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“Boobs for Booze” @ Overeasy

Early last week, a widely circulated email hit my Bloomberg Inbox with the resounding thud of a pair of D-cups.

One Fullerton being one of the favourite hangouts for us traders, we instinctively perked up at the hint of a “free booze” offer at OverEasy.

Inspired by DJ DCUP from down under, the “Boobs for Booze” promotion created quite the commotion, taking a few precious minutes worth of  attention away from the stable of stocks we were monitoring. 

The promotion: 1 female and 1 male judge from OverEasy will gauge the approximate size of the fully clothed contestant’s cup size. An A-cup = 1 drink, B-cup = 2 drinks, C-cup = 3 drinks… you get the drift. 

Half-baked or Overdone?

This promotional news scored high on the amusement scale - an opinion that was not exclusive to only the male traders; my more well-endowed female colleagues too were raving like rabbids, estimating the value of their assets.

Sure, there were a couple of my species who gave a mildly disapproving opinion, but they too acknowledged the ”smartness” of the tongue-in-cheek promo. 

Quite unlike the extreme dissent some of my media-world friends saw.

Everyone rightfully exercising their freedom of speech, the office became a verbal battleground: Closet Feminists emerged, Veteran Feminists launched their best weapons, attacking the mild-tempered and more objective Neutral Feminists for NOT finding the promo downright derogatory.

Singapouriennes are a strong, hard headed lot. Sometimes too hard. But who can blame us? We are expected to be dutiful bearers of, and doting mothers to, our nation’s progeniteurs, domestic helpers to The mothers-in-law and the second (often bigger) leg to our typical dual-income-family model.

The Right to Rights

“  All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.  “

- Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

While I do empathize with Feminists and Female Chauvanists, I nonetheless believe that nothing comes “free” in this world.

If I demand equal rights, then I may reasonably have to accept that while my male counterparts are expected to go through involuntary enlisting to the army at age 18, I should perhaps, not accuse infrequent and subtle nudges of pro-family planning rhetoric, of attacking my rights as a woman.

Also, the corollary to equal rights, is freedom of choice.

For every equivalent of OverEasy’s cheeky promotion, there are different “target audiences”. All have the freedom to choose to participate. Or not. Honestly, who’s forcing you to bear your breasts or flash your chest at an apathetic crowd?

Another example: ultra-mini skirts. Wear them if you must, if you want. But if you do, you will attract attention - mostly unwanted. With this time-tested, statistically proven knowledge, you should know your risk-reward ratio and the consequences of your decision. Should you choose to go ahead, hope that nothing untoward but not unexpected, will happen (touch wood!) to you.

We cry out and clamour for Singapore to be an “advanced society” that is based on liberty and freedom. But until we accept the accompanying responsibility, this freedom of rights that is in my humble opinion, already upon us, will always remain shrouded in the elusive veil that some of us choose to hide behind.

I expect headon collision with hardline Feminists to come my way soon. Meanwhile, I’m gonna continue chilling out at OverEasy anyway.

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 thangdynasty is a work-in-progress maintained by an accidental equity trader whose brief foray into the world of investments turned out… not so brief. Although unmotivated by the senseless pursuit of money in and for itself, she remains sadistically intrigued by the complex anatomy stealthily at work behind the whole spectrum of Markets – Fine Art, Financial, Fish and Fools. A budding art collector and supporter of emerging artists, she slogs to prevent collateral damage to her bank account resulting from occasional manic art buying sprees. thangdynasty joue au Poker avec les marchés financiers de jour et essaye de se racheter de nuit en se montrant a la autour de son nom.