Be A Wise Promoter of Social Justice

Posted on May 20, 2009
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I opened an email from a friend who warned about some hanky-panky at a very well-known local water theme park. Together with the warning about a hidden camera in the female changing rooms, were combo photographs of two young ladies stripping bare.

I was naturally outraged. Later I wrote to my friend about the folly of mass forwarding such a warning with explicit photographs. I understood that her intentions to warn others were good but it would have been better to do so (just the words of warning, if at all they are true) without the photos. Better still, send it to the management of the theme park for verifications or as a complaint.

Firstly, we are really not sure if the photos were taken at the said theme park. However, if they were really taken there, the humiliation suffered by the two girls is already enough. The photos are still circulating through no fault of theirs. I can’t bear the thought that one of those girls could have been me.

So, if we continue to forward such photos, then we are just as guilty, if not more, than those peeping toms cum photographers. Why should we continue to support these perverts? By doing so, we have become agents of pornographic material.

Some years ago, a friend forwarded some horrific pictures (with a title like “Social Injustice” or something like that) of young Chinese girls being raped, murdered and mutilated by another ethnic group in South East Asia during the late 1990s. I was in a state of shock for hours.

I felt raped, invaded and violated just by looking at the pictures. It took me quite awhile to regain my composure.

Photos are very powerful medium. They are powerful imprints in our minds. As I have often been told my play therapy supervisor, “If you are not part of the solution, don’t be the pollution”. In this case, if we cannot stop the unwholesome actions of others, we can take the proactive step in halting the circulation of such material.

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