Idiots
Jesus I go on a trip for a weekend and the idiots gang up on Jon Stewart. What is this, Whine About Perceived Slurs Against Filipinos Week? I couldn’t care less about Desperate Housewives that bland overhyped tarted-up version of Knots Landing, but I have a personal stake in The Daily Show because it’s one of very, very few shows that recognize the existence of intelligent viewers. It is not my policy to explain things to the irony-challenged and literal-minded–they’re not my audience, and as Reret would say, Kawawa naman ang bobo. But we’re talking about Jon, my husband and the father of my children.
Regarding the segment in which hearts and “Slut” are scrawled across President Corazon Aquino’s photograph: It is a satire built on stereotypes of women. Aquino is referred to as a slut in the same way Golda Meir is called a wimp and Margaret Thatcher a stupid tramp. Any reasonably intelligent viewer knows that Meir was not a wimp, Thatcher whatever you thought of her policies was not a stupid tramp, and no one in their right mind would call Cory Aquino a slut. It is absurd to even say it, it is ridiculous. That is how The Daily Show delivers its point that stereotypes of women are ludicrous and untrue. To make it clearer, the point is delivered by the female correspondent Samantha Bee, spoofing the images of women seen on Sex and The City. That is what you call irony. It is assumed that the audience is smart enough to spot the difference between what is being said and what it really means. Sheesh, the segment is even titled “Is America ready for a female president?”–emphasizing that Israel, Great Britain, and the Philippines have had female chiefs of state ahead of the United States, the supposed champion of democracy and equality.
I hope you got that, but if you don’t it is not my problem or Jon’s. By the way, Jon is not really my husband and we do not have children. He is my mistress, and we like to bake cookies together.
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October 8th, 2007 at 09:14
Good on you. The Daily Show is the best show on TV at the moment. The problem is, it isn’t on TV where I am anymore.
Stupid TV channel.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:20
That’s the thing. Other people do not watch The Daily Show. They just saw the news that former Pres. Aquino was called a “slut” and there they go, made all such fuss about it without even trying to know what the real story is.
October 8th, 2007 at 13:06
And for Pete’s sake, Kris Aquino had to admit on Philippine TV that her sister doesn’t even know what a slut is… now, what the eff is that? So, the so-called street smarts could cream the so called “intelligent” ones? But well, i doubt the intellect.
And to quote Kris, she said something like “Anong mararamdaman nyo kung sbihan na ang isa sa mga leaders nyo, ay let say, callboy…”
She killed me! She has to say that.
To defend her mother is but natural. Her, as a leader of the state, and as her own mother. But please, don’t show the family’s idiocy and ignorance. And those uncalled for words that she had to use, she completely and totally missed her whole point.
October 8th, 2007 at 18:41
Face that we are a country peopled by narrow-minded reactionaries. We easily take offense for just about anything. Subtext is, we want to to show the world we are no cows. But really, the deeper structure is we are still a maladjusted nation – always feeling api
October 8th, 2007 at 19:27
Wow!
Defensive ah!
Kala ko kaw na unofficial spokesperson of The Daily Show to Asia!
October 9th, 2007 at 08:16
Geez. Thanks for another controversy we are now the official laughing stock of the world.
October 10th, 2007 at 00:04
Exactly! The word slut was written all over the picture imitating Perez Hilton’s “style” of slamming celebrities. I don’t like Filipino slurs but I watched the show last week and Samantha Bee was actually complimenting Cory & Co because the woman she was interviewing was saying that a woman president, compared to a male one, does not have the capacity to lead. I love The Daily Show but I don’t recommend it to everyone.
October 10th, 2007 at 00:23
who’s your favorite daily show correspondent? mine’s john hodgman. john oliver is a close second. i like listening to mr hyper lewis black’s rants too.
October 10th, 2007 at 18:42
pinairal na naman kase ang mga bunganga bago ang utak.