For example, alcohol advertisement is prohibited in the electronic media, but not in the print media or cinemas. The RTM code prohibits the use of scantily clad female or male bodies to sell products but the Home Affairs code for the print media does not carry such a clause. Even within the Film Censorship Board members, there's inconsistency between stations. For example, the FCB group assigned to RTM banned Baywatch and Model Inc. but the FCB group in Metrovision passed those two titles. While all the codes and Acts are concerned with indecent exposure of human bodies, there is no policy regarding the stereotyped portrayal of women, including domestic violence and abuse.
Women are under-represented in all regulating boards.
To quote a case, I am involved in amending the Film Censorship Act 1952. I came in , in the last four meetings of the drafting. The final draft was approved by the working committee last Monday, that is the day before I left for this conference. And he was smiling sweetly to me, which is irritating and that makes me go on my long explanation and quoting examples. On that day, a guest, another very senior legal officer from the Attorney General's office came to help check the final draft.