Sade Andria Zabala

In the Philippines beauty pageants are welcomed with enthusiastic fervor comparable to that of an Olympic competition. I will even venture to say Filipinos are obsessed with pageants and I don’t exaggerate.

Hollywood is flocking with White Feminists who range from annoying to problematic to downright toxic.

Sagittarius: When children ask the sky who they should be like when they grow up, the clouds spell out your name.

Here’s my dirty laundry in poetic form and below it are screenshots of his replies. Enjoy.

2016 was one hell of a mess.

What really makes a classic horror movie? Have a sequel.

No matter how much society has claimed to be enlightened, people still don’t understand what it is to be depressed, suicidal, anxious, or mentally ill.

I’ve never shared this experience to the public before. The only ones I’ve relayed it to are a couple of close friends, not because I think no one would believe me but because when I dig up this deeply repressed memory it still scares me shitless.

When someone torments you that person is not a life lesson in disguise – they’re simply mean.

Oh, that feeling you have there? That’s called guilt. Explore it, examine it, understand it. Don’t justify it.

We were cheating ourselves when we opened Pandora’s box without thinking, when we thought we could kiss without our teeth breaking.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m reading too much into it. But you still gotta wonder wtf the intentions are.

We need to engage in open, healthy, civilized online discussions instead of calling the people in question derogatory names to satisfy our own self-righteousness.

The people we love who leave us (or who we leave) often give us a clearer view of ourselves, whether we acknowledge it or not.

So now I’m going to stop trying, too. I’m going to stop choosing people who have stopped choosing me a long time ago.

Sure, posting your rant on social media may seem trivial, but it encourages the culture of internalized misogyny we’ve been brought up with. Unless Filipinas actively pull against the tide of cultural sexism, our feminism is for naught.

I can’t believe the Harry Potter series taught you nothing about accepting diversity, spreading love and light, and fighting discriminatory hate.

The problem with Filipinos is we’re overprotective. Not of our culture, of our identity, of our resources – but of our pride.