Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring "Hello Kitty," the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of shame, a senior officer said Monday.

The striking armband features Hello Kitty sitting atop two hearts.

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6 Comments:

*waves hands* That's soo HOT!

By  Unknown, at 4:52 PM, August 06, 2007  

WHOA!!!! YOu're going to be up north (close to Iron Mountain). We should totally meet there and grab some coffee!

By  Unknown, at 9:10 PM, August 06, 2007  

While I understand that people will respond to what they will respond to, to use Hello Kitty as a punishment seems to reinforce stereotypes that men should be ashamed not to be masculine in the way that other people think they should be and that women can't be police officers. The article makes it pretty clear that only girly girls and children like Hello Kitty and that all men should feel terrorized by the thought. Although if a man is secure enough to like Kitty, his punishment will be very tolerable, and that's cool (albeit ineffective), but I still don't like what the bureaucracy is dictating.

By  Steph, at 1:42 AM, August 07, 2007  

It makes me sad to hear that pink and Hello Kitty are consider shaming factor for men. How gender-biased is that?

sad, sad, sad, sad, sad.

Tas

By  Anonymous, at 6:38 AM, August 07, 2007  

You know, it wasn't until this morning when I was brushing my teeth in the bathroom, thinking about my blog (hush), that I realized how gender-biased it was. HOW SAD IS IT THAT IT TAKES ME NEARLY 16 HOURS TO REALIZE THAT?? I suck at being a feminist.

'Cause there's what you guys said, plus the automatic assumption that the police officer 'must be' female.

By  mystickeeper, at 6:57 AM, August 07, 2007  

Ha ha, I can read.

By  Unknown, at 8:44 AM, August 07, 2007  

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