Social media debates - who is the fairest of them all?

After the House-Senate joint meeting deliberating constitutional amendments on Tuesday, Pheu Thai MP Khattiya was heard saying she was younger and more beautiful than Democrat MP Nattaya.

There was much comparison of the two women’s photographs over the years labelled "before" and "after". The posts drew a lot of comments and were published in many mainstream media websites like Tnews, Naewna and ASTV Manager.

There are still a lot of "Shares" and "Likes" on this topic on Facebook and Pantip.com. It seems there are two different tones in the comments flying over social media, too. Messages and comments from people who support the government usually complain about a scream from a woman Democrat MP yesterday, which they said was not good social etiquette, especially in Parliament.

As for social-media users against the government – their tone and mood was quite the reverse. A lot of them complained that Khattiya’s behaviour in Parliament yesterday was rude, especially when she said the scream was like the sound of gibbons and made her feel as if she was in a zoo rather than in Parliament.

Still, most of the comments on social media and the online community focused on Khattiya’s beauty, with many people agreeing with Nattaya’s comment that women should be valued more for their brains than beauty.

Many also said the Democrat MP was much better looking than her Pheu Thai counterpart, digging out old photographs of Khattiya to show how she looked in the past.