Mea Culpa (With Regard to a Delete)
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Because this is a bad time for ranting about entertainment-related faux pas, I apologize publicly for the entry I posted earlier, entitled “Presidential Slut,” later renamed into “Daily Show Calls Cory Aquino a ‘Slut.’” It was definitely not a lapse in judgment: I am not making excuses. I was only trying to point out something, but I decided to pull out my entry at the last minute for fear of a lawsuit or something to that degree. I very sincerely apologize to anyone who has read it or viewed it (which accounts for two people).
With the state of the Filipino blogosphere today, we all live under the fear of misinterpretation. I pulled out my entry at the last minute because of fear: I am afraid that somebody out there will accuse me of being “chauvinistic” or that I am an enemy to all. I do not usually pull out my entries, mind you, but these are bad times: we all are torn between speaking our mind and speaking about what’s on the mind of other people. I did not write said pulled-out entry to elicit traffic, but I wrote it because it is consistent with what I do: to write about the issues of our times. Yet in this day and age, struggling writers like myself are confronted with the problem of what to write about, to the point that we even struggle with our identity as writers.
The point behind that entry was to point out an important point: that we, as a people, can no longer laugh at ourselves anymore. Yet I will continue to write about things that are consistent with our times. I believe that blogging could be more than just a way to talk about ourselves, but to talk about ourselves as situated in society. Yet I exhort upon all blog-kind to write about the issues of the day, and for them to grow the courage of writing about these issues with more courage than I could muster.
My very sincere apologies.
Marocharim
