Sense And Nonsense by Tan Bah Bah
The Urban Redevelopment Authority seemed eager to please as many people as it could in the so-called controversy over the Samsui Woman mural on 297 South Bridge Road.
If so, the MOH should rethink its strategy and perhaps even consider totally banning smoking; then, the whole issue of undermining becomes irrelevant. First, the contempt for the poor women in the world’s oldest profession was undisguised and palpable. Such vehemence for the unfortunate women who had to sell their bodies for survival or perhaps to take care of their families!Then there was the assumption that most, if not all, hardworking samsui women must be ugly. Thus, can women not be both hardworking AND attractive?
They include those found in places like Bali Lane, Joo Chiat, Chinatown and Little India. Only the one in Little India, which depicts a smiling old man drinking tea, provokes reactions because there isAnd I had to go all the way to one of the walls of the Australian International School in Lorong Chuan to find another spectacular mural – the ponderous face of an Australian of Aboriginal ancestry.
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