After seeing all the slime that's being thrown at the supposedly-hottest new blogger Dawn Yeo, I feel compelled to toss in my two cents on this issue.

Here's some background information: Dawn Yeo is one of the biggest bloggers in Singapore, and her fame rivals that of the notorious Xiaxue. She has recently won several product endorsements owing to the popularity of her blog, and of course, her beauty. Now, her former colleagues and classmates have come out into the open, saying that she was not as beautiful in the past and accused her of undergoing plastic surgery. They have demanded that she go out into the open and admit that she had plastic surgery after all.

Heck, according to the New Paper, there are now a total of fifteen sites solely dedicated to this issue. As you guys know, I'm a regular forummite at sgforums.com, and a rather intense debate has been going on over this. I managed to get links to a couple of those aformentioned sites, and the amount of slime being thrown at her disgusted me so much that I really, really have to spin a web on this.

I'll admit it: I'm not an advocate of plastic surgery for the sake of beauty either. From what I believe, we should all be contented with whatever God has created for us and not try to meddle with it at the fundamental level. Perhaps I'm being a little judgemental here, but to undergo plastic surgery for the sake of appearance is a pretty extreme form of vanity. The way I see it, plastic surgery should only be for reconstructive purposes (e.g. accident victims with disfigured appearances, etc). At the most, I'd grant leeway to those who want to alter their appearance to counter the huge amount of psychological ridicule which total jerks impose on them.  

Note that I said 'fundamental level', which in this case refers to physically manipulating the underlying structure itself of a person's physical appearance. Otherwise, I'll be throwing brickbats as well at makeup (which I don't).     

Anyway, while I don't support plastic surgery for the sake of beauty, I'm not going to mudsling those who do indeed undergo it. What they do to their appearances is their choice. It's their face, it's their body, and it's their life. We can't really be telling them how to live it.

The same goes for Dawn Yeo. I really, really don't understand what the fuss is all about. Even if she did pay for her beauty and go under the knife to attain it, that's entirely her business. I don't see why she has a moral obligation to supposedly 'come clean' and tell everyone about what she has done.

I've seen some of the extreme stuff being posted against her, and they really sicken me to the core. I can't post those postings here, for there's no way on earth am I going to tar The Web of Fudge with samples of such postings. The thing is, what have these guys got against her? What on earth did this girl do to make all those people hate her so much?

To the people who are bent on mudslinging her, I say this to you: stop whatever you're doing, and issue an immendiate apology to her. I don't understand why you should be so incredibly riled against her. If you don't like her, then don't visit her blog. Heck, block it off with a parental control program if you want to (the way I did with Xiaxue). However, to hide behind the anonymity of cyberspace and shooting her in the back this way... that's just low brow. I have a question to ask you guys: if she really is as bad as you say she is, then does backstabbing her make you any better than her? 

I only have a small inkling of what it feels like to be shot in the back by unknown strangers. The worst I've ever been faced to encounter is hurtful comments in my TAG board saying that they want me dead. Then again, I am the master of my TAG board, and I can always delete away those comments and order any other would-be jerks to buzz off. That was a one-off event, and I don't expect those jerks to come again anytime soon. I'll be ready for them if they do, though.

In case if you guys are wondering, no, I don't know Dawn Yeo personally. I write this post only because I totally abhor all this backstabbing and mudslinging that's going on.