We Filipinos are indeed the kings of internet. We have voted a boxer and several beauty titlists to stardom with but a mouseclick. On a Pinoy-per-packet basis, we may even have dominated Friendster or any other free service we may find on cyberspace, more than any other race. Freedom of expression has taken a huge facelift and just like any Belo or Calayan operation, we still find flaws.
The Malu Fernandez issue brought to light Pedro's love-hate on the superficial. Malu's elitism on one side and Pedro's disgust over her waistline.
In no way am I defending Malu; she clearly has her faults. Making fun of OFW's while bleating every designer brand she knows of would have been unthinkable. Her style puts journalism, and everything it represents, in a bad taste. With her article attached, an email brigade calling all to 'arms' must have spread like the Greek fires last week. These mouse-toting Pinoys swarmed onto her like mad bees waiting for their turn to sting.
Double whammo! We hit her back with every adjective to describe her waistline. Sad thing is, we have just become bigots like Malu, only poorer.
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