THE EDITOR, Sir:JAMAICAN MEN usually face various types of discrimination, even in their own country. Some of these are warranted, while others are not.
One of the most recent forms of discrimination against them, is the requirement for shirts - and shoes - for entry into some supermarkets and restaurants. I totally agree with the business owners.
But what about the women who are walking the streets almost naked, and enter both public and private business places as if they are on the beach or in their bathrooms?
It is an indictment on this country to sit by and accept the high levels of nudity in our midst.
Certainly, the defendants of nudity will rationalise it on the basis of fashion, but we do not have to be naked to be fashionable.
Whether they are the smoother, unblemished bellies, or the balky, wrinkled ones whose contour lines put the world map to shame, Jamaican women need to cover their private parts - breasts, bellies, bottoms and whatever else.
I do not go around searching for uncovered parts of the anatomy but recently I saw a virtually naked young woman dismount from a bike to step into a supermarket.
Nothing was left to the imagination. That could not have been a 'G-string' but a common 'I-string'!
A teenage boy nearby embarrassingly turned away his face and said, "No! She sick, man!"
She was not mentally deranged but morally depraved. And do we have the gall to say we are not getting any respect?
In the same vein, can't the Ministry of Health stipulate some form of dress code for vendors?
Not only is the nakedness disgusting, but also the dirty clothes that some vendors wear.
Dress code? Maybe our intellectuals are indifferent about this but simply visit the two major universities in Kingston and you will see that they need a dress code too, as many are dressed like exotic dancers or ragamuffins.
I am, etc.,
MAVERLIN OLIVER
Kingston 8
