Category: Society

It’s time Filipinos DEMAND ACCESS to exclusive private subdivisions!

September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 benign0 27 Comments

The conversation surrounding the opening up of private subdivision roads to the public has been fired up again thanks to Manila’s increasingly desperate traffic situation. Indeed, it is one of those obvious solutions begging to be addressed. Big chi chi subdivisions create choke points at key entry point and junctions into and at Metro Manila’s…

Development, Lifestyle, Society

Why I Don’t Get Pride Marches and Pride at All

September 12, 2019October 3, 2024 ChinoF 15 Comments

Perhaps I’m weird, but I never got the logic of how pride marches lead to respect. To me, such marches are like being a siga (macho bully) in town, going around and demanding respect from others, and when someone does not give that respect, he beats them up. LGBTs don’t usually beat people up, the…

Culture, Society

Convicted killers and rapists released: Just another one of those Pinoy corruption things

September 5, 2019 benign0 11 Comments

Why are Filipinos so shocked about prisoners with connections getting a get-out-of-jail pass? That’s just stock-standard garden-variety Filipino way-of-doing-things at work there. According to an “intel report” quoted by Senate President Tito Sotto, “buying of good conduct points inside the New Bilibid Prison exists.” Sotto’s intel revealed Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) officials receive millions in…

Crime, Society

SOGIE Bill got the LGBTQ+ movement in trouble and also set back the Feminist movement

September 5, 2019September 5, 2019 benign0 10 Comments

One thing the circus surrounding the arrest of Gretchen Diez, a “trans” male who demanded that he be allowed to use the female toilet in a mall, proved is that women continue to bear the brunt of society’s ingrained regard for them. People who supported Diez labelled natural women who were in favour of barring…

Science, Society

Hong Kong is not China – but Beijing will CHANGE all that

September 3, 2019 benign0 8 Comments

Here is the biggest irony of it all. Hong Kong’s youth are protesting because they believe Hong Kong is special. Why do they (and the rest of the world) believe Hong Kong is special? Simple. Because it was once a British colony and, following that brief break from being Chinese, came out as a postergirl…

Government, Society

Protecting Trannies but not Ugly Fat Dudes? What gives?

August 30, 2019August 30, 2019 Hector Gamboa 6 Comments

More than two weeks have passed since tranny Gretchen Diez has been catapulted to stardom (political and otherwise). The new darling and heroine of the LGBTQ+ community has even expressed the possibility of entering into the world of politics in order to push the agenda of her fellow LGBTQ+ members. There is nothing inherently wrong…

Government, Politics, Society

Why the Modern Science of Sex and Transgender Identity Matters for Every Filipino

August 25, 2019 Anthony Quilon 11 Comments

Transgender identity has been in the news lately—and unsurprisingly so. The charged political climate of this month has yielded many contentious issues about gender and LGBT rights to use public restrooms—and it’s clear that these discussions are long overdue. But before we delve and expound on whether transgender individuals like Gretchen Diez should be allowed…

Lifestyle, Science, Society

The LGBTQ cause: how a once-dignified community became a POWER-HUNGRY lynch mob of cyber-bullies

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 benign0 11 Comments

Whereas it took the better part of 30 years for the once-fashionable Yellow “cause” of the Aquino-Cojuangco clan to turn uncool, it has taken just a matter of months for the “cause” of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual, Trans, and Queer (LGBTQ) — plus any new manufactured notions of “gender identification” (LGBTQ+x) — to run aground….

Science, Society