Category: Lifestyle

Rubbish-littered Manila NAIA Terminal 3 airport lounge tells the real story

October 25, 2014October 25, 2014 benign0 221 Comments

A photo of a waiting lounge littered with rubbish in Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) has caught the attention of many people and is making the rounds on social media. The photo was originally posted by former Philippine Bureau of Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon on Twitter with the caption: NAIA 3…trash left behind by…

Civics, Culture, Development, Environment, Lifestyle, Society

I am Joseph Scott Pemberton

October 25, 2014 benign0 72 Comments

I am Joseph Scott Pemberton. I’ve been that boy in the wrong place at the wrong time. I’ve been in dark alleys, rented rooms, and in the company of strange women. But I was lucky (like you’ve been lucky) that the person who could have harmed either of us just didn’t harm us at that…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Religion, Society

Preliminary hearing on Jeffrey Laude death snubbed by Pemberton, Filipino ‘activists’ furious!!

October 22, 2014 benign0 22 Comments

As expected, US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton was a no-show in yesterday’s preliminary hearing on the death of Filipino transgender Jeffrey Laude in which he stands accused. Pemberton’s legal counsel Rowena Garcia Flores reportedly argued that her client’s presence was “not required” and that he “was still studying the complaint against him.” In response, chief…

Crime, Government, Lifestyle, Society

No, his name is NOT Jennifer. It’s Jeffrey

October 21, 2014October 21, 2014 benign0 54 Comments

Sure. As Marrian Pio Roda Ching asserts in an Inquirer article, Jeffrey Laude’s “right” to be addressed by the alias “Jennifer” is all about his “right to identity and to self-determination” as stipulated in a certain body of work called the “Yogyakarta Principles” where Article 3 supposedly stipulates, that these assertions of “identity” constitute every…

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#HereWeGo! Stuff to occupy Filipino kids’ minds #NgayongSemBreak

October 21, 2014 Kate Natividad 9 Comments

It’s the semestral break in the Philippines! Filipino students refer to it by its obvious abbreviation, “sembreak”. With much of the Philippines’ youth now free from the oppression of paper deadlines, exams, and 7 a.m. classes, what are they to do with all this free time? In the age of ubiquitous internet access, social media,…

Crime, Education, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

Jeffrey Laude was 7 years older than US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton, just 19 and a recent hi-school grad

October 17, 2014October 17, 2014 benign0 77 Comments

Turns out United States Marine Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton is just 19 years old and graduated High School only last year. In a report published by the American news site South Coast Today, Pemberton is described by his uncle as “a really good kid” while a neighbour called him “a friendly person” and…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Society

The transgender life: It’s not just about becoming a girl, it’s about becoming an ATTRACTIVE chick!

October 16, 2014 benign0 21 Comments

One thing that the brouhaha over the murder of Jeffrey Laude (allegedly by Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton of the United States Marine Corps) revealed is that Filipino transgenders live in legal limbo in the Philippines. No less than the Philippine Supreme Court is reportedly “confused” over how to regard them. The publisher of…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Politics, Science, Society

Was Jeffrey Laude a prostitute who concealed his true gender in the practice of his trade?

October 15, 2014October 19, 2022 benign0 140 Comments

As expected, gay activists are now all over the case of the murder of transgender Jeffrey ‘Jennifer’ Laude. According to Benjamin Pimentel who wrote about the incident in the context of Gay Pride in his Inquirer piece Death of a Filipino transgender, “Despite progress and victories on many fronts, violence is still a frightening reality…

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