Gabriela aims to discourage Filipinos “from the bad practice of
sharing sleazy videos” by spreading the counter-message of the “Manila
Scandal Part 2.” It hopes to “mobilize the public to use the internet
in solving one of the scourges of electronic harassment, bullying and
violence against women” by posting the video to their FB account or
website and through Twitter by using the #manilascandal2 hashtag.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
DAVAO CITY — A progressive lawmaker urged Facebook (FB) users to end
electronic violence against women (e-VAW) by adding “-Scandal” to their
last name and to change their cover photos. The move was part of the
women’s group Gabriela’s “Bury the Past” campaign.
“This will help bury real scandal videos in the results of search
engines,” Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) Representative Luz Ilagan posted
in her FB timeline.
Sex scandal videos have proliferated online, attaching stigma to
women victims. One case in point is the video involving showbiz
personalities Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili.
If the campaign against e-VAW — a new form of violence through the
electronic medium, particularly the spread of sex scandal videos —
musters enough support, seamy videos will be buried as search engines
like Google and Yahoo are disrupted.
On Saturday in Manila, Gabriela launched its interactive online
campaign action in commemoration of the e-VAW awareness week. Through
the video it produced entitled, “Manila Scandal Part 2,” the women’s
group hopes to share the “victim’s personal tragedy” and to show the
“personal as well as social costs to individual women as well as women
collectively.”
Gabriela collaborated with the award-winning advertising agency
DM9JaymeSyf to produce an output “exactly like a sequel to a sex scandal
video,” hoping to get the public’s attention especially those who like
to watch sex scandal videos.
“What our video actually shows is the story of a woman after her sex
scandal video spread. How she was shamed, expelled, disowned and how she
contemplated suicide,” the Gabriela-Philippines National Secretariat
said in its FB page.
It added, “If we get enough of our target audience to watch this, and
let them see the real implications of their actions, it can definitely
lessen the spread of sex scandal videos.”
Gabriela aims to discourage Filipinos “from the bad practice of
sharing sleazy videos” by spreading the counter-message of the “Manila
Scandal Part 2.” It hopes to “mobilize the public to use the internet
in solving one of the scourges of electronic harassment, bullying and
violence against women” by posting the video to their FB account or
website and through Twitter by using the #manilascandal2 hashtag.
“All forms of violence against women should be stopped from domestic,
street, intimate relations, electronic and the State,” Mae Fe Templa,
program head of Assumption College of Davao’s Social Work Department.
Templa said Gabriela’s campaign is effective because “it is a new
form of protest. It uses the material but with a twist to bring it
closer to what really happened to women when their identities are
exposed online for further humiliation and degradation. When their
families disown them, they tend to end their lives.”
First District Councilor Leah Librado-Yap said she believes it’s
timely to include the internet in this campaign because it has become “a
common venue for women all across the globe to be abused in every
imaginable manner.”
“Scandals involving women are often posted, viewed and spread over
the internet. To stop the proliferation of electronic violence that
targets women should be our call. This is in line with our campaign to
put a halt to women exploitation,” Librado-Yap said. (
davaotoday.com by Marilou Aguirre-Tuburan).
(Reposted from Bulatlat.com)
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL:
http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/06/how-to-stop-a-sex-scandal-women-activists-suggest-ways/
Keeping
mum over what was discussed in a supposedly “full” Cabinet meeting
owing to security reasons as the topic of discussion supposed to have
been focused on the decisions that were made by Noynoy on the China
sovereignty moves over the so-called disputed islands to which the
Philippines also claims sovereignty, was a bit too strange.
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