Hi,Daughter No 2 has been avidly watching Hello Kitty since I bought her a DVD when I was in Jakarta last.
It's hard not to buy DVDs in Indonesia when most disks cost less than a cup of coffee back home.
It is wholesome stuff, and good toddler-education. Covering such subjects as sharing, saying you're sorry and being a friend.
As with all toddler telly the theme tune is catchy and continues to drive me insane. Especially when your daughter sings it at full volume.
Of course Hello Kitty has been around for ages and is a huge character in the Japanese "Cute" culture phenomenon. Where mainstream adults display their affections for their favourite cartoon characters in the way they dress.
You can get everything from neck-ties through to Hello Kitty g-strings. And it turns out that Thailand are getting in on the act - but with a completely different angle...
Police officers who commit minor offences are being forced to wear a rather distinctive little Hello Kitty armband.
You can find the BBC article on it here.
So we've got the juxtaposition of people displaying affection to a character and those being punished and made to look soft by being forced to wear an icon that lessens them.
This all got me wondering... as you would expect.
Could people be punished by forcing them to wear unfashionable labels, or to advertise products they use which fall into the "unmentionable" category?
I find the idea of a drug possessing Paris Hilton being forced to wear items from J C Penney's, or a vote defrauder Hilary Clinton being forced legally to wear a shirt advertising Super Size Tampons, bloody hysterical.
Not a fashion crime - more of a fashion punishment. Definitely a low cost approach to home detention.
NP out
3 comments:
I like the idea of fashion punishment - great one actually. This would actually affect some people quite strongly and others not much.
Policemen, or other manly guys having to wear pink or bows or something... class.
Now - I was fully expecting this to be an argument for the including of Hello Kitty in some pagan pantheon, but I guess not. :(
I just hope it doesn't result in a rise in minor offence by police officers, who are secret Hello Kitty fans.
You could also punish Englishmen of non-Viking descent, by forcing them to dye their hair a nice, luscious ginger.
Nice ginge comment.
hahahahahaha
NP
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