Comments on: US TV satire calls Cory Aquino ’slut’

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:40:37 +0000

Not really different from Erap jokes making him look as if he’s too stupid.

Something like this:

FVR: Sorry ha, nalate ako kasi nagbrownout, nastuck ako sa elevator

Erap: Ako rin, nalate din, nastuck ako sa escalator

or something like this:

Ako lang magpapadugo sa ilong ni Manny Pacquiao - English.

Bumbay - DNAligo
Gloria - DNA tumangkad

By: nailbiter

nailbiter — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:02:44 +0000

DJB Rizalist, I disagree that that’s “clearly” the message. I chanced upon your blog and read your postulation on the supposed sociological root of the “slut” caption. (As you can see from the screencap above, Aquino’s head was not superimposed on the body of Paris Hilton or Britney Spears.) Plus your dismissal of a known feminist’s own declaration that she finds nothing wrong with it as her being insenstive, sexist (how?) and apparently, slow (you say she must have not had much chance to think about it?). Rather presumptuous. I think you’re overreading. It was already mentioned above, the tampered photographs, including the tone of the captions, are a parody of perezhilton.com.

I could not imagine how a segment that supports the idea of having a woman at the White House (a slant that becomes apparent with Samantha Bee’s interjections against LaShawn Barber, and the “I’m ready for a woman on top” line) would deliberately throw a sexist sterotypical diatribe against a well-known woman leader such as Aquino. I say again, you’re overreading.

By: DJB Rizalist

DJB Rizalist — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:47:11 +0000

It’s clearly based on the old stereotype of Filipina women as sluts and prostitutes from the old GI Joe days at clark and subic. Jon Stewart loses a lot of credibility with those who thought him funny, and not just stupid.