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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

Death of PAL flight attendant Christine Dacera sparks torrent of spurious outrage on social media

January 5, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

As expected, the story of the alleged rape and death of Philippine Airlines flight attendant (FA) Christine Dacera (reportedly on New Year’s Eve) is making waves on social media. Fuelling the rage are the seeming circumstances surrounding Dacera’s death. According to news sources, she was the only female participant in a party held in a…

Crime

Why “Make Love, not War” Doesn’t Work

April 8, 2019 ChinoF 28 Comments

Obvious political shill Jim Paredes’ recent shenanigan drew a lot of perhaps well-deserved criticism. A supposed “moral paragon” does the equivalent of a sex tape online. His defenders say, hey, it’s his business. But why post online a business that should be discreet? Or, why “record your love,” as the movie Parenthood puts it, and…

Culture

International media should move on from Duterte’s rape joke and focus on the hard tasks ahead

May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 Ilda 28 Comments

Australian morning show Sunrise featured a segment on presumptive Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to discuss his win in the recent presidential elections. The show had an Australian political analyst named Dr Keith Suter as guest who speculated on what a Duterte President would be like. Even before he was introduced, the two hosts of the…

Culture, Media, 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

Stupid legacy: PNoy threat to launch ‘people power’ if Duterte and Marcos Jr win

April 20, 2016 Add 148 Comments

I showed the “Duterte rape joke” video to guys not in the internet on three occasions, family drivers, tryke drivers, construction workers. The reaction was unanimous that Rodrigo Duterte (DU30) was not cracking a necrophiliac joke, nor was he promoting rape. They interpreted “dapat na-una mayor” as “tarantado kayo, mas tarantado ako”. It was to…

Government, Politics, Society

The re-education of Rodrigo Duterte

April 19, 2016 Ilda 63 Comments

They say it takes a village to raise a child. In Davao City Mayor and Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte’s case, it might take an entire nation to help him watch his tongue. Since announcing his candidacy, 70-year old Duterte has been experiencing a public berating, probably for the first time in his life, for his…

Crime, Culture, Politics, Society

Why do Filipinos find rape jokes so hilarious?

April 19, 2016April 19, 2016 benign0 21 Comments

The interesting thing about democracy is that it introduces inconvenient transparency to societies that adopt it as a form of government. In a democracy, the truth comes out in many ways unexpected. In the Philippines which is in the midst of election campaign fever, many such uncomfortable truths are coming out. One of them is…

Crime, Culture, Media, Society