Category: Society

Detoxing from Big Corporate Social Media and a return to REAL “social networking”

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Detoxing from Big Corporate Social Media and a return to REAL “social networking”

As many of our closest followers know by now, we had recently launched GRPsupport.com (currently in BETA). It’s the equivalent of a home-cooked social networking meal with all-natural ingredients sourced from the Net’s most trusted organic digital farms and none of the artificial toxicity of the mass-produced “services” on offer in Big Corporate Social Media…

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Media, Society, Tech Talk

New #MissUniverse Catriona Gray proves Filipinos need to GET REAL about poverty

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New #MissUniverse Catriona Gray proves Filipinos need to GET REAL about poverty

The Philippines’ newly-crowned Miss Universe Catriona Gray remarked that there is “beauty” in poverty in the interview section of the pageant which was held in Manila, Philippines this year. The interview sections of beauty pageants are usually the butts of popular jokes. This time, however, Gray, one of the more widely-admired Miss Philippines personalities, drew…

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Glitz and Glamour, Religion, Society

Filipinos should seize the opportunity to define themselves on their own terms NOW

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Filipinos should seize the opportunity to define themselves on their own terms NOW

If there is something deeper that would characterise the last two to three years, it is an increased confusion around Filipinos’ sense of identity as a people. Filipinos no longer enjoy the benefit of being told who they are. This is thanks to the rise of the Net and, specifically, its killer app — social…

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Development, Media, Society

So Now A Christmas Song Is Really Talking About Date Rape

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So Now A Christmas Song Is Really Talking About Date Rape

I am finding the nearest nuclear bunker. Locally we are witnessing the simultaneous crucifixion of Maria Ressa , journalism, good manners, good looks and civilization. Abroad the #metoo movement has worked its way into banning staple holiday songs. Over the next few paragraphs I will make a case about censorship and assignment of meaning but…

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Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Society

“Wear black”?? How Katipunan Road mirrors the degeneration of Boracay Island

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“Wear black”?? How Katipunan Road mirrors the degeneration of Boracay Island

Suddenly Katipunan Road is “home” to every UAAP basketball fan and, worse, to every millennial “social justice warrior” (SJW) and her cat. Now I know what it feels like to be an indigenous inhabitant of Boracay Island whenever the LaBoracay crowd comes to town. A basketball “battle” of the Katipunan universities is a relatively rare…

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Culture, Society

Upsilon elitism is NOTHING compared to the elitism of the Ateneo and La Salle BOYS club

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Upsilon elitism is NOTHING compared to the elitism of the Ateneo and La Salle BOYS club

While we’re in the business of calling out the misogyny, elitism, homphobia, and racism in the leaked group chats allegedly originating from the “brods” of the illustrious Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity, perhaps we should step even further back and regard the full landscape of the deep nature of this “fraternity” culture. In his recent Inquirer…

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Education, Society

Though unverified, the Upsilon Sigma Phi “leaks” are EASY to believe

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Though unverified, the Upsilon Sigma Phi “leaks” are EASY to believe

Lots of buzz lately around the reported leaked group messages purportedly exposing hideous evidence of ingrained misogyny, racism, and criminal intent within the erstwhile illustrious Upsilon Sigma Phi (Upsilon) fraternity. Yael Toribio, Student Council Chair and Upsilon member in the University of the Philippines where Upsilon is based had this to say… “In this light,…

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Education, Society

Science may hold the key to understanding why Filipinos distrust one another

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Science may hold the key to understanding why Filipinos distrust one another

If there is one thing that has long baffled observers of social norms and collective behaviour, it is the predisposition of Filipinos to clanishness and distrust for one another. This lack of trust and extreme insularness that seem to be roadblocks to large-scale cooperation and organisation are what could likely be signficiantly hindering progress at…

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Culture, Society