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SAO PAULO (Reuters Life!) - In Brazil, famed for its tiny bikinis and carefree attitude, a university student has been expelled after violent protests by students outraged at the short outfit she wore on campus. The Universidade Bandeirante (Uniban) said it had expelled the student, Geysi Villa Nova Arruda, 20, for "flagrant disrespect of ethical principles, academic dignity and morality," in a statement published in some Sunday newspapers.
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at 11:36 on November 9th, 2009
"flagrant disrespect of ethical principles, academic dignity and morality,"
Glad to see some folks still have a sense of decency.
at 11:40 on November 9th, 2009
Sort of an extreme reaction to a 20 year old in a miniskirt don't you think?
A video showed Arruda sitting in a classroom in a mid-thigh length red dress, then six military police officers protecting her as she left the campus wearing a white jacket. A line of students stood by chanting "whore."
Another video showed a mob stopping and kicking her car and blocking her when she tried to escape on foot.
at 11:54 on November 9th, 2009
Their country, their standards.
Should we start imposing lax morals on them because we don't approve of theirs?
at 12:17 on November 9th, 2009
That wasn't my point at all. I suspect there has to be more to it than a mini skirt to cause that response. Anyway, a miniskirt is lax morals?
at 13:10 on November 9th, 2009
The University and the students that heckled her are being investigated. Proper stuff!
Source: ow.ly
at 13:21 on November 9th, 2009
Thank you Blue Crush - I was beginning to think it was just me that thought this a rather bizarre reaction to a 20 year old in a short dress...well outside of Riyahd or Amish-ville at least
at 13:21 on November 9th, 2009
A man has no balls if he wants his daughter walking up stairs with a skirt that short. A mini skirt used to be decent . Now it is absurd.. "Oh, it's okay cause everybody does it?" It is pushing it and pushing triggers of men who are filled with too much testosterone. In sex addict groups no one is allowed to wear certain types of clothing...provocative clothes does what it says..produces some stimulation...plain and simple . Do not think I am condoning rape either if someone is scantily dressed as a cause. So many titillations a day is unhealthy and has nothing to do with being prudish.
There are plenty opportunities in other places for girls with no values of modesty to flaunt their buts and crotches.
at 13:36 on November 9th, 2009
"intolerance and discrimination."?
So now the powers that be get to show their intolerance and discrimination.
PC strikes again.
at 17:09 on November 9th, 2009
I believe a young girl in a miniskirt looks innocent to ME, but is it fair to young men? Some girls are modest enough to only want the beloved, the husband, to see . There has been something lost, and this is NOT prudishness speaking: it is love , love of a young girl's body, and beauty, and the sex it evokes. Sex is powerful and sacred, and modesty, as Plato said, is its proper attendant. I have always thought beauty can have no better discourse than with modesty. But I am a classical philosopher, so I am a bit different from the PC set.
at 17:12 on November 9th, 2009
addendum: years of studying Plato, Aristotle, the Nichomachean metaphysics, classical Latin of Seneca, makes me view all a bit skewed, I am afraid....
at 17:32 on November 9th, 2009
It think of it as freedom issue. She wants to wear a minidress and is called a whore and attacked. That is exactly the attitude we are fighting elsewhere. Is it bad judgment on her part...maybe, but part of growing up involves the less than stellar choice on an occasion or two. It is a thin edge of the wedge. So is above the knee okay? What about a tight top? All of a sudden you are in a censorial realm and in terms of a free society her clothing choice is not an issue in a place where I can see an itsy-bitsy bikini or monokini on the beach. Slap a burkha or a chador on her and call the issue closed-same mindset, different place, different religion. The common theme is....
at 18:25 on November 9th, 2009
Exactly. She gets attacked, heckled and called whore by other students, and then the University kicks her out for disturbing classes by "a flagrant lack of respect for ethical principles, academic dignity and morality."
Just because her outfit might not be in good taste (a matter of opinion unless there is a student dress code), doesn't mean she should be assaulted by other students and then expelled by administration.
This is Brazil, after all, where people go around naked during Carnival, not the Middle East.
She was of age, and this was a University, not a high school.
at 19:34 on November 9th, 2009
Yup. But Brazil is a conundrum. It has naked during carnival.
It is also the place where the local RC Bishop (and later supported by the Vatican) excommunicated the family of 9 year old and the doctors who performed an abortion after she was RAPED by her step-father and was pregnant with twins. A 9 year old. That is why such self-righteous positions about a 20 yr old in a mini-dress concerns me. It is just the thin edge of the religious wedge...again. Different flavor, same consequence. Mainly women end up paying the price.
Come Friday or Sunday though, the churches, temples and mosques will be full, the collection plates passed, the consciences "salved" but the world bears the consequences and pays the price. Thank you Father, damn the sinned and pass the choirboy to the left
at 19:16 on November 9th, 2009
Precisely Blue Crush a university class ?
Certainly it is wrong that she was heckled and called a whore. You could put any gorgeous girl walking down a hall scantily clad and boys are going to whistle etc. College kids heckle anyone walking across a campus. A university certainly can have some dress code boundaries. In class it is very poor taste....she can dress like that anywhere else but c'mon in a class? A beach is a beach and we expect it there.
She did not have to be publicly shamed by being kicked out of class but simply told to lower the length a little. Still she was begging for attention and she got it. It is a lesson. There could be more to the story too. Is this the first time she dressed like that? Maybe she danced at a bachelor party and they know something we don't..
Why was a camera there?. I know they are everywhere but something is fishy about this . would the boys been doing that seeing a camera around? Lotsa excuses I am sure...
at 19:38 on November 9th, 2009
She was wearing a mini-dress. Stands to reason she was a Jezebel. Doesn't the bible say she is due a good stoning?
In all seriousness. She is a young girl in a shortish dress. Why is this a disciplinary problem? Why is she abused and her car damaged? Shame on them
at 20:03 on November 9th, 2009
No rng the Bible does not say she is due a stoning .That was way before Jesus came dude. Jesus told the women at the well who had several husbands that she could get in touch with her self and never be thirsty. (it is not literal of course.) He showed love to her.Jesus came to abolish all the old Jewish laws. Whoops you are joking aren't you..It is okay for you to sneer about Christianity and joke but lil ol me was too tough on lil ol rng and got in trouble for saying something clever and probably true.
Maybe you do not have urges for that hot stuff in a mini skirt in an academic class where you might be needing to pass an exam.
Wow, I did not read that her car was damaged. Sounds like some guys were on something else rather than testosterone.. This is a revolting predicament we must stay tuned too!! It is so important.
at 20:10 on November 9th, 2009
RNG, the New Testament specifically says not to stone. You honestly didn't know that? Hard to believe. Do you have any religious education at all? What, when, where and how?
The Enlightenment was a product of the digestion of religious and emerging scientific thinking. Scientific thinking would never give us a Bill of Rights, and religion would never give us the insight into Nature's laws that we have now.
Mocking religion by deliberately misconstruing what the New Testament says is tantamount to racism in the realm of religious culture. You poison your relations with others who value what is of value in the Bible.
Might I suggest that you read the New Testament before making any other comments that reflect a lack of factual knowledge of what it says?
Perhaps a bit of Joseph Campbell would help as well.
at 04:42 on November 10th, 2009
Where does it say I have to confine my comments to the New Testament only? I did not sign anything to that effect
Why is it okay for you to on a daily (or more frequent basis) to condemn all things Islam but elect to take the bible off limits from any criticism?
Why are jokes about Muslims fine and dandy but not about other sects?
Why can't you see the difference between writing abusive comment about an individual poster, and criticizing the dogma of a religion are very different things?
at 06:21 on November 10th, 2009
The school's now decided to reinstate her, since the government sought an explanation for the expulsion and they've gotten negative attention worldwide. No explanation given.
But she's now had offers for full scholarships at two other colleges.
Here's a pic of this oh so outrageous short dress.
at 09:29 on November 10th, 2009
A victory for freedom, say I