wearing a gown that has a thin strip of cleavage, stomach, and thigh

is comparable to

stripping, having nude photos published in world-wide magazines, shooting lesbian soft-core porn, taking drugs, appearing on a sleazy TV show that features her wasted, sleeping around to the point parentage of children is in question, and then dying of a drug overdose.

Your insight is amazing.

[KantianBurke]

"AAAAH! THEY'RE SHOWING SKIN AND CLEAVAGE!! THEY'RE EVIL HUSSIES! Where's my pic of Dubya?? I need to pray to it some more!! CAN'T HANDLE THE SIN!"

[nmh]

Your slutty view of females drives my point home.

Thank you!

One thing is certain no daughter of mine would be caught dead with someone like you. Low standards don't cut it here.

[nmh]

Yeah, they're not much better ... .

What a sad state of affairs ... .

[ASA Vet]

Well they don't call their capital Bangkok for nothin.

You're correct, they don't call their capital Bangkok.

The capitals name is:

Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokpop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivet Mahasathan Amornpiman Avatarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit.

[killjoy]

[killjoy]

The capitals name is:

Damn. Check out the big brain on ASA Vet!