I wouldn’t normally get offended.
I can take shots. Yup – I am not referring to the liquid and alcoholic ones but the shots you take when someone tries to put you down. Shots don’t offend me easily as I serve them as much as I take them. The only difference is when the shot is done cheaply and out of context. Maybe I have misunderstood the statement but I found the statement inappropriate in the context that it was used by this lawyer-blogger or blogger-lawyer. He posted and entry and was speaking about JuicyCampus.com’s popularity among University Students here in the U.S., which is mainly a website where students can voice out gossips and rumors, or grievances about colleges and universities here in the U.S. and how it has gotten attention from University Administrators because of mean and crude comments being made on the site by anonymous visitors. Some are totally alarming because words and comments used touch on race or gender issues border lining on hate.
But as I was reading through the post (I found it because I received a ping on my WordPress dashboard), I read this statement.
Read this statement:
I went into this at length because its only a matter of time before JuicyCampus, or its clone, will reach our shores. Already there are Philippine variations on the same theme, as shown by a popular website which trashes members of Manila’s so-called “high” society. It was the anonymous messages which were the most vitriolic and full of hate.
The word website with a hyperlink refers to my post earlier this month regarding Brian Gorrell and his blog about DJ Montano and the Gucci Gang. Are you reading the context of the statement the same way I understood it? Pointing to a popular website “which trashes members of Manila’s so-callled “high” society” and the word “website” being linked to my blog seem like its point is to tell people that our blog, Chuvachienes.com’s purpose is the trash members of Manila’s so-called “high” society?
I am wondering if he made an error on his post about pointing to the proper website whom he has aptly described , or was he using our blog as a reference to direct the reader to the proper website? I wonder. Being a lawyer himself, I would think of him as very detail-oriented and articulate because the articles he writes about are within the confines of rules, regulations and laws. I think that the margin of error he must allow on his post is zero. So, I question the fact that he referred to our post and called it “popular website which trashes members of Manila’s so-called “high” society” when in fact, it was not our website that contained the hundreds of negative comments about the website that he should have referenced.
Well, calling our blog popular may be a plus but injected with the incorrect statement thereafter negates the former. Like I said, I wouldn’t normally get offended but I put the learned and the professionals in different plateau as mine. They are the experts, they are the ones to educate “us”, the people.
Our blog is simply just that. A gossip blog. We do moderate our comments and we are careful on what people may or may not post as comments on this blog. If you haven’t read our Terms of Use, I suggest that you do. And besides, we didn’t think we were THAT famous, are we? 
Just a thought.
