Some weeks ago, I received this photograph from Lainy.

Having had a good experience with photography, I felt the photo did not do justice.

Not only does it lack good portraiture, it is also overcrowded…

Having had a good experience with photography, I felt the photo has to be corrected, like this..

Now, this is a photo that would launch a thousand ships!

It makes the person the center of focus with just a little in the background for the spectator’s imagery interpretation; interpretation for the sultry and wistful demeanor of the person in this case.

If the width of the photo is given a tad more, it would accentuate the leggy-sexiness of the person.

One drawback in that photo as well as with 99 percent of Filipinas – it is that they love to wear those oversized “Owl” very dark sunshades. It hides most the facial beauty, their “double” eyelids, smiling eyes and their high cheek bones that is craved for especially by white women.

Filipina women ought to realize that NOT everything that white women wear is consummate for Asian beauty. Most white women do not high cheek bones. Hence, when a white woman wears those “Owl” sunshades, it hides that facial flaw and enhances their facial look.

WYSIWYG is a well known acronym for What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get.

But of course, young women find that sexist if men think it applies universally.

However, in a rare instance, this toddler Xyle a.k.a Morning Dew, the nephew of Lainy wholeheartedly believes it is true.

I can imagine three scenarios from that photo.

Scenario One

Morning Dew faces an impossible task to heave Tita Lainy by her feet, swing her body over his head and slam dunk her on the floor.

Scenario Two

Morning Dew experiences his first act in Voyeurism.

Scenario Three

Morning Dew and Tita Lainy are playing Doctor and Patient
Morning Dew persuades, “PUSH Tita, PUSHHHH !”
Morning Dew exclaims, “OMGGGG! Tita, it’s your poo coming out!”

Well, Reader…what do you think?

I shall try my best to write in plain English and try not to confuse the reader by sounding polemic.

The idiom, “To each his own” is said to originate from Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC), a Roman author, orator, & politician.

In Latin it is suum cuique, short for suum cuique pulchrum est.

There is a mistaken translation from Latin to English as we now know it as an Idiom, “To each his own.”

In the true meaning of the original Latin, it rather means, “In the opinion of each person, what is his is beautiful.”

This difference must be noted because as we idiomatically use the phrase, “to each his own” changes the entire meaning thereof and exposes the fallacy in how it is being used.

What we commonly know is that it means each person has the right to make choices. It is with this meaning that we often shrug our shoulders through lack of a better explanation or we take a neutral position when declaring, “to each his own.”

Whether it is said in the context of, “to each his own belief”, or “to each his own ability”, or “to each his own choice”, allow me to emphasize that one must be wary about the accuracy when using this Idiom.

It is important to know the context in which the Idiom is applied. Failure to understand what the implications vis-a-vis the context could bring about a fallacy of composition, reducing the Idiom to jargon.

What is a Fallacy of Composition?

It is when a person makes an inference from the attribution of a known matter to every one such that every one possesses the same known matter.

Commenting on the subject of Circumcission, several Bloggers gave their opinion on the matter of “to cut or not to cut” by saying, to each his own.

Taking it from there and it can be said as follows:

Every circumcission performed is a personal choice.
Therefore, circumcission is regarded for the general good.

Now even if the premise is true of each and every component of those two premises, the end result may turn out to be traumatic, irrevocably harmful and a personal mess.
Hence, to say, “to each his own” by this reasoning is incorrect.

To say “to each his own” may also be disconcerting. For example, a man leaped to his suicidal death from a multi-storey high rise building and would one say, “to each his own”?

That and many other examples may be given. So my dissertation is that when the Idiom is used without logical relevance to the context as referred to in this case, it may not only promote but it also justifies the choices made by individuals who also fall in the MOST WANTED CRIMINALS in any country.

Returning to the true meaning of its Latin origin, it means, “In the opinion of each person, what is his is beautiful.”

And may I conclude, Circumcission is NOT beautiful by any measure.

Unless and of course, there lives a man who after his circumcission, runs around town yelling, “In my opinion, my Circumcission is beautiful. Come, see!!!”

Just a little while ago, I shared to Windy Papaleng’s publication about Child Circumcision: To Cut or Not To Cut. He told me that he published a lengthy comment at that particular post which he sent to me via email.

Here it is:

For whatever reason; religious, cultural or personal genital hygiene, circumcission is a deplorable act.

If it is for religious connotation, did not God create both man and woman in His perfect Design?
Then religious fanatics like divine soothsayers add more to what is in print and claim circumcision as a symbol of the covenant between man and his Creator. Makes me think that God must be seen by these religious fanatics as one HUGE PENIS or one HUGE CLITORIS!!!

Then for those cultures that adhere to circumcision of their infants, it is because their ignorant great great great grand fathers or great great great grand mothers did it and therefore tradition must be upheld even when it is senseless to circumcise. And you might ask, why did these great great great grand fathers and great great great grandmothers circumcise their infants? It is because in the Stone Age era, these people apart from hunting wild animals, they had nothing else to do but fiddle with their infants genitals and thought it made sense to pain their infants for all the crying they made at night causing them sleepless nights.

Then you have those sick minds who think that germs only hide in the folds of human genitals. Therefore, you know the reason why. But they might as well cut off their fingers and thumbs because truly there are more germs hiding under the finger nails and thumb nails than that. They wash their hands. Why then they do that circumcision for? So my point is if they wash their hands for hygienic reasons, why they did not think of the same thing for the genitals?

And till today, stupid men and stupid women think that God’s creation of man and woman is IMPERFECT and that circumcision makes it man-made perfect

Man-made perfect? Baloney!!! Does anyone know how much mutilation and impotency has been caused on both infant boys and girls?

What about you? Were you circumcised too or not? Oh come on! Don’t be shy. Ha! Ha! Ha! If you’re a parent, would you allow your kids to be circumcised?

Windy can be very expressive on his thoughts about circumcision. And why not? He has got three sons to boost! His own experience as a Dad to his three boys can vary from every parent though. Windy comes from a Malaysian/ Chinese culture while Filipinos has got this masochistic idea about getting circumcised. 93% of Filipino males are circumcised- a percentage so much higher than the world’s rate. If you don’t get a circumcision, you’ll have to bear the brunt of silly jokes and funny tirades.

Admittedly, circumcision is considered the rite of passage for Filipinos. This may sound quite absurd but yes, that’s how some Filipinos measure masculinity. What else do we know? A good number of circumcised Filipino male specie does not even live up to the word “masculine”, if you know what I mean.

I have very high respect for Windy’s beliefs and choices about circumcision. I must say, to each his own.