Tag: psychology

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

You don’t need “Big Data” and “woke” culture to predict election outcomes in the Philippines

May 29, 2019May 31, 2019 benign0 6 Comments

There are two key things Americans learned from the unexpected victory of Donald Trump in 2016: (1) traditional pre-election polling is no longer reliable and (2) Google search activity provides better insight into voter preferences than social media engagement. That these lessons were mainly learned in hindsight accounts for much of the shock everyone felt…

Culture, Politics, Society

Top 3 Conspiracy Theories About President Aquino

June 15, 2016 Grimwald 17 Comments

Davao Mayor Rodrigo “Roddy” Duterte has yet to take the position of president in Malacanang but one can already see how hard the LP is working to put all the blame on him regarding the country’s ills even though President Aquino is still supposed to be the actual president of the Philippines. Oh well, what…

Government, Politics

Why Duterte fans continue to justify his rape joke

April 25, 2016 Roy Joseph Roberto 28 Comments

RODRIGO DUTERTE’s unorthodox language and idiosyncratic campaign style have skyrocketed his popularity to such mind-blowing proportions. The tough-talking mayor of Davao city recently drew flak for cracking a joke on the 1989 rape-slay of Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill. “She was gang-raped, (the prisoners) had lined up for their turn. But she was so beautiful, the…

Politics, Science

On Jessica Zafra’s pseudo-psychoanalysis of Duterte’s appeal to Filipino voters’ id

April 19, 2016April 19, 2016 benign0 17 Comments

Jessica Zafra is right about the substance behind Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to prominence, of course. Duterte’s campaign appeals to the Filipino’s id. Id is one of three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud’s structural model of the psyche. Id, together with the other two, ego and super-ego, form Freud’s hypothetical mutually-counter-balancing psychical…

Culture, Media, Society

3 Things Pinoy Rom-Coms Seem To Be Hiding From Its Viewers

January 6, 2016 Grimwald 3 Comments

Now that you’ve read my latest rant about being single, it’s time we go to a different topic. While I did mention something about Pinoy romantic-comedy shows (or “rom-coms” for short), I failed to elaborate deeper into the erroneous or sometimes detrimental influences of our local rom-coms. Again, I need to say that there’s nothing…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Society

5 Changes For Political Candidacy That May Improve The Philippines

November 17, 2015 Grimwald 23 Comments

With Alma Moreno’s video showcasing her incompetence with her interview with Karen Davila becoming viral, I think it’s time we got to the point and told our readers (and the powers that be) of what we want to happen. You see, based on what we’ve seen so far, majority of political parties harbor their fair…

Culture, Development, Government, Politics, Religion, Society

Necropolitics: How Filipinos suffer from a bad case of Jesus Issues

October 6, 2015 benign0 36 Comments

When will Filipinos stop being such pussies about their future? At the moment, they are in the midst of a frenzy to nominate people who are all about the past and offer nothing to the future. As if it weren’t enough that Filipinos find some sort of perverse comfort in dwelling in the past, they…

Culture, Politics, Religion