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Thai actress dressed down for revealing gown (must read to blind to atone for undermining morality)
Reuters ^ | Feb 16, 2007 5:01 PM IST

Posted on 02/19/2007 7:57:30 AM PST by 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.


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To: pissant

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41 posted on 02/19/2007 8:46:55 AM PST by bmwcyle (If no one buys illegal drugs, we win the war on drugs)
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To: bmwcyle

She needs a caning. I volunteer.


42 posted on 02/19/2007 8:50:37 AM PST by pissant
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To: killjoy
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43 posted on 02/19/2007 9:04:57 AM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: killjoy

44 posted on 02/19/2007 9:05:17 AM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: killjoy

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


45 posted on 02/19/2007 9:05:26 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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To: HOTTIEBOY

Would you let YOUR daughter walk around like THAT?


46 posted on 02/19/2007 9:19:24 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: HOTTIEBOY
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.
47 posted on 02/19/2007 9:27:44 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Squawk 8888
Probably a fitting penalty- she probably inspired a lot of people to make themselves go blind

LOL!

48 posted on 02/19/2007 9:30:52 AM PST by Wolfstar ("A nation that hates its Horatios is already in grave danger of losing its soul." Dr. Jack Wheeler)
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To: dead
"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?

49 posted on 02/19/2007 9:32:53 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: nmh
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...
50 posted on 02/19/2007 10:24:14 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors.)
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To: HOTTIEBOY

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.


51 posted on 02/19/2007 1:32:14 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: nmh

Relax Church lady.

52 posted on 02/19/2007 1:53:07 PM PST by KantianBurke
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To: KantianBurke
"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.
53 posted on 02/19/2007 3:15:56 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: nmh
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.

54 posted on 02/19/2007 4:11:06 PM PST by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity.)
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To: nmh

"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!"

55 posted on 02/19/2007 4:24:20 PM PST by KantianBurke
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To: Yossarian

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.


56 posted on 02/19/2007 4:49:44 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: KantianBurke

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

What a sad state of affairs ... .


57 posted on 02/19/2007 4:50:43 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Leatherneck_MT
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.

58 posted on 02/19/2007 6:59:49 PM PST by ASA Vet (The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
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To: JRios1968

59 posted on 02/19/2007 7:10:48 PM PST by killjoy (Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
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To: ASA Vet
The capitals name is:

Damn. Check out the big brain on ASA Vet!

60 posted on 02/19/2007 7:12:17 PM PST by killjoy (Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
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