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careless women
had a real good laugh over dzmm teleradyo’s latest version of “woe is me, shame and scandal in the family” : “o diyos ko, kay laking kahihiyan nito” *LOL* referring of course to the hayden kho – katrina halili sex videos that have made a nationwide joke, a laughingstock no less, of vicki belo’s hunk hayden kho to the tune of “careless whisper.”
even the alta-siyudad is enjoying the show and laughing out loud.
All of Social Manila [ as well as Non-Social Manila ] these days are in giggles, squeals, and shrieks of perverse delight on their laptops and PCs… In a series of three downloaded videos from cyberspace, but specially in the longest one, Doctor Stud, on-and-off-and-on-again boyfriend of Doctor Sexy, delightfully manifests his astonishing sexual prowess in a variety of positions with three different women.
Inevitably, it comes to mind that if the remarkable sexual prowess displayed is what Doctor Sexy is enjoying in her relationship with Doctor Stud, and it must be, then many hotblooded women and even more hotblooded gay men have justifiable reasons to be envious of her.
… Exhibitionism Galore. And an Orgy of Voyeurism for Everyone Else.
… Enjoy the Show. It’s quite something, really. Until today I thought only Caucasians could perform phenomenally like that. Doctor Stud certainly has a great future in the pornographic movies industry.
on the other hand, my gay friend iskho lopez is unimpressed. lifted this status from facebook:
The controversial sex videos between a so-called celebrity doctor and his female partners … were familiar and nothing extraordinary. It revealed the sexual appetite of the said performers, particularly the doctor who demonstrated his prowess in “eating” and predilection for using his fingers in the process.
pahabol pa ni iskho, “the routine is rather gay…”
of course i had to see for myself kung sila nga ba ‘yon and not some look-alikes, and also to have a sense of what kind of porn we’re so scandalized about. soft porn? hard porn? here’s the diff:
“Hard porn shows penetration; in soft porn, there is no penetration. We never see the dick because the dick is soft. Hence, soft porn.”
ay, kinda hard porn nga, but an amateur hidden-angle set-up, maya’t maya out-of-frame, and the video quality is terrible. if we didn’t know kho and halili, thanks to media that celebrate them, these badly done videos would not sell. the only reason these particular ones are selling is because we know, and know OF, vicky belo’s hunk of a boytoy and of the belo model who is also fhm’s 2-time covergirl and a gma7 talent, who once denied being a couple behind belo’s back, and here they are engaging in illicit sex that they’re video-recording, and badly, to boot, how spectacularly perverse.
but, really, perverse only in the sense of being pasaway or sutil, not in the sense of abnormal or aberrant sexual behavior. hayden isn’t a sicko, he’s just a spoiled handsome brat, parlaying his good looks for the good life and hot sex, but he went too far, i mean, you know, a digital diary of his sexcapades with celebrities, omg, what was he thinking? hindi niya na-anticipate na puwedeng manakaw ang laptop niya, o makopya ang hard disk? he should have been more careful. but then i suppose he wasn’t thinking, except with his dick. or it could even have been hubris. things were going so well, luck and love were on his side, maybe he thought it would never end, ahahaha. nothing never ends.
as for the alleged victim, i don’t buy jo-ann maglipon’s take of halili as an abused woman who just happened to fall in love with the wrong man, or that halili is much like our sisters and nieces and cousins and daughters.
Katrina was a pretty, 21-year-old who was earning her keep in 2007, when she fell in love with Hayden, then a handsome, 27-year-old doctor of medicine. Except for the fact that the doctor was publicly known to be the boyfriend of Vicki Belo, a doctor much wealthier and far older than he, there was nothing especially scary about him. And except for the fact that Katrina was already FHM’s sexiest woman in the world the year before, and would be voted so again that year, there was nothing especially different about her.
She was just a young, liberated working girl, full of life, with the world before her-much like our sisters and nieces and cousins and daughters. And like many of these girls, at some point Katrina fell in love, and gave her all to her man.
