Category: Society

Why Filipinos are not ready to fully embrace ‘gay rights’

February 24, 2016 benign0 46 Comments

Any discission on the future of the “gay rights” movement in the Philippines has to start with the teachings of Filipinos’ Christian faith — because, at the moment, religion is stubbornly baked into Filipinos’ sense of identity. But, Christian teaching in general — and Catholic dogma specifically — categorically lists homosexuality and its derivative lifestyles…

Civics, Culture, Lifestyle, Religion, Society

A message to Filipinos who plan to celebrate the EDSA People Power ‘revolution’ anniversary

February 23, 2016 benign0 29 Comments

I find them funny, these articles, blogs, and Facebook posts that together mount a futile effort to trumpet the dubious “achievements” of Yellow-branded “democracy” over the last 30 years. Authors of these hilarious articles make the whole circus sound colourful and peachy only because they apply a low bar as a baseline for measuring “progress”….

Development, Society

Why Jessica Zafra fails in her crude attempt to defend ‘LGBT rights’

February 22, 2016February 23, 2016 benign0 54 Comments

Jessica Zafra, in her recent Interaksyon.com article Shut the f-ck up, idiots fails to elevate the debate. Sure, perhaps she might feel she is surrounded by idiots who hold supposedly bigoted views about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. However Zafra loses, because she had launched herself into an amusing tililing rampage against…

Lifestyle, Media, Society

Has the same sex marriage proposition pushed gay rights activism too far?

February 21, 2016 Add 33 Comments

Well, you can dress ’em up, but you can’t take them anywhere. On one side of the ongoing polemics is one who has the “urge for power”. He wants to be a Senator. At the same time, he is an internationally famous boxing champ, a Born Again minister, a PBA playing coach, a TV show…

Civics, Religion, Science, Society

Get Real Manny Pacquiao And Vice Ganda! You’re BOTH Naked Emperors!

February 20, 2016 Grimwald 25 Comments

I’m more than a little disappointed that there are still a lot of you who failed or outright refused the point of my previous article. I find it sad that, even when I made it clear what I was talking about, some of you still assumed all kinds of things and insisted that I was…

Culture, Government, Media, Religion, Society

Does One’s Right to Free Speech End Where Someone’s Feelings Begin?

February 20, 2016February 20, 2016 Hector Gamboa 21 Comments

So in my last article, I suggested the importance of tolerance. I suggested that at the end of the day, this whole homosexuality and homophobia issue that seems to have rocked the world in the past week is really about tolerance. Well, on second thought I may have to take a pause on that. Most…

Politics, Society

Vice Ganda’s vulgar behavior damages the image of the Philippines’ gay community

February 20, 2016December 4, 2021 Ilda 69 Comments

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community has been thrown in the spotlight after boxing champion and Philippine congressman Manny Pacquiao’s controversial statement saying they are worse than animals. While he received a lot of flak from people around the world and consequently got fired by his sponsor, shoe manufacturing giant Nike, Pacquiao also…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

The rock we keep smashing our heads with

February 19, 2016 rsurtida 9 Comments

So much for “Pinoy Pride”. The real surprise was that a lot of people were actually caught off-guard and were taken aback by what Manny Pacquiao said. You’d think people expected some suave, smooth-talking sophisto who can weasel himself out of a relatively difficult question on national TV. He may be a good boxer, but…

Culture, Media, Religion, Society