I'm writing in response to the letter by Hafiza Ahmad expressing her disgust for Noritta Samsudin's lifestyle and Awam's focus on the sensationalist slant of the media in reporting the ongoing court proceedings.

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is nobody's business as long as no one is hurt or a crime committed. Not ours, not the government's nor the police's. In this case, a crime was committed - murder - and the victim was Noritta.

Let's not forget that by focusing on her sexual behaviour, Noritta's alleged sexual preferences do not make her any less of a human being despite Hafiza' s - and much of the media's, I might add -attempts to do so. It doesn't make her murder any less tragic, nor dispensing justice any less urgent.

A woman's (and a man's, I might add) right to live her or her life as she or he pleases should be respected by others, unless, as I said above, the path that they choose infringes upon the right of others to do the same.

What gives anyone the right to attempt to impose their take on normality on others? What's deemed right by one might not be the same for another (I, for one, found Hafiza's condescending letter an example of a social ill that is more worrying than all others - trying too hard to espouse your morality upon others).

Respect the lifestyle of others - even if it's different from yours - if you expect others to do the same in kind. Ignorance and close-mindedness usually breeds self-righteousness. And nobody likes a self-righteous person.

What is it with people trying to tell women what's acceptable anyway? Recently, a few women were sentenced to prison for modelling. Yes, they were wearing lingerie (although how a lingerie fashion show is supposed to work if the models were fully dressed is beyond me) and their moves might be considered suggestive by some.

I'll leave the 'you can always walk away if it offends you' argument for another time, because what's shocking is that the organisers of the event have so far got off scot-free. So why punish only these women who were doing their job, and not the people that hired them to do so?

Where was the public outrage at this blatant injustice? Presumably non-existent because it once again boils down to the point I gathered from Hafiza's letter: that these women's supposed 'immorality' makes them less worthy of respect and equality under the law.

Judge others from a self-constructed pedestal if you must, but don't expect others to do the same.