I agree. But I tell you that my Lolo prohibited all my female relatives to wear shorts when going out and he required them to wear below the knee trousers. He also prohibited them to talk to guys in the street. So lahat mga pinsan ko galit sa kanya and that was just 20 years ago. Morality changes from time to time. Cycle lang siguro ito.
To some the dance was lewd. Some others say there is no problem. To his parents it is alright.
You know
what hasn't changed? The sexualization of children. It was illegal during the time of your Lolo and, guess what? It's
still illegal now.
And if his parents think it's alright, then I don't blame them because their parents must've also taught them it's alright to market to pedophiles.
But hey, you say morality changes from time to time. Can you tell me when in modern times was it acceptable to see children being sexualized?
I can't believe you compare this to wearing shorts.
We really have different taste on what is good or bad depending on so many things. Some times I also ask, why it is so that we Pinoys consider a Pinay Muchacha in a foreign country a hero, while other countries would not even consider that in their mind because they consider that as highly degrading to their race?
Why are we not adopting that kind of thinking too to preserve the so-called Pinoy pride?
My answer: We can adopt such thinking too, but we cant afford it.
Don't even dare dragging other countries into this with a completely unrelated issue. Perceptions between countries and cultures are different. But a child being made to dance in a sexual manner? Check your facts, the entire world considers this wrong and illegal.
And if you do find a country that does get "pride" in sexualizing a minor and use that to support your argument, may God help you. We can't adopt nor accept the idea of a child dancing like a male stripper simply because you think our perceptions are different.
You wanna take pride that our children dance like male strippers? Go right ahead. That's my morality telling your morality to make up your own country. Pero hindi kita bibigyan ng pera so you can "afford" your way of thinking. Mukhang marami namang bata pwede sumayaw sa mundo mo. They can entice those pedophiles to throw money at the stage to fund you.
Ours is a battle for survival. Other Pinoys are more lucky, they can just sit and still eat 3 times a day. These are the people with higher level of education or thinking and higher degree of moral values. These are the people who dont want to see their kababayans working abroad as slaves of foreigners or who dont want to see street children. These are the people with higher pride and maybe dignity.
You don't buy dignity. No one can afford it. You think lahat ng mayayaman at "can afford" may dignidad?
Open your eyes.
A low-income street vendor working 16 hours a day to support his family has more dignity in his little finger than any one corrupt congressman who buys houses abroad with taxpayer money.
People know the format of the show. You have to show some guts so if the public likes you, you will earn something in return. Explore the story of the WW girls in Willing Willy. Most of them have their own sad stories. They can dance, they have the looks so they are using this as "puhunan" so just like our Pinay slaves in the middle east, their family will eat too. Judge them too as immoral and they will just smile.
I was about to agree with you on this one until I realized you completely missed the point.
That kid was poor, I get it. He was made to dance in a lewd, sexual manner because that's the only way he knows he can earn the money Willy was giving him. I GET IT.
But do you? Really?
Jan-Jan isn't immoral. The WW girls aren't immoral. They're doing their thing with the best of intentions, to uplift their lives and make things better for their families.
They smile when you accuse them because they truly are not immoral. They are moral people caught in an immoral situation.
Immoral situation? Where?
It's right there in front of you. Willie Revillame is the immoral situation.
Si Willy Revillame ang mayaman.
Si Willie Revillame ang "can afford" at ang sinasabi mong "with higher pride and maybe dignity".
Si Willy Revillame ang may kapangyarihan, or "power", sa show nya.
And what does Willy Revillame do with his power? He uses this to take away the dignity of his audience, his contestants and his people.
Willie Revillame preys on the poor by taking away their dignity.
The people fighting for their lives are not the bad guys. Those who dangle money in front of them and force them into inhumane situations, are.
So what should be our call to these? Will we call countries of the world to stop hiring Pinays as maids to we can retain our dignity? Just like what these detractors of Willy did to call these advertisers to stop their ads because Willy is a pedophile, immoral, etc? Try to call all these employers of these gyrating girls to stop hiring these Pinays because what they are doing is highly degrading to the Filipino race too?
Who says we, or our OFWs, lost their dignity? The more you think that the more you become like Willy Revillame--thinking that you're above everyone else because you have money. Thinking that it's alright to make a child dance like a stripper because you'll give him money anyway. These are people who go to extremes to feed their families and you don't find any honor or dignity in that?
Blame those perverts who keep hiring sexual labor and prey on the weak and unfortunate.
Blame Willie Revillame.