Tag: gender

Highlighting that Christine Dacera was in an all-male party is NOT “victim blaming”

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 benign0 4 Comments

In overthinking the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Philippine Airlines flight attendant Christine Dacera, Inquirer columnist Hyacinth Tagupa in her piece “It’s a tragedy, but…” inadvertently backward-reasons her “analysis” from prescribed woke dogma and, as a result, arrives at a flawed thesis on the matter. Tagupa’s brainwave is encapsulated in this single paragraph of…

Crime, Society

REAL gay people don’t deceive prospective partners

September 12, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

We keep being told that the Gay Movement is all about everyone’s right to be accepted for who they are. The movement has been successful because gay people are now recognised not just for their achievements but, more importantly, also for their identity. The latter is important because we now supposedly live in a society…

Lifestyle, Society

Will “equality” and “acceptance” really make gay people happy? Probably not.

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 benign0 5 Comments

This, it seems, is the underlying premise of the “Gay Movement”. An entire industry, a vast landscape of political agendas, and lucrative businesses have been built around this debatable premise. Marketers and brand managers have gotten behind the rainbow flag salivating over the vast new markets it will create. Politicians got on the bandwagon and…

Lifestyle

Sister Mary John Mananzan is a big LAUGH speaking about “gender equality” and the SOGIE Bill

September 6, 2019September 6, 2019 benign0 8 Comments

What were Philippine senators thinking inviting a Roman Catholic nun to be a resource person to consult with on the issue of “gender equality” and the controversial proposed Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or Expression (SOGIE) Equality Bill? Sister Mary John Mananzan is a famous nun because she was one of those photographed “heroically” standing…

Education, Lifestyle, Religion

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

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

Bruce, Brenda and the Roots of Gender Identity

August 21, 2019 Anthony Quilon 4 Comments

When I was a graduate student at UCLA, I came across this sad and tragic story in neuroscience class of a young boy who had a circumcision that went awry. In the early 1960s, identical twins were born to a Canadian couple. Bruce was born first before his identical twin brother, Brian. When the twins…

Science, Society