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Mo Twister is a 14-Year Old shrimp, errr Girl

Mo Twister is a

14-Year Old shrimp,

errr Girl

Reposted from: tiyarosa.wordpress.com

Oh all these celebrities and their very important problems that we mere mortals cannot possibly begin to understand!

I thought all my energy has already been spent making a serious effort to care about Piolo and KC and the eventual coming out party that we all know will come. I was wrong, though.

Apparently, the self absorbed 14-year-old girl that calls itself Mo Twister is turning his back on Philippine showbiz and moving to New York to focus on his daughter who lives in LA. I have no idea how that will work, but I believe I’m underestimating the Apparating powers that this adolescent chick has.

The decision to leave the country came after some interesting tweets he made about abortion that pointed – unless you’re ridiculously stupid – to Rhian Ramos, the ex girlfriend.
Here are some of the tweets, courtesy of Entervrexworld:

Nov. 16: “I have a question about abortion. Should the girl ask the guy what his thoughts are and should he have a chance to stand up for the baby?”

Nov. 17: “Because no amount of inconvenience could ever justify treating the supreme creation of God with murderous contempt.”

Nov. 19: “young child, dont ever think you were never good enough. you just had no choice in the matter” and then DJ Mo replied to a friend: “@RVDOLF in a week. im nervous bud. but it has to be done. Deuteronomy 27:25/a los niños por nacer”

Nov. 20: “guy says don’t be bitter bout the overlap. She says sorry don’t be bitter too. Bitter? Tell that to the young souls killed for convenience.” – Apparently, DJ Mo found out that her ex is seeing someone else at this point. And then Another tweet on Nov. 20: “a heavy and healing dinner conversation by the poolside. Where I was taught a bit how to mourn. One of the best chats I’ve had in a while”

Nov. 22: “a pretty face doesnt mean a pretty heart” and after a few minutes he tweeted this: “you destroy the defenseless because fear is destroying your heart”
Nov. 24: “I will not protect you anymore”

When asked why he decided to leave, the DJ said he just wanted to “hibernate” since things have become so “traumatic”.

Okay, few things.

One, it’s nice to know that someone who has no problem dishing so much negative comments about any and all celebrities (and since he has an extensive vocab, his comments are much more painful) can still feel like a wittew baby when forced to accept what he’s been giving. He was a host at two celebrity talk shows where he bashed without restraint Pinoy celebrities from doing something as trivial as mispronouncing a high-class meal at a restaurant or having bad skin. Now that he’s at the end of the bashing stick, he’d like to leave please and be done with the business for a while. I bet he comes back at the end of the month when his period is over.

Second, I just hate the “murderous contempt” tweet. This asshole who probably hasn’t done anything resembling gentlemen-ly in his entire life has the gall to manipulate how people will feel about this issue by using God and murder when talking about abortion. Pregnancy and parenthood are very serious things with the former being – undeniably – more a woman’s job. While Mo Twister and Rhian Ramos should both be hit upside the head with a rolled up newspaper for being such children with their contraception (if the rumors are true), there’s no need to equate the woman’s choice on what to do with her body with murder, not to mention one done with contempt. Rhian probably regretted having slept with this asshole in the first place, and considering how hands-on he is with his own kid (not!), she probably had good reason to do what she did.

Third, why should all these be on Twitter, Mo? Have you no phone or friends? Are you ten?

Dammit.

I was going to post something funny and sarcastic, but it turned it I don’t find anything humorous about Mo and his hypocritical breakdown. And if you find the rant above too boring, the gist of it is this: Mo’s an asshole, he probably wouldn’t even look at the baby if they had one, and he should make his hibernation permanent.

Now, back to your normal programming.

Mo and Rhian—should we care?

Mo and Rhian—should we care?

“In any case, as I’ve said before, other people’s personal lives are none of our business. But since Mo (like KC) has made a private matter public, it is now fodder for all sorts of speculation and gossip.”

By: Jenny Ortuoste

With the populace still reeling from the revelations of actress/model KC Concepcion about her breakup from actor Piolo Pascual, now comes another teary scandal, this time from disc jockey Mo Twister.

A video of a crying Mo (his real name is Mohan Gumatay) was recently uploaded to Youtube. In it he alleges that his then-girlfriend, actress Rhian Ramos, had their child aborted last July 2010 in Singapore.

From his @djmotwister account, he Tweeted, “I have a question about abortion. Should the girl ask the guy what his thoughts are and should he have a chance to stand up for the baby?”

He followed this with other, more controversial Tweets: “Because no amount of inconvenience could ever justify treating the supreme creation of God with murderous contempt.” “…even the dictionary defines it, in its 2nd explanation, as monstrosity.” “Young child, don’t ever think you were never good enough. You just had no choice in the matter.”

Finally, Mo posted a photo of what presumably was his own shoulder, tattooed with the words “to the wounds that will never heal, 08/07/10.” The skin was still reddened; the ink looked fresh. (Check out www.spot.ph.)

Rhian Ramos has filed a harrassment case against Mo. She claims that his insinuation that she had an abortion violates Republic Act 9262 (Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act). She has also asked for a temporary protection order to prevent Mo from making any more such statements.

We are merely spectators in all this and have no idea, at this point, what the truth is. Did she or didn’t she? Because he certainly did.

In any case, as I’ve said before, other people’s personal lives are none of our business. But since Mo (like KC) has made a private matter public, it is now fodder for all sorts of speculation and gossip.

Is Mo’s revelation vengeance, narcissism, or simply a man in pain lashing out like a wounded tiger, regardless of whom he hurts in his turmoil?

Can any good come out of this kind of exposure of private pain?

Rather than schadenfreudenly feeding off the suffering and misery inherent in the drama, let us deconstruct the concepts that arise and allow it to flow into the river of societal discourse: in this case, the topic of abortion.

Mo raises a good question—does the father of the child have a say in an abortion? The woman usually makes the decision to have an abortion, although it also happens often that it is instigated by the man. There are many reasons why the woman would have an abortion—youth, career, lack of finances, fear of disapproval and anger of parents and family, an unwillingness or unreadiness to be a parent, and the knowledge (or assumption) that the man will not be a good father and she’ll be raising the child on her own are just some of them.

In the end, what happens is that the woman makes the choice because it is her body, and it is her right to decide what to do or not to do with that body.
But why even have an abortion when contraception would have prevented the situation in the first place?

Given that the majority of Filipinos are Roman Catholics, and that the Church wields a strong influence in politics, and that the dominant ideology embedded in this culture is based upon Roman Catholic doctrine (sorry, other kinds of Christians, Muslims, atheists, Buddhists, and those of other, little, or no faith), prevailing attitudes toward abortion and contraception consider them abhorrent and sins against God.

In fact, so inflexible are the attitudes of some sectors of society that back-door influence has been brought heavily to bear against lawmakers passing the proposed reproductive health bill, which in no way condones nor encourages promiscuity, homosexuality, teen—even child—pregnancies, or any of the other “abominations” ascribed to it by the paranoid.

Yet the behavior of teenagers—as opposed to attitudes—tells a different story. As of 2009, based on data from birth certificates, the number of teenage pregnancies in the Philippines was at 195,662, a 70 percent increase from the 114,205 in 1999. Of the 1.75 million live births in 2009, over 11 percent of those babies were born to teenage mothers.

According to the United Nations Population Fund’s 2011 annual report, the teenage pregnancy rate in the Philippines is at 53 births per 1,000 women aged between 15 to 19 - the highest among the six Asean countries.

A 2008 news article says the Philippines (where abortion is illegal) has a higher abortion rate than the United States (where abortion is legal), at 25 per 1,000 women compared to the latter’s 23 per 1,000 women. Consider also that the US has a much higher population—around 250 million in 2011; the Philippines has less than half at around 95 million.

The main drivers of the escalating teen pregnancy rate are poverty and ignorance. The RH bill would try to minimize that, through certain of its measures that would provide sex education in schools.

The discussion of sex is still taboo in many sectors of Philippine society, even if as an activity it is frequently and enthusiastically practiced (see: Philippine population, number of offspring sired by Ramon Revilla Sr.).

But these are pressing issues that people face every day. Birth control, sex, abortion—they need to be discussed, they need to be faced, because people live and die over these matters.
We have a long, long way to go. We don’t even have divorce in this country —the only one left on the planet that refuses to let people start over.

So, should we care?

Mo Twister opened up a can of squirmy things living in the dark.

We need to drag this all into the light and let clarity, logic, and reason illuminate the important life issues we have long kept on the dark side of our collective soul.