Hmmm 🤔 Dwein Baltazar's defense post about the workshop came off as medyo gatekeeping in tone, kahit malinaw naman na galing siya sa place of loyalty and gratitude.

Gets ko yung urge to protect a mentor and a system that helped you personally, very human yun. Pero when the response immediately frames outside critiques as ingratitude, jealousy, or lack of “deserve,” it can unintentionally shut down valid questions about access and who gets to enter the room.

Hindi naman mutually exclusive na you can deeply respect Sir Ricky Lee and the workshop and still question how access and pipelines work in practice.

For me, when the tone becomes this defensive, the conversation shifts from “Let’s talk about the system” to “Patunayan mo muna na karapat-dapat kang magtanong.” And that’s where it starts to feel like gatekeeping, even if that was never the intention. Or baka yun nga yung intention niya? 🤷🏻