The local media has certainly made a mountain out of a mole hill over Jack Neo’s Affair. More ink and paper have been wasted in reporting this utterly insignificant affair instead of matters of more importance, such as the proposed Constitutional changes to have more Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) and more Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs), the details of the budget debate, or even the merit of Sylvia Lim’s proposal for more concession for the handicapped on our public transports. The local media didn’t even give a more even report on the entire context of Low Thia Khiang’s alternate proposal to control the employment of foreign workers. It chooses simply to take one of his statement to completely remove the levy on foreign workers out of the context and focused on how the ruling party’s MPs ‘gang banged’ on that to make him look like an utter crackpot who doesn’t know what he is talking about.

There is of course, the matter of a church wasting $310 million to purchase into SunTec City so it can now find a place in the city to house its congregation even though it has previously built a 47-million titanium-clad monument to God Capitalism in Jurong West. Hopefully someone like Jack Neo who is a member of that congregation has contributed a large part of the $310 million.

None of the above matters other than the obsession with Jack Neo. In spite of all his awards and his seemingly family man image, I have been told by a friend who has worked with J team previously in the course of filming some of his movies, that he hasn’t been a fair paymaster. From my friend’s perspective, they have been taken advantage of, and unfairly treated.

The papers certainly made Jack Neo looked like Singapore’s equivalent of Tiger Woods even when the entire matter doesn’t even come close. While there was probably half a dozen (or was it more?) women involved with Tiger Woods, there was only one involved with Jack Neo – a cock-eyed 22-year-old model named Wendy Chong. I really don’t give a shit who else Jack Neo had tried to hit on or sexually harassed.

What is most appalling, is that the pathetic local media actually can’t tell the marked difference between having sex with those women and harassing them. The over-exposed ‘Jack Neo Affair’ isn’t even ‘Tiger Woods Lite’. Not to mention, even Tiger Woods’ affairs were nothing compared to that of Edison Chen’s. After all, while Tiger Woods’ may have had more partners than Edison Chen ever did, there are no photos (or even an alleged video) to prove any of those even took place. On top of which, Edison Chen beats Tiger Woods hands down in stupidity by keeping all the juicy stuff on his hard disk, and then sending the Macbook containing them for repairs! But what can I really expect? My impression of Mac users like him is always one who really have not a clue about IT but deliberately buy one so he can act geeky because he can afford it.

As if the lameness of the media and seriously yawn inducing drama of Jack Neo isn’t bad enough, you have one of our local politician from the ruling party making harebrained remarks like this:

I sincerely hope Lim isn’t a minister and he will never be one. There is however still a glimmer of hope for Lim if he already understand the reason behind my contempt before I start to explain it.

First of all, the comment certainly has the element which suggest that ‘men with good career development’ would have women throwing themselves at them as a fast track to personal advancement. Next, the comment has the element which suggest that ‘men with good career development’ will all succumb to treating women as play things, and they would go as far as harassing 16-year-old girls with proposal to have sex in hotel rooms, or have affair with young impressionable female staff with promises of career advancements. It maybe possible, only if you are a Chinese Emperor living in a palace restricted to commoners.

Whichever way you looked at it, this is certainly not a remark worthy of someone whose party claims to have the best talent to offer to run our little red dot of a country city. Considering the precedence of Teo Ho Pin on the losses by the town councils on minibonds, and Charles Chong’s ‘lesser mortal’ remark, such thoughtless statements seem common place and are hardly surprising at all. It is my considered opinion that the ruling party take note of such mediocre riffraff which had miraculously got past their stringent screening to be fielded as candidates and replace them quicker than someone can say ‘change underwear’.

On top of which, I wondered why Darth Dana Lam of AWARE hasn’t yet already bared her fangs and start growling and barking at a comment which denigrates and objectify women as play things. As an MP, Lim issomeone who actually has some social standing, no? Then again, this is hardly surprising… since AWARE always seem to have a more pressing and happier ‘gayer’ agenda. On second thoughts, perhaps it is already concocting another exemplary display of meaningless ideological babble with big words that would rival ‘objectification of women’. Perhaps it won’t be long before the world will be shown yet another piece of literary masturbation which serves no real purpose other than to impresses those suffering from vocabulary deficiency.

Anyway, while I certainly don’t think that the entire Jack Neo Affair is staged as some kind of publicity stunt for his latest movie, I am wondering if the deliberate playing up of it is to hoodwink us or direct our attention from some other matters that is more worthy of our attention… whatever that maybe. SPH can just give us a break from all these Jack Neo craps already!

As for Jack Neo and men like him, this following Youtube video will demonstrate an ancient technique which should be used on them to cure them of their… *erhem* ‘overly heterosexual disorder’.