She was also not an insensitive girl. In my interview with her early this year, for YES! Magazine, she acknowledged that Vicki Belo was an issue in her relationship with Hayden. This is how she handled it: She played the suffering wife. Her man and Vicki could go out in the open and enjoy their partnership; she would stay in the condo and wait for when he could find time for her. She never imposed on his schedule; she waited, even if oftentimes she cried while doing so. By denying herself the pleasures of having long conversations with him, of eating out in restaurants with him, of attending showbiz events with him as escort, she believed she was already paying for her sins to Vicki.
By her reckoning, she was behaving as decently as any woman in love could. A woman, by the way, who had been told by her man that she was his other partner “in a parallel life.”
Since then, she has admitted on national television: “Ang tanga-tanga ko. Pero na-in love ako. Pasensiya na po…”
Indeed, how was she to know this doctor would have a fetish for videos? How was she to know there would be a sick environment around the good-looking fellow-of a world seemingly measured by luxury goods and travel, with friends he has wronged and who hated him, of a whole value system neither educated nor decent?
It is she who has been violated here. It is Katrina who has been abused-not once, or twice, but thrice! First, when her lover took videos of their most sexual moments without her knowledge and consent. Second, when some heartless bastards uploaded the videos on the Net. And third, when an unthinking, unfeeling public viewed the videos and enjoyed themselves.
so, it was all right for halili to make patol belo’s kho, she was in love kasi? so, she can’t be faulted for agreeing to the videotape, she had no idea naman that he was a sicko or that he had enemies who would steal and upload the tapes? oh pleasssse. what kind of messages do that send to our sisters and nieces and cousins and daughters? for all our sakes i would like to think that our girls are made of sterner and smarter stuff.
what’s true is that our girls may be exposed to the same temptations as halili and this is a good way as any to learn a few lessons in love and porn. love triangles are hell, girls, and halili could have said no to kho, or at the very least said no to video. so ingat sa mga hayden camera, girls, better praning than sorry. unless you wanna be a pornstar. walang sisihan.
by the way, it’s stupid and unrealistic to ask and expect the public to desist from watching the sex videos out of pity and/or sympathy for halili and the other women. that’s like asking us common humans to deny our sexual nature and our sexual curiosity, and it aint gonna happen. not when the buzz is, tapes of hayden kho with the sexy commedienne and the beauteous boss are coming soon. does the production quality improve kaya? abangan ;))
screwed by manangs
read ricky carandang’s screwed and manuel buencamino’s “manangs” acquit a rapist. my sentiments exactly. what a huge setback for the women’s fight against sexist politics. biglang we’re back to the dark ages when women were seen as sex objects incapable of saying no except when playing hard-to-get for extra favors. biglang we’re back to the old biases and stereotypes, among them that girls who don’t behave with strict decorum, who dress to look ‘n feel good, who drink alcohol, dance dirty, flirt mightily in public, who just wanna have fun, are asking for rape. wtf. where are these women justices coming from? opus dei? catholic women’s league? what books are they reading? mills & boon? barbara cartland?
read too rina jimenez-david who calls them “maiden aunts” and patricia evangelista who calls them “virtuous ladies”. which set me wondering, teka, baka naman mga old maid nga ang “learned ladies” na ito of the court of appeals, and so maybe they don’t know any better about men and sex and rape, and quite possibly they’ve never been drunk in their lives? so i googled them all, only to find that all three are wives and mothers, and maybe grandmothers, wow, good luck na lang sa karma.
both justice monina arevalo zenarosa and justice myrna dimaranan vidal were born in 1939. zenarosa took up law in ust and feu, vidal in feu. both are turning 70 and retiring this year. hmm, formative years right smack during the japanese occupation and the liberation. general douglas macarthur must be one of their icons.
justice remedios salazar fernando is a different story. born in 1953, studied law in ateneo, so far she has been quite popular with post-EDSA administrations and has been having quite a rising career.
She was named Chairman of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in July 1987 where she concurrently held directorship posts at the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) and the Office of Transport Cooperatives. In the latter part of 1991, she held the position of Officer-in-Charge/Assistant Secretary of the Land Transportation Office in a concurrent capacity.
