COMMENT | Little lords and dress codes

COMMENT | Three dress code furores in just one week of December. As usual, it involves our civil “servants” behaving more like little lords over the public

Why the obsession with covering up one’s knees before being able to enter a police station, a hospital, or a district office? The first two happened in Penang while the third was at Kuala Selangor.

Mind you, in all three cases it's no longer just female knees that excite our “moral guardians”, even men’s knees are now considered too “glaring” or “menjolok mata”.

Yes, they claim to guard our “morals”. Or as the Kuala Selangor Municipal Council (MPKS) president put it, this was “in line with the Rukun Negara on good behaviour and morality”.