hate boys ft. Geminis

“HOW big is your chest?”

Men will be men. No, Boys will be boys. That’s not a man, that’s a boy. A real and proper man wouldn’t say that.

We filter social media as a fun website for having a loophole of virtual adventures. Connect, create, discover. That's just the tip of the iceberg, so hit yourself with reality.

Meeting someone online and trying to build something with them can be tough as the internet is a vast place in its own world. In short, there are a lot of creeps.

His name pops up again in a bubble through notifications. See? Creeps like him.

“Show me your body.”

Jesus Christ.

He didn’t earn a picture, he earned a sigh. Every chat bubble that appeared next contained vulgarity and a missed call. Blocking is the only source of relief. If only we could block people like these in the real world.

So, he was at the legal age of twenty, five foot eleven tall, and a Christian. He had second Timothy, chapter two verse twenty-two copy pasted in his bio, claiming to be a devoted follower of Christ.

“Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” This chapter from the Bible is all about turning from evil, from the sin of lust. This chapter from the bible was his bio.

Clearly, he does not read, nor follow. All words, no action. Behind the screen, he’s actually a boy who can’t keep his hands to himself, a boy who succumbs to erotism.

Was this what a ‘believer’ exerts? What did he learn in church? Did he listen from one ear and out the other?

At this point, God was only used to cover his true self. He was a monster, a devil, a scum.

Adding more to the irony, he was a gemini. Symbolizing twins, geminis have a notorious reputation for being two faced. The boy was a saint on the outside and a devil on the inside.

That was a fourteen year old’s experience on social media.

Twenty-first century, where the internet can now be easily accessed by children. Parental control for what? You could keep a close eye on your kid, turn the parental filter on, and they still somehow uncover the dark depths of the internet.

I’m lucky that the education I get is the standard, but my mind wanders off to the others. The ones who get the end of the stick.

What about them?

There’s always a fault, an underlying issue at the tip of your nose. The quality of the education in the Philippines is questionable. There were laws specifically for education, but it’s not deficient. Our law in education when it comes to budget allotment was not being fulfilled.

Instead of giving solutions, they keep giving complications.

There are still Filipino children who are unable to go to school, despite it being accessible for everyone, with the main reason being their status of living.

There are many children in the Philippines birthed and cradled by poverty. Over 5.6 million Filipino families were recorded to be living in dire impoverishment. Families poorer than a mouse. Due to this, there are children who choose child labor instead of educa- tion, because they need money.

The pandemic had a big impact on the education system in a two year period. Some had to stop studying due to financial problems, some struggled to adapt. And ultimately, everyone was affected in a negative way.

If we want to have a high standard of education, public schools shouldn’t be an exception, the infrastructure should still be adequate, but it’s evident that it’s undone— they got the bottom of the barrel.

Budget allotment? That’s a funny joke.

Corruption is a disease that we long to uproot, the only way is to restructure the government’s entirety. The fortune for the people is to be stuffed into the pockets of greedy officials.

The education here is much like an old apple, it rots and is huddled by swarms of mosquitoes that seem to enjoy its rotting nature. It can be fixed if it was replaced by a newer and fresher apple that can be given to the people, but still there's no action regarding this metaphor.

The funds that are supposed to go to schools instead goes to the military. Our priority should be education. Education creates support for the people as they are the backbone of our cultural and societal world in the Philippines.

The military is already there, it’s already established. But to establish brilliant minds, it’s an investment.

STORY BY KRISTINA CZARINA TRINIDAD

It's daunting, because being underage doesn’t mean you’re safe from sexualization by incels.

Social media is a pe dophile’s digital playground. Where there are young girls be ing scrutinized in a disturb ing manner. Young girls being exposed to the eyes of the damned, young girls being sexually harassed.

Young girls. Deduced as a nymphet by the eyes of the prey. This is what makes us girls.

These people do not change. Protest all you want, bring awareness, do everything. They’ll still exist, masking their true colors.

It does not matter to them if you’re feeling uneasy, violated, disrespected, or dis tressed. You do not have a voice. They view us as a freshmen generation of degenerate beauty queens, still having the audacity to ask why some women resort to misandry.

It’s all beyond fixing. Trust no one in the media. Don’t be fooled by the facades. To answer the question, my chest is big. It’s full of hatred. Because I was fourteen.