Double standard on Philippines’ #1 National Pageant

This is just a random thought. Maybe this is a very late observation, but I think this is worth the posting.

I remember former Channel V Veejay and Model Joey Mead or Joanne del Pilar Angeles in real life was asked to withdrew from the Binibining Pilipinas 2001 pageant due to ‘overage’. I remember Joey Mead interviewed in ABS-CBN’s sunday showbiz talkshow during that time, asserting she was asked to withdrew from the pageant since she is overage (at the age of 26).

Joey Mead in a contested magazine cover in 2008

Regina Hahn in her Official 2009 Binibini headshot

It can be noted that Bb. Pilipinas gives 3 national crowns namely the official delegates to Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss International. On the three big international pageants, the following are the age limits:

Miss Universe – 18 (min) – 27 (max)

Tthe maximum age of 27 for a delegate is that she must turn 27 not earlier than February of the year – for confirmation. Eventhough, in the early years, Miss Universe used to accept 17 years old as the minimum age. To note that Miss Universe 1957 Gladys Zender from Peru was 17 when she won the Miss Universe crown, and Rosario Rico Toro of Bolivia in Miss Universe 1990 was 17 years old at that time.

The most notable 27 years old contestant at the time of their competing at Miss Universe were:

1. Leonora Dibueno, Miss Uruguay 1994 – non-finalist at Miss Universe 1994 held in Manila, The Philippines.

2. Arlene Peterkin, Miss Trinidad & Tobago 1995 – top 6 finalist at Miss Universe 1995 held in Windhoek, Namibia

 

Trinidad & Tobago’s Arlene Peterkin was 27 during the 1995 Miss Universe Pageant in Windhoek, Namibia

 

Miss World – 17 (min) -25 (max)

Miss World is more popular in Europe. That is why most European national pageants have their minimum age requirement as 17 years. This results that most European National Pageant Winners who are both sent for Universe and World often replace their Universe contestants with any of the runners-up.

The current Miss World Venezuela, Maria Milagros Veliz already turned 26 last January/February 2009, thus it is a debate if she would be not allowed to participate. Veliz won the Miss World Venezuela 2009 last August 2008 whereas she was only 25 years old, therefore meeting the age requirement of Miss World.

Miss International – 17 (min) – 25 (max)

This rule has been violated by Miss International 1979 Mimilanie Laurel Marquez, if the claims in some interviews in the recent years stating that she was 14 or 15 during the pageant is true.

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Now, Joey Mead was 26 in 2001. Which means, she can compete in Binibini but she can never be crowned Bb. Pilipinas World or International since she would appear overage.

But in March 2009, the daughter of 1974 Miss Universe 4th Runner-up Rosemarie ‘Chiqui’ Brosas-Hahn, named Regina Hahn was allowed to compete at the 2009 Bb Pilipinas pageant. Hahn is 26 years old. Why was she allowed to compete? Is this a double-standard, since Chiqui Brosas is a close supporter of the Binibini, or for any other reason?

Hahn can never compete at Miss International nor Miss World. She is overage. Is that the reason why she was only given a runner-up position?

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If that is the case, Joey Mead should have been allowed to compete in 2001. She is a supermodel, a veejay. Mead is spontaneous, frank, talk active and fashion-forward in respect to her choice of fashion. She could’ve easily won Bb. Pilipinas Universe 2001, thereby upsetting Zora Andam who is perfect for Miss World.

Mead in case allowed to join and placed 2nd or 3rd overall (taking Universe as the 1st ranked contestant) means she cannot compete for Miss World or International. She can be appointed instead a runner-up.  Henceforth, I see no problem for Binibini for not allowing any contestant, whoa re stunningly beautiful, to compete at a very ripe age of 26.

I remember Miss Earth used to publish that their min-max age is 18-25. But when Polish-Venezuelan Francys Barraza Sudnicka was sent by Poland in 2006, Carousel allowed her to compete. Sudnicka during that time was 26, almost nearing 27 years old.

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The Mead-Hahn case is really something. There has been a double standard.

At any rate, I did not find Regina Hahn equally stunning as her mother,  Chiqui Brosas, who is one of my most favourite beauty queens of all times. I find Regina Hann anorexic, straight-bodied, old-looking and outdated in fashion.

I just wonder how Hahn and even Vanessa Johnson and other undeserving semifinalists beat the stunner Carisheila Kuijpers, who is the bet of almost all Venezuelan, Mexican, Puerto Rican and American pageant fans.

Oh well, Binibini is very good at having ambassadors and local celebrity judges who does not know the standards of international beauty pageant at all.

What does Richard Gomez know about the current standrads of Miss U and Miss World? What does Regine Velasquez knew about those pageants as well… What about Marian Rivera who cannot even speak straight English sentence easily? what about the Egyptian ambassador? The Italian ambassador? This is another issue. I’ll take this up in another blog topic…

The Hahn case only proves the claim of many that Binibini is somehow ‘RIGGED’.

My take on Hayden Kho – Katrina Halili Sex Scandal Brouhaha

This is my very first blog….

I decided, after quite sometime, to create a blog in order for me to go with the tides of the contemporary times. I actually created blog accounts on other blog sites but such accounts has been litearlly dormant after I created it. Hence, this is my very very first blog posting…

The Hayden Kho sex candal, this is the best word to put it since Kho himself is the ‘lead role’ in the series of sex videos he himself took.

The main issue here is the videocapturing of the intimate moments between Kho and Halili, that:

1. Katrina might not know the lovemaking was videotaped, or;

2. Katrina might know the lovemaking was videotaped.

Whether or not, Ms. Halili knew that there was videocam on, no one has the right to publish or exhibit the intimate video between the two. Whether Ms. Halili agreed to videotaped the sex scence, it does not per se conveys that Ms Halili okayed with the exhibiting of it. Thus, she complains. She has the very right to complain.

With the Kho-Halili video, there were two versions. One is the non-sexual video (which is mainly the singing and dancing scene, both Kho and Halili in intimate apparels)[we refer this as KH Video#1] and the other one is the sex scene itself {we refer this as KH Video #2]. Notice that, the two videos are taken on a different date and/or with different camera:

a. KH Video #1 is a bit clearer than the KH Video #2. The latter is blurry and obscure. This only pertains that the two videos are taken with different cameras,  and most probably on a different dates.

b. KH Video #1, Ms. Halili was aware of the videocapture, since she herself was talking to the camera.

c. KH Video #2. Ms. Halili most probably is not aware of the videocapturing. It can be noted that this is most probably taken on a different date than the first video. Note that Kho was fixing the cam before Ms. Halili entered the scene, which Kho repeatedly go to and from the camera several times fixing the focus and angle.

 

On other videos, it was very evident that Kho secretly videotaped the sex scenes with other girls. Very evident are the videos with Maricar Reyes and the un-named teenage Brazilian model.

It has been reported that Hayden Kho has at least 40 sex videos compilation.

Then what can we say about Mr. Kho? Is this just a so-so? This is an act of voyeurism! A pervert.

The main issue here is the secretly videotaping sex scenes. Kho being the prey, the girls being the predator. This is a very typical example of voyeurism..similar to pedophilia and other sexual disorder.

The publication, uploading and tri-media posting of this video is another issue. Whether Kho or someone else was the cultprit, Kho is still culpable for all the violations. Kho was the one who did the videotaping.

Atty. Adel Tamano, if I am not mistken with the name, laywer of Dra. Vicki Belo, the ex-girlfriend (or girlfriend) of Mr. Kho says , in a Friday May 22, 10PM presscon, there is even a video of Kho-Belo lovemaking. This statement is very contoured and tailored. The fact Belo, as earlier mentioned by Kho as one of the only three persons having harddrive copies of all his (Kho’s) sex videos, apart from Eric Johnston Chua and another person, has been summoned as a possible culprit for the posting or distribution of the videos. This move is to clear Belo as the culpable person. 

Belo has the very reason to release these videos. Belo might think that this is one way of getting back to Halili (and other girls) for dating (or sexing up) with her boyfriend Hayden Kho while they were still together. Johnston Chua also has probable reasons to release the videos in order as well to get back at Mr. Kho, being Kho’s former bestfriend. The third person is still quite obscure.

Belo telling the press that there would not have been any video if no one has dared to do it with somebody else’s boyfriend. Is this a right statement from a certified professional? A cosmetic surgeon indeed. Belo may have forgotten that, relationship or prohibited relationship or any type of relationship is consensual. It is a union of two minds, agreeing to a common thing. Halili may have been wrongm, but Kho is also definitely wrong. Belo’s statement only connotes that ‘Hey, it is Katrina’s fault dahil siya naman ang naglandi sa may girlfriend na tao’. Thence, Katrina deserve to be ditched into mud by these scandals.

What kind of judgment was that? That it is okay for Ms. Halili to be decried and humiliated in public just because she had a forbiden affair? The what about Kho? That it is okay for Kho since he is a male specie and that he had nothing to lose with all the video scandals? That in a chauvinist society and in a double standard community, a man has nothing to lose hence, can easily be forgiven?

One cannot rectify a wrongdoing with another one. One can never put into proper judgment for a wrongdoing with an erroneous verdict.

What is Vicki Belo thinking? Mr. Kho is a sick man. She is pushing herself to a sick man.

I couldn’t understand better, as well, the point of Hayden Kho’s mom, except that she is Hayden’s mother. but her public statement only puts her son into a deeper and filthier ditch. Mrs. Kho’s way of thinking and way of talking only shows where Hayden has come from with all his sickly attitude and very poor judgment. Let me put it in Filipino. Ang nanay pala ni Hayden Kho ay kunsintidora sa mga maling gawain ng anak. A very typical attitude of parents residing in shanties or depressed communties, or those mentally-challenged parents.

Let us say Katrina is the one feeding Hayden with ecstasy or drugs. How influential is an undergraduate young lady  at early 20s to sway a professional in his late 20s? And even if Katrina pushed Hayden to have drugs, the decision to be dope or not is still Hayden’s. It is a two-way thing.

But that allegation needs to be proven in proper forum. Ms. Halili is willing to submit to a drug test. if she is negative this will vindicate her.

Mrs. Kho’s stance is outrageous. She is also a woman, a daughter, a mother and a human being. In her desperate move to clear her son’s name, she bashed Ms. Halili thinking that would vindicate her sick son. does Mrs. Kho forgotten Katrina is also a female specie? Does Mrs. Kho forgotten that Ms. Halili also has a mother. She could have been more objective. But then again, she is Hayden Kho’s mom.

The main issue here is the voyeurism…more than 40 sex videos secretly taken. Videos taken  by the predator without the consent of the female preys.

And who do we think is the victim here? The coin only has two sides. There are only right and wrong. Nothing more.

What are we going to tell our kids about this? That it is okay to abuse women thorugh discreet videocapturing intimate lovescenes? and that it is okay to make sex ith just any girls? that it is okay to distrbiute secretly captured sex vidoes?that if one has been wrong in having an affair with a committed person (legal or not), such person deserved to be humiliated instead of forgiving the person andf teaching the same person of the rigth way of life?

Katrina Halili only flawed on her affair with Hayden Kho. she admitted it and she was sorry. She hurt Vicki Belo. Shen she admitted it, she already is paying the price of mass vindiction that she is not a role model-type of a lady. She was way too brave to saccept such. But does she deserved to be abused or being get back through the release of the sex videos?

And what about the other girls? some might have been taken way before the Kho-Belo relationship. DO they deserve this very humiliating scandal?

Hayden Kho, Vicki Belo, Mrs. Kho… there is only right and wrong in this world. If you wronged, you should apologize. And when you apologize, you do not justify the wrong doing.

There is nothing wrong with apologizing. As the scripture says “Mapalad ang mapagpakumbaba sapagkat sila’y kakasian ng Panginoon”.

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My final words on this, and what I want for this case to end:

1. Wants Hayden Kho be stripped off his professional license as a cosmetic surgeon.

2. Wants Hayden Kho to be jailed.

3. Wants Vicki Belo to apologize to all the girls victimized by Kho. I want Belo to ditched Kho and move on with her lifel this would be best for her. There are lots of beautiful boys and men other than Hayden Kho.

4. Wants Hayden Kho’s mom to fee the remorse as well and apologize to the victims and their families.

5. Wants Maricar Reyes to come out as well, so that the issue would not be wrongly wasyed on Ms. Halili,  but on the general context of abuse of women.

 

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