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posted by on Monday May 01 2017, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-grow-up-so-quickly-these-days dept.

Free Malaysia Today reports

At the [Malaysian] National Scholastic Chess Championship 2017, which took place in Putrajaya recently, the girl was informed that what she wore was "improper and had violated the dress code" for the tournament.

[...] The girl's chess coach, Kaushal Khandhar, wrote on Facebook, "In the middle of Round 2, (without stopping the clocks) Chief Arbiter informs my student that the dress she wore was improper and violated the dress code of the tournament.

"It was later informed (by Chief Arbiter) to my student and her mother, that the Tournament Director deemed my student's dress to be 'seductive' and a 'temptation from a certain angle far, far away'."

[...] Kaushal said after discussions with the chief arbiter, the girl was allowed to compete, provided she bought a pair of slacks for the next day, but that decision came at 10pm and with the event at Putrajaya, there was no way the girl's mother could buy anything for the 9am start the next day.

"Before the morning round next day, my student's mother called the tournament director regarding this matter. Initially he had replied that he was not aware of the situation but after a brief discussion, we realised he knew all the details on this incident prior to this phone call.

"He promised to return the call upon discussion with the chief arbiter, but this did not happen. He would further not answer or return any calls by my student's mother", Kaushal wrote, adding that the situation led to the inevitable decision of withdrawal from the tournament altogether."

We should perhaps note here that Malaysia is majority-Muslim.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @06:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @06:07PM (#502422)

    I'd love to wipe the three major and various derivative Abrahamic religions off the Earth

    From your lips to God's ear.
    OK, yeah. A little to much irony.

    ...and I've gotten down this far in the comments and no one yet has used the word "patriarchal".

    The burka, abaya, and skirt-must-touch-the-floor-when-kneeling notions all come from the same "thinking".
    Where there is a problem, it's the guys' urges.
    Stop with the blame-shifting already.

    You mentioned Iran.
    I'll point to Iraq (before USA decided to bomb, invade, and occupy that place.)
    Yeah, the Shah and Saddam were both real bastards on many levels.
    OTOH, girls in their countries had access to education and education is empowering; it's what lifts women out of this second-rate status.

    ...and it does my heart good when bradley13 and I agree on things (multiple times in this (meta)thread), when we are so often in disagreement.

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