"Filipina" and Filipinas on the Internet"
compiled by Perla Daly
Did you know that...
...www.filipina.com ---- is a Mail-Order Bride Site?
...www.filipinas.com ---- is Filipinas Magazine Online.
...www.pinay.com ---- was bought by Adrian Gonzales
of Icestorm Productions Web Hosting Service because he wanted to save the domain for good purposes and keep it "safe" from exploitative usage? When I approached him about it we got to talking and he donated the rights of ownership of this domain to NewFilipina's BagongPinay site. So thanks to Adrian, the domain of "pinay" now routes to our site and has been spared from more disadvantageous usage.
So now, www.newfilipina.com , www.pinay.com and www.bagongpinay.net route to this Web site.
Comments on Filipinas on the Net...
When I asked some Netizens to comment on the topic of Filipinas on the Internet I got these very interesting and eye-opening thoughts from three Pinoys:
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Ken Ilio
Web Master of Tanikalang Ginto (one of the oldest and most visited Pinoy Web sites) and PinoyLinks
www.tribo.org
www.pinoylinks.com
> ...if you go to any big search engine (like excite etc.), and do a search for Filipina ... you'll get all mail order brides as well as XXX rated sites. One X rated site has in their metafiles filipina, Filipinas, and all the other dirty words in Tagalong. It's pretty disgusting really.> Filipinas mag used to have the URL www.filipinas.com but sometimes you type just filipina ... so it brings you to the sleazy site --- so they changed it to www.filipinasmag.com ...
> Thanks for putting up the site....
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Jesse Liwag <jesse@skyinet.net>
Editor of i-Site, online Magazine
New Media Group, Sky Internet Inc.
www.sky-isite.com
www.skyinet.net:
> There's a need for magazines like yours, to give an identity online to Filipino women.
> One US magazine that I believe in is the Ms Magazine. From their beginning in 1972, they went beyond the limits of the category of "women's magazine". They offered no fashion tips, houskeeping rules, recipes, or suggestions on how to please your husband. None of that. They talked about what really mattered, like politics, health, international news, society, culture, arts--all about and for women.
> They knew that the American woman was not a quiet housekeeper in suburban America. They believed that she was more than that. More than giving the woman an identity, they gave her a forum to discuss things that mattered to her, that constituted her.
> If for Pinays only, the image or identity cannot be left to be determined by those selling sex tours in the Philippines or mail-order brides. The Filipino woman is much, much more than that - - - but she has to know this, believe in this, and fight for this. The Net is one great place to do it. You can have a hundred online magazines and websites in no time. You can create a worldwide network to support this. And in the end, when someone would search for "pinay" or "Filipina" in Yahoo!, then these sites would top the list.
> That's the way.
> Our last reader survey gave us a 58:42 ratio of males to females, which I is a good sign since when we started it was more of 70:30.
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Mila D. Aguilar
< mda@mnl.sequel.net>
Poet, Journalist, Activist,
Video Documentary Producer, Web Diva
Manila Standard / Institute for Filipino Cinema
www.phil-reporter.com/pinoytok
www.geocities.com/Athens/6029
www.sequel.net/~pinoytok
www.archipelago.com.ph
www.capwip.org
www.electionline98.com.ph
> What people don't realize yet is that computers and the Internet are some of the tools that will finally liberate both women and Asians from bondage. You see, women in general, and Asians as a set of countries and races, could never have come to the fore in the Industrial Age of Steel and big machines. These were meant for the big men of brawn.
> When electronics came in, and with the popularization of the electronics through computers and the Internet, the tools of production shifted from iron and steel machines to electronics, computers and the Internet, which are small, handy, fine, cheap, and require more mind than brawn to operate. Due to these qualities of the new tools of production, big men of brawn are not what are needed to run today's industries anymore. What are more necessary now are fine hands and minds, both of which are amply available among women, and Asians.
> Therefore -- what is the future of Filipinas on the Internet? The answer is obvious, but I hope Filipinas get there before the machos of the world find it out, and wreck our chances the way they're trying to wreck Asia's!