Tag: feminism

Filipinos prefer to cheer kids who shoot hoops over kids who shoot soldiers

December 4, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

If the Communist Party of the Philippines has not gotten the memo yet, let me spell it out. Their “revolution” is dead. In this day and age of instant digital gratification and even more potent tribalism on exhibit via social media, little girls being “martyred” in a jungle “revolution” simply can’t compete with the glitz…

Lifestyle, Politics

Duterte’s critics should get an award for being inconsistent

November 3, 2017November 3, 2017 Ilda 2 Comments

The Philippine Opposition, which consist mainly of the Liberal Party, its supporters, and allies, deserve an award. They deserve an award for trying. They are trying hard to paint a picture that the country is all “doom and gloom” under President Rodrigo Duterte. They are also trying hard to paint themselves as “victims” of oppression….

Politics

Filipino feminists like Risa Hontiveros had abandoned Mrs Patricia Bautista

August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

In most modern 21st Century liberal democracies, victims of rape and harassment are encouraged to blow the whistle on their abusers. After all, abusers won’t be punished unless someone points the police and the justice system in the right direction to make resolution happen. Feminists, in particular, are supposedly in full solidarity with their females-in-arms….

Politics, Society

Filipinos are not safe while current VP Leni Robredo is in power

March 30, 2017March 30, 2017 Ilda 53 Comments

Women who use The Woman Card – the act of claiming they are being victimised because of their gender – so liberally are disappointing and do not help advance the real issues rational women are fighting for. One woman who quite often use The Woman Card is current Vice President Leni Robredo. She claims that…

Politics, Society

Sec Gina Lopez faces off with miners while VP Leni Robredo, well, holds ANOTHER press conference

February 9, 2017February 13, 2017 benign0 7 Comments

As expected, Vice President Leni Robredo, in her recent press conference remains stuck in issuing motherhood statements about President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. So much for the symbol of “woman power” she was put up to by her social media fans. Unfortunately for Robredo, that ill-thought-out branding no longer flies — not with the…

Environment, Government, Media

Inequality is what makes the world an interesting place to be human

February 2, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

That meme where feminists in other countries are shown dressed in military gear with guns locked and loaded looking really badass while American feminists are shown looking all hip, hedonistic, self-indugent and, well, millennial. Priceless. Open this week’s issue of TIME and get a load of how many pages were devoted to that Women’s March…

Development, Economy, Environment, Society

Americans need to come to terms with their new reality under President Donald Trump

January 24, 2017 benign0 25 Comments

The trouble with Liberals is that they are too open-minded. They are, they themselves insist, “pro-choice”. And this is why liberalism is incompatible with the human condition — becuase human beings suck at coping with an abundance of choice. This is where conservatism resonates — it offers a straight path (in the real sense of…

Civics, Government, Politics

What did the women in the #WomensMarch rallies REALLY want?

January 23, 2017 Kate Natividad 13 Comments

Ahhh, the perenial question: What do women want? I hear a lot of my male friends ask this question. It seems we like to spend a lot of time and energy verbalizing our issues and then get upset when our partners contribute to the conversation in their usual infernal “solution mode”. The boys, of course,…

Lifestyle, Politics