{"id":258357,"date":"2020-06-17T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T15:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=258357"},"modified":"2020-06-17T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T15:06:32","slug":"hijaako-frankie-pangilinan-amplifies-youth-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/17\/hijaako-frankie-pangilinan-amplifies-youth-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"#HijaAko: Frankie Pangilinan amplifies youth voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Ben Tulfo\u2019s call to Frankie Pangilinan over the weekend, the 19-year-old remains to be a champ for the unheard voices, not letting the \u201cnaivety\u201d slapped to her bring her down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that yes, \u2018hija\u2019 as a term is constantly used in a condescending manner, especially when speaking to youth like me when we have something to say or a point to make. It kind of seems like the first instinct was to invalidate everything I was saying based upon my age.\u201d This was what Pangilinan said as she spoke in an interview with ANC on Wednesday, June 17.<\/p>\n<p>This, after she shared her views about a report on a police station prohibiting women from wearing \u201csexy outfits\u201d to avoid rape. She emphasized that people should stop teaching girls how to dress but teach people to not rape, adding that her clothes are not a form of consent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">breaking news: my clothing is NOT my consent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 hija (@kakiep83) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kakiep83\/status\/1271980684601487362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is when Tulfo tweeted to her with, \u201cHija @kakiep83, a rapist or a juvenile sex offender&#8217;s desire to commit a crime will always be there. All they need is an opportunity, when to commit the crime. Sexy ladies, careful with the way you dress up! You are inviting the beast.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8211; rape culture is real and a product of this precise line of thinking, where the behavior is normalized, particularly by men.<br \/>\n&#8211; the way anyone dresses should not be deemed as \u2018opportunity\u2019 to sexually assault them. ever.<br \/>\n&#8211; calling me hija will not belittle my point. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bLbtEDVGBn\">https:\/\/t.co\/bLbtEDVGBn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 hija (@kakiep83) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kakiep83\/status\/1271975177836875776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nTulfo\u2019s response did not silence Pangilinan as she wrote back several points like rape culture being real and clothes not being an opportunity for sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>But also, she added, \u201cCalling me hija will not belittle my point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same interview, she explained that at 19, it is \u201cincredibly invalidating\u201d because like many of the youth, they are doing their best to educated and aware of these matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not a woman. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s ever experienced any sort of abuse similar to that. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s ever experienced any sort of discrimination through his gender. I don\u2019t think it was within his place to say something like that,\u201d she explained, adding that Tulfo\u2019s comment\u00a0 was just \u201cvery unprofessionally made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the attention on Pangilinan and her courage to speak up, she said in several tweets that she has received direct messages about different stories of abuse. And while she cannot respond to the hundreds she has received, she continued to uplift her followers with kind words of encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>Pangilinan also used the term &#8216;hija&#8217; with pride, even using it as her Twitter name and with several netizens joining her in the hashtag #HijaAko<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HijaAko?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HijaAko<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LYXZqsoVSz\">pic.twitter.com\/LYXZqsoVSz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 hija (@kakiep83) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kakiep83\/status\/1271995696871137280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HijaAko?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HijaAko<\/a><br \/>\nby jazmin reyes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5KR6lMjf7K\">pic.twitter.com\/5KR6lMjf7K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 hija (@kakiep83) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kakiep83\/status\/1272460619866763264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Pangilinan clarified in a tweet that despite the support on this movement, her priority, for now, is to hear the unheard.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">been asked a few times now if i\u2019ll be pushing the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HijaAko?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HijaAko<\/a> movement into a greater advocacy. while the brainstorming is imminent, i think it\u2019s more important right now to take the time to hear from all the people who were brave enough to share their stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 hija (@kakiep83) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kakiep83\/status\/1273043473554264065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite this, several have shown their thumbs up and nods to the idea that #HijaAko can still strive to be something bigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Ben Tulfo\u2019s call to Frankie Pangilinan over the weekend, the 19-year-old remains to be a champ for the unheard &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":258375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258376,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258357\/revisions\/258376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}