In 1992, she was appointed Commissioner of the COMELEC. On May 21, 1999, she was appointed Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals, being one of the youngest to have been appointed to the position. She received several awards from both private and public sectors, such as Ten Outstanding Young Men given by the Jerry Roxas Foundation, Most Outstanding Capampangan, Woman of Distinction Award by the Soroptimist International, etc. When she retired from the COMELEC, she received an Award for Outstanding Service from the Senate of the Philippines.
i bet she has a moist eye on the supreme court. i suppose this subic rape case decision is in aid of that? how sad, specially for a baby boomer whose generation birthed the women’s movement for equal rights.
by the way, if you’re one of those who don’t feel competent to judge for themselves whether what smith did to nicole was rape or not because transcripts of the trial have not been released, so you’re willing to give the three justices the benefit of the doubt, they must know what they’re talking about, you’re taking their word for it, smith is innocent, well you might want to make tambay sa subicrapecase website’s summary of court proceedings. it was rape.
noli, loren, manny & the RH bill
congress reconvening today. sana matuloy ang promised testimony of scam & escape artist jocjoc bolante sa senado. lalo pa, lalo na, sana matuloy ang long-delayed showdown on the reproductive health bill sa konggreso.
kung magkasabay, which one kaya will ANC air: bolante or RH? sana pareho, one on ANC, the other on channel 2. and if, by chance or circumstance, isa lang ang puwede i-cover, then let it be RH, parang awa niyo na. i want to see, we need to see, the world needs to see, which congressmen and congresswomen dare defy the wishes of 7 of 10 filipinos who want, need, deserve, a reproductive health law like the rest of the civilized world.
dr. quasi romualdez, once doh secretary, counts heads in his malaya column:
In the House of Representatives, 114 members have signed up as sponsors of HB 5043 which mandates a government-supported reproductive health program that includes making available to the poor all the possible legal methods of family planning.
Given these numbers, opponents of the measure will likely resort to dilatory tactics that substitute parliamentary tricks for rational discussion.
Working in favor of these tactics is the fact that there are a number of legislative issues that will be competing for congressional attention during the six weeks that remain before the Christmas break.
Among these are agrarian reform extension and the impeachment complaint filed recently. Proponents of HB 5043 are confident however that when it comes to a vote, the RH bill will finally pass.
If the House approves the measure, the situation in the Senate appears to be similar in the sense that the minority members who oppose RH legislation will use all sorts of parliamentary tricks.
By their past statements and recent actuations, advocates of the bill count 14 senators: Angara, Biazon, Pia Cayetano, Enrile, Escudero, Estrada, Gordon, Honasan, Lacson, Madrigal, Pangilinan, Revilla, Santiago, and Zubiri.
Senators Aquino, Arroyo, Alan Cayetano, Legarda, Roxas, and Trillanes are listed as undecided. It is noteworthy that of these six senators, two (Legarda and Roxas) are among those invariably included in surveys for presidentiables, indicating the possibility that Church power may be a consideration in some senators’ decision. The neutral position of Senator Arroyo is noteworthy only because he is the only one among the six identified with the administration.
Listed as opposed to reproductive health legislation are Senators Lapid, Pimentel, and Villar. Senator Lapid’s position is clear – he opposes the measure because he perceives Malacañang to be against it. Senator Pimentel’s opposition to any population management or family planning proposals has been consistent for many years – he has always supported the position of the Roman Catholic Church on this issue.
Senate President Villar’s position that is somewhat of a mystery.
As a presidentiable who seems to be sympathetic to the plight of the poor Filipino majority, Senator Villar, more than the other aspirants for higher office, might have been expected to support what is clearly pro-poor legislation. After all, the proposed law is designed to help those who cannot now afford them to use the family planning methods of their choice in order to fulfill their responsible parenthood obligations.
Here again, the factor of Church power in national politics may again be a decisive influence. There are unconfirmed reports that the Senate President has promised a Catholic bishop that he would block reproductive health proposals. Advocates hope that this is just a rumor and that Mr. Villar, just like his political rivals, will in the end decide on the basis the people’s interest rather than political expediency.”
how dismaying that loren legarda, no. 2 presidentiable in the latest SWS survey, is undecided. and manny villar, no. 3, is unequivocally committedly anti-RH pala. alam kaya ito ng 7 out of 10 pinoys who want an RH law? iboto kaya nilang pangulo sa 2010 ang isang indecisive, ehe, undecided? iboto kaya nilang pangulo sa 2010 ang isang anti-RH/anti-women? eh si no.1 presidentiable noli de castro kaya — malamang whatever gloria wants, noli wants, ‘no?
suddenly i’m not sure the RH bill is coming to a vote soon. maybe not until there’s a public outcry for an end to the debates and other delaying tactics. i hope i’m wrong.
liars! liars! pants (& skirts) on fire!
it is clear naman to the informed public that the celibate bishops and priests plus fundamentalist preachers like mike velarde who insist that contraception is a kind of abortion and therefore evil are LYING, no ifs or buts about it.
what’s not clear is, where do they get the gumption to lie like this? what makes them so fearless, even so certain, that they speak a truth?
after some googling my theory is that they’re taking their cue from the u.s. of a., no less, where matagal nang may population management at matagal nang legal ang abortion ngunit hindi pa rin sumusuko ang mga pro-life, lalo na ang bush administration, sa pagkontra sa mga pro-choice.
ang latest strategy ng bush administration is a proposal of the department of health and human services to re-define abortion to include all kinds of contraception and, guided by this, to allow anti-abortion health practitioners to refuse to make contraception available to women in need.
the proposed new definition of abortion:
any of the various procedures — including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action — that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation.”
of course imbiyerna ang mga pro-choice, unang una na si hillary clinton:
The Bush administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly putting ideology before science and women’s health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put in place new barriers to accessing common forms of contraception like birth control pills, emergency contraception and IUDs by labeling them ‘abortion.’ These proposed regulations set to be released next week will allow healthcare providers to refuse to provide contraception to women who need it. We can’t let them get away with this underhanded move to undermine women’s health and that’s why I am sounding the alarm.”
wow, we sure could use a hillary clinton to take on the lying celibates and preachers in this overpopulated part of the world. compared to a giant like hillary, gma who loves the bishops and whose spiritual adviser is mike velarde is truly a midget of underhanded and unqualified proportions.
MORE: radicalchick’s don’t forget the woman, caffeine_spark’s some cold, hard facts
poor women
habang di ako maka-decide kung alin ang uunahin kong alipustahin – gma’s damnable refusal to scrap VAT or the bishops’ criminal campaign to stop the reproductive health and population bills in congress – heto muna ang isang komentaryong lumabas today sa inquirer na, tiyak, hindi na lang babasahin ng mga obispo.
THE MISSING VOICES OF POOR WOMEN
By Mary Racelis
In the increasingly shrill debate over reproductive health, the voices of poor Filipino women, those most affected by the problem, remain eerily missing. Why this silence?
A study done in 2000 by a Filipino and international research team found that thousands of Filipino women are in effect “practicing family planning” through induced abortion. Shrouded in secrecy, it is their method of preventing the birth of another child.
NGO community organizers report that women friends in Metro Manila’s informal settlements have related intensely disturbing accounts of abortion as the poor woman’s answer to population control. Barely able to feed, clothe and educate four or five young children, and worried about the older ones already living on the streets, a woman who learns that she is pregnant with her fourth or fifth child is likely to abort it. Effective family planning solutions not having been available to her, she sees no other solution.
Urban poor women reported graphically in 2003 that if they had P1,000, they could seek out an abortionist in Pasay City, who might have a minimally sanitary clinic and some kind of medical training. If a woman had only P500, she could go to a “hilot” [native healer-midwife], who would give her a herbal drink “to regulate her menstruation” and massage her abdomen until blood (and the fetus) is expelled. A woman who had no money might jump off a high wall or run up several flights of stairs. Failing that, she might insert a hanger or barbecue stick into her birth canal. (more…)