"Diskarte" will only take Filipinos for as far as they can throw. Which isn't too far.
Ngl, it's a terrible mindset because it makes us the worst kinds of opportunists; people who would try to find ways to look correct even when we're in the wrong.
Imagine if Liza never left Philippine media. She could’ve stayed stuck doing the same corny love team movies forever. Instead, she spoke up, got called disrespectful and ungrateful, now she’s one of the lead voices in the first Filipino Hollywood animated film, Forgotten Island🥹
“Authors, please use easy words in your books” is a sentence designed in a lab to upset me. You only learn by reading things that challenge you. This idea that we should only ever be exposed to things we know already is deeply incurious and anti-intellectual.
also our social culture is matriarchal but the entire system is somehow a misogynist patriarchy. Its a mix. Its our PRECOLONIAL culture surviving still clashing with the forced colonial identity given to us by our oppressors. I suggest we turn gay and make women fully rule ✨😆
Your mothers’ and grandmothers’ lives do not revolve around your existence. They have experiences from before you existed that they wouldn’t trade for an extra ten years with you, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Go have your own diva
The entire point of the movie was that he was NOT the unfuckable dork he thought himself to be and he could've just dated her if he'd not been totally self-cucked. As MANY OF YOU are
Barker did say he had Inde Navarrette do two different takes, one where Nikki is interested in Bear & one which she isn't & mixed the two takes to make her feelings purposefully vague because whether or not she was, the choice inevitably gets stripped away from her
When he learns that she's SUFFERING due to the wish, and she literally asks him to KILL her to end her suffering
His response is "what's so bad about being with me?"
That should immediatly tell you how much of an asshole he is