Sometimes when we thought we did the right thing, someone else will chide us for doing it wrong. Vivian Balakrishnan lashing out at Sylvia Lim aka Quah Kim Song's new beau. Netizens slamming National Geographic Channel for a publicity stunt involving hired actors dressed as soldiers. You cursing the ERP for charging you six bucks to use the ECP.
However, when the principal of St Margaret Secondary School suspended students for going to school hairless, on their heads, she probably didn't expect a backlash. No, the girls are not mimicking a disgraced AKB48 member or a depressed Britney Spears of 2007. In fact, it was for a charitable cause.
Unless you are living in a cave which even Wolverine doesn't (he toured in Japan!), you would definitely know that the charity event here is Hair for Hope. The event encourages people to shave their heads to send a message to cancer patients, especially the young ones, that it is alright to be botak.
There is a Western food outlet which calls itself botak. The Rock, Vin Diesel and Bruce Willis have hardly any hair on their heads. New daddy Prince William will probably join them in a few years' time. Then, there are thousands of Singaporean males who have experienced it on their enlistment day.
So, it is perfectly fine to spot a shaved head. However, society still prefers people to have hair on their heads which is why child cancer patients dread undergoing chemotherapy where "harmful chemicals" are injected into the body to kill mutant cells. Good cells will also perish which results in hairfall.
The principal did not want her students to spot punk hairstyles. They had to look good and proper as a student. But I always thought St Margaret's green polka dots made it the worst school uniform in the country. They better clarify what does looking good really mean.
For flouting school "rules", the girls were ordered to pontang lessons to buy wigs, which costs $70 each. I could enjoy 35 haircuts on Pulau Tekong with that amount of money.
Despite being the vainer gender, these teenage girls deserve to be applauded for their courage for making a bald statement. Thor would be proud of them.
Because courage is immortal.
And to hell with the principal.
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