YES!!! IN YOUR FACE YESSSS!!!

(I just HAD to reprint this article, found in the ff. link:

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/news/view_article.php?article_id=51762

because it was just so head-on-the-nail-on-the-coffin RIGHT!)


Statue of urinating man in g-string causes uproar
By Vincent Cabreza
Northern Luzon Bureau

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines-- A web log video featuring a statue of a urinating man in g-string, which has been on display at a Baguio restaurant for years, has not amused United States-based Igorots.

They have been sending outraged messages to Philippine officials, friends and families after discovering the video on the web.

The restaurant on Upper Session Road here has been attracting tourists because of its collection of statues of Igorot men and women.

Tourists are familiar with the restaurant because of its life-sized statues of former president Corazon Aquino and the late Jaime Cardinal Sin.

But the statues that have driven foreign-based Igorots to protest cannot be seen from the roadside.

The video clips on the Internet show a statue of a man in g-string who is apparently urinating on a wall.

A signboard with the phrase "Bawal umihi dito (Urinating here is prohibited)" is posted on the wall.

Restaurant employees declined to comment, saying they were unaware that their décor had drawn this much flak.

An e-mail was sent to Commissioner Eugenio Insigne of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples on February 22.

"Rather than passing inconsequential ordinances like forcing businesses to have English signs, it is things like this that the Baguio City council should be looking into," said the letter writer, Bill Billig.

"My God, this restaurant is in Baguio which used to be the domain of the Ibalois and which still has a very significant number of Igorot residents, and the owners of this restaurant are apparently getting away with this?"

He added: "Are we going to allow this restaurant to piss at us in our own backyard? Maybe we should all go to that restaurant and collectively pee at its doorstep in protest."

Some foreign-based Igorots acknowledged that the statues were indeed a joke.

"If you wish to demolish stereotypes, you should not just be too eager to demolish false or unfair ascriptions; you must also have the balls to accept the truth, even if it puts you, your family, your clan, your community, or your nation in a bad light," went one article posted on the Sandati weblog.

"I am not a sculptor, but if I say I get lucky and get to finish a book that partly details bad things that Igorots do, would you kill me?"

"Get a grip of (yourselves). Take off your rose-colored glasses. You don't like anyone pissing you off by pissing on walls? Teach them (every one of them, not just Igorots or Filipinos) not to. How do you teach them? Put up statues just like this everywhere."