AGUSTIN, JOEL

CHALLOY, RHONA MARGIE

LAMAGON, JESON
LEAÑO, NAOIMI JOSE MERL
SONI, SHELLA MARIE
ABPS 2A
AUG. 2, 2020

Table 1
Interviewees' Perspectives on Hunger

Gender Orientation
Aspects of
Interviewees'
Perspectives
  Men (M) Women (W) Girls (G) Boys (B) LGBTQ+ (L)

Uneasy feeling
or discomfort
and lack of
Uncomfortable feeling energy caused
caused by lack or by the need for
Craving or Person's emotion
deprivation of food and results uneasy feeling
Definition of urgent need for wherein w can say
something which to the wherein you
Hunger food or a that there is really
gives us the desire psychological crave for food.
specific nutrient; a need to eat. 
and demand to eat desire of a
scarcity of food.
food.  person to
consume
something
edible.
It is difficult; Had to The situation is
Description - Rarely Did not Did not
limit food really hard;
Hunger experienced experienced experienced
consumption to Reaching a low
Experience hunger. hunger.  hunger.
maintain supply. point in life.
Not necessarily
It opened their
changed perception Gay turns to a
Effect - eyes and made It gave more
as a man, instead Stressed and straight man
Perception as them realized motivation to
emphasized Hateful. because hunger
M,W,G,B, or L significant life study harder.
responsibilities as a makes him mad. 
learnings.
man.
Understand the Helping each Waited for reliefs
situation and the other as a from the
Coping cause. Afterwards, community and government and
N/A N/A
Mechanism think of alternatives growing of own other
and ways to have vegetables and compassionate
source of income. source of food.  people.

Definition of Hunger.

All of the respondents: man, woman, girl, boy and the LGBTQ+ have defined hunger as
an uneasy feeling or discomfort or generally a feeling that they experience when in need of
food. Another definition of hunger that the LGBTQ+ defined is that it is an emotion felt by a
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CHALLOY, RHONA MARGIE
LAMAGON, JESON
LEAÑO, NAOIMI JOSE MERL
SONI, SHELLA MARIE
ABPS 2A
AUG. 2, 2020
person where he/she can say that she/he is hungry which is quite similar to the definition of the
men, women, girls and boys respondents.
Basing from the answers of the respondents as to the definition of hunger, we can say
that their answer can be related to the Stomach Contraction Theory wherein the respondents'
interpretation of hunger which they define as an uncomfortable feeling is considered to be the
effect of contraction in their stomach that is why they feel hungry that would then qualify to the
definition of the Social Contraction Theory. Moreover, The Physiology of Hunger was mentioned
in the given reading material which we can also relate to the responses of the respondents
regarding the definition of hunger which defines hunger as "internal experiences that leads
human or animals to seek food". Again, the respondents' definition of hunger is a feeling of
discomfort/ uncomfortable feeling (which we consider as an internal experience) when in need
of food reflective of the Physiology of Hunger.
From the given data, we can as well conclude that the definition of hunger is not
gendered since all of the respondents provided similar definitions of hunger and we see no
difference among the definitions given by men, women, girls, boys and LGBTQ+ respondents.

How hunger was experienced.

According to the men respondents, they have experienced hunger during this lockdown
and it is difficult; they had to limit food consumption to maintain supply. As to the boy
respondents, their response is quite parallel because they stated that they also experienced
hunger and the situation is really hard, some narrated that they're already reaching a low point
in life. On the other hand, the women respondents answered that they rarely experienced
hunger. As to the girl respondents' answers, they stated that they did not experience hunger. 
We can see from the results that men and boys are the ones experiencing difficulties in
this time of a pandemic while women and girls do not. This would mean that the data at hand is
contradictory to the idea of 'Hunger as an Ecofeminist Issue' which connotes that 'the principal
victims of environmental degradation are the most underprivileged people and majority are
women' because it is evident in the given data that men suffer while women aren't which is the
total opposite of the of hunger as an ecofeminist issue. It as well contradicts the idea of
masculinity and breaks out from the idea of women oppression because we can see that by not
experiencing hunger by the women and girl respondents, it is clear that they are not being
oppressed and deprived of their rights to access their needs leading them to surpass hunger. 
From this point, we can infer that feminist movements at present are gradually operating and
becoming effective nowadays that are championing women and recognizing them as part of the
society who play vital roles in attaining sustainable development in various ways.

How hunger affected the interviewees' perception of their gender orientation.

Adult men claim hunger to have not affected their perception of gender orientation, while
adult women, girls, boys, and members of the LGBTQ+ community responded hunger to have
indeed influenced their perception.
In the given module, hunger was defined physiologically stating that hunger is the
internal experiences that command a person or animal to seek for food. If a person is unable to
fill hunger, it is most likely that his/her body and thinking capability will not function well which
constitutes what has been identified as The Madness Hunger. Men respondents to have
AGUSTIN, JOEL
CHALLOY, RHONA MARGIE
LAMAGON, JESON
LEAÑO, NAOIMI JOSE MERL
SONI, SHELLA MARIE
ABPS 2A
AUG. 2, 2020
considered hunger as a light that made them realize their responsibility as men to produce
goods; young boys to have been motivated in what they do, and women to have thought of
lessons (that being women is not an excuse not to provide for themselves) are positives effects
in their perception of gender orientation. However, for young girls and gays to have experienced
hunger has a greater impact.  Girls believe that they are physically inferior and this reality
extends to their perception that they are just girls and less capable to produce goods as men
do. On the other hand, gays are like girls, they doubt their own capability which makes them
hateful and angry about their gender inferiority. Some gays struggle to gain back the masculine
self by doing what a masculine man does to fill his needs. The problem is that, do they really
seek for ways to with hunger?
Gender is being questioned because of the stigma that physical inferiority prevents a
person from exploring what he/she can do still exists on how people perceive things. It does not
really change people's perception of gender orientation but it rather materializes how they view
gender through their reactions from hunger.

Coping Mechanism. 

While men and women cannot just sit down and die from hunger, young girls and boys
including that of other members of the LGBTQ+ community tend to be dependent on financial
aids from the government and other sources of food assistance.
In the Political Economy of Hunger, it suggests that the state must maintain food
security, though it is not ideal for the people regardless of their gender to badly rely on the
government. The question is why is it those young girls, boys, and other members of the
LGBTQ+  based on the table, still manage to neglect their responsibilities in helping themselves
rather than depending from anyone else?
The theory on The Madness Hunger mentioned hopelessness. People become hopeless
to be productive while enduring hunger. However, there could be other possible reasons
because if a physiological perspective concludes that hunger is an internal experience which
command a person to seek food, then it is not likely that those girls, boys, and other LGBTQ+
members would resort to just do nothing. It could have something to do with responsibility alone.
Youngsters nowadays seem to be neglectful of what they can be used to help because they
think that adults should have greater responsibilities. In a family as an example, it is a common
thing that the older brothers or sisters take more of the homework than the younger siblings.
This concept then develops when greater family needs occur.  Girls and gays may have been
affected by the inferiority in gender orientation but the overall impact emanates from one's age
level as another basis on the concept of responsibility.

Perspective of a Boy Who did not Experience Hunger

Respondent no 1 is a boy, teenager, defined hunger with his statement “Hunger is an

uncomfortable feeling in your stomach that is caused