It was honestly a corny and unfunny movie that revealed how little Jo Koy actually understands the Filipino diaspora experience outside of using Vicks or having a tabo at home
Film executives used Jo Koy's ‘EASTER SUNDAY’ as "evidence" that Filipino stories don't sell in Western media after its underwhelming box office.
This was according to Vonne Patiag in an ABC Australia interview, who says he encountered this in later pitch meetings.
@saaranghaeyo It was a society that where rape did not exist, such was their respect for women. They did not even have a word for it until the 80s-90s. You can watch it in full here: https://t.co/YVow0ZTLjf
I recommend watching the documentary "Walang Rape sa Bontok," which talks about how rape as a concept didn't exist in an indigenous community in northern Luzon, until colonialism introduced it to inhabitants through Western soft power.
I wonder what women's rights are like here. What if we're protecting uncontacted tribes and they're doing like, systematic rape of 10 year olds or something
I get the temptation to chalk Jane Austen up as some kind of affirmative action author, but that just simply is not true. She is beloved by readers and writers alike. She invented and perfected fiction techniques that we take for granted today. Nabokov taught an entire course on Jane Austen iirc. He initially didn’t like her and then became obsessed and called people who didn’t appreciate her “bad readers”. Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem honoring her writing. Sir Walter Scott described her writing of ordinary characters as the most wonderful he ever saw. Some other writers didn’t like her, but her influence is undeniable.
‘I’M STRAIGHT BUT NOT NARROW’
Negros Occidental 3rd District Rep. Javier Miguel “Javi” Benitez has this to say after he, along with Reps. Brian Poe and Ryan Recto filed a bill seeking to make discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sex characteristics (SOGIESC) a punishable offense.
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LOOK: Michelle Dee is serving face alongside EXO’s Kai during Paris Fashion Week.
Michelle Dee also snapped a photo with "It's Showtime" host Anne Curtis at the said fashion event.
Courtesy: Michelle Dee/Instagram
This is sickening, and it happens in disaster zones everywhere. In the Philippines there are countless reports of women and children subjected to sexual abuse post-calamities. Nasa evacuation center na nga sila yet they still have to worry about predators.
mga artista ngayon, nasasanay na sa ig unfollow at notes app apology. we have a video of you sympathizing with a murderer, we need a video of you denouncing him. the apology must be as loud as the disrespect
Makabayan reps who visited the MPD say 216 were arrested, 91 are minors. Our lawyers are checking on the conditions of the detained which includes members of Bayan orgs who were also arrested during the crackdown.
“ROMUALDEZ IS TIRED ALREADY”
Surigao del Norte 2nd District Rep. Bernadette Barbers says they spoke with Speaker Martin Romualdez last night in an effort to convince him not to resign.
“What he said was he’s tired of it… of all the pressure from everyone.” @gmanews
MAYOR VICO AT THE HOUSE
Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto attends the House infra comm hearing on flood control projects on Tuesday.
Sotto recently called for greater transparency and wider access to technical documents of flood control projects. (Photos courtesy of House Committee Secretariat)
LIVESTREAM: https://t.co/BAR9V4Ct1l
First poster for the new ‘THE OFFICE’ series ‘THE PAPER’
The series follows the Dunder Mifflin documentary crew as they focus on a dying Midwestern newspaper & its reporters.