Current mood:	cheerful
Current music:	Australia - The Shins
Entry tags:	hohobags

The Hohobags
One of my coworkers sent me a video of a question and answer portion in a Bb. Pilipinas competition. It got me LOLlercoastering for a good five minutes.

Then it got me thinking. How could anyone consider someone like her fit to represent the Philippines and Filipino women in general? Granted, you don't watch beauty pagaents for an accurate representation of cultures from around the world. So what do you do when you come across something unfamiliar - like the "Filipina" for instance - and want instantaneous information about it? You look it up on the intarnets, of course! The intarnets has the answer to everything. Unfortunately, if you type in the word "Filipina" on Google, the first few websites that come out are catalogs of single Filipina women looking for husbands. Which is not to say that placing an advertisement for yourself on the Internet makes you any less Filipina. Whatever floats your boat. But just because this is the route a lot of our female compatriots choose to take, it doesn't mean that all of us Filipinas are mail-order-bride wannabes on the prowl for a rich white husband who will swaddle us in designer clothes and provide us with a green card, half-white kids who'll grow up to be models and celebrities back in the motherland, and a house in the suburbs.


Hohobags behaved

So as my contribution to my mom's campaign to reshape the sexy Filipina image on the Internet, I will talk about a group of Filipino women who don't quite fit the Maria Clara image our society oh-so-values, but who aren't "wild", promiscuous girls either. They are called The Hohobags and I am writing about them because I couldn't think of anything remotely intelligent to say about this topic so I've resorted to whoring my friends to the intarnets they are the group of girl friends every chick should have, except the Hohobags are much more awesomer. I can't remember who coined the word "hohobag" and where it originated from, but I do know that we started using the term around March when we were shopping for graduation dresses in the shade of "hohobag red". I suck at writing definitions but I shall do my best to explain to you the concept of a "hohobag".


( What is a hohobag? )