Tag: gender

Is anybody on the side of Farmers Plaza janitress Chayra Ganal?

August 20, 2019 benign0 9 Comments

For all the media attention “aggrieved” transgender person Gretchen Custodio Diez is getting, it seems nobody is giving embattled janitress Chayra Ganal fair coverage. According to the more popular account of what happened at the Farmers Plaza mall in Cubao, Quezon City last Wednesday, the 14th August, Diez, a transgender who identifies as female, was…

Lifestyle

“Bakla” does not have anything to do with sexual orientation

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 benign0 6 Comments

The word “bakla” is a derogatory term. When I was in grade school in an all-boys school, we called school mates who exhibited effeminate behaviour bakla. However, though we liberally threw the term around in the school yard, the notion of being a male person who is sexually-attracted to another male person was completely alien…

Lifestyle, Society

Gillette should decide whether “toxic masculinity” is a bigger issue than TOXIC WASTE

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 benign0 16 Comments

The buzz nowadays is around an ad disguised as a political statement fielded by razor company Gillette. The ad can be accessed via an official company post on Twitter and is captioned thus… “Boys will be boys”? Isn’t it time we stopped excusing bad behavior? Re-think and take action by joining us at http://TheBestMenCanBe.org ….

Environment

Women empowerment has made sexual harassment no longer a gender issue

October 8, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

Recent hints emerging of the less-than-wholesome corporate culture in the ABS-CBN newsroom have brought to fore this confronting topic. Women have always been seen to be the “victims” of society’s power games — an idea that owes its persistence to the position of power men commanded over much of human history. But with the expansion…

Society

Some Thoughts on LGBT Issues after the Colorado Baker’s Win

June 12, 2018June 12, 2018 ChinoF 38 Comments

Lately, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the baker in Colorado who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple isn’t liable for anything. The ruling left the question of whether it was bordering on religious discrimination. But for me, it isn’t. Establishments have the right to refuse to give service to customers for…

Culture

Women who broke the law like CJ Sereno et al should stop playing the Woman Card and face the consequences

March 10, 2018 Ilda 8 Comments

If we are to believe members of the Opposition, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is anti-women and is targeting women in government and media who are critical of him. To demonstrate this, they created a list of women he is supposedly harassing and bullying into silence. The list includes Supreme Court Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno, current…

Media, Politics

In Philippine politics, women should NOT “woman up”. They should MAN up.

March 7, 2018March 7, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

“Tought leaders” of the Philippine Opposition don’t do their cause any favours by constantly playing the Woman Card whenever they feel offended. Real feminists, after all, fought hard for “gender equality”. By that, we presume, women would like to be on equal footing with men. I wonder if they really know the core essence of…

Politics, 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