Lucid Interval : Victim blaming
First posted 05:27am (Mla time) Nov 15, 2005
By Rowena Guanzon
INQ7.net
WOMEN’S groups, including the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-Asia Pacific and the Women’s Crisis Center Inc., are keeping a vigilant eye on the rape case filed in Olongapo City by a 22-year-old woman against six US marines. People are watching the progress […]

Lucid Interval : Spliced for life
First posted 06:25am (Mla time) Aug 16, 2005
By Rowena Guanzon
INQ7.net
THERE is a saying that “whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad with power.” In the case of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s loyal henchmen, that should be shortened by omitting the last two words. Maybe the megalomania toxins in Malacañang […]

Note the victim blaming - Rbing
From: Robert Goldman
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:53:44 +0800
To: Viewpoints
Subject: BETA FEEDBACK Stop the emotionalistic nonsense, Rowena
Name: Robert Goldman
Email: hlcinc2002@hotmail.com
Country Code: 240
Area Code: 401
Number: 5346
Address: USA
Story: http://news.inq7.net/viewpoints/index.php?index=2_id=55837=34
Message: Oh boy. So sure, so certain, that everybody agrees with your disparaging comments on President Bush, and on the soldiers fighting […]

Jason Moore
wrote
I too feel that the
marines should be prosecuted in the philippines for
this case. If it were a
training accident, then i think perhaps things might
be different, but this
is no accident. Like many people worldwide, crimes
against women and
children committed by men truly anger me like
nothing […]

An American man wrote me an email saying that I am a leftist after my article “Tell it to the (US) Marines was published in INQ7. I told him that I am not but if I were, I would be proud of it.
He said that we should stop all the “emotional nonsense,” which makes me […]