Uganda May Pass Mini-Skirt Ban
{ September 22nd, 2008 }
My friend Melissa sent this to me today. I haven’t heard anything about it here, but I’ll admit that I haven’t been following local news as closely as I should. It seems to me that mini-skirt distractions on the road wouldn’t be nearly so bad if someone did something to regulate the traffic. But what do I know? And what will I do with all my mini-skirts?
This is sort of fucked up.
Uganda’s ethics and integrity minister Nsaba Buturo is seeking a ban of miniskirts because of the distraction it causes, equating it with nudity:
“What’s wrong with a miniskirt? You can cause an accident because some of our people are weak mentally. . . If you find a naked person you begin to concentrate on the make-up of that person and yet you are driving . . . These days you hardly know who is a mother from a daughter, they are all naked.”
Cause an accident? This reminds me of the typical movie scene where a “hot chick” passes a gentleman who, in his trance o’ lust, walks into a pole or gets hit by a car.
Buturo is seeking to have miniskirt-wearing as punishable by law. Let’s keep in mind this guy also compared the indecency of wearing a skirt with the other “vices” of Ugandan society such as “[t]heft and embezzlement of public funds, sub-standard service delivery, greed, infidelity, prostitution, homosexuality [and] sectarianism…” Sigh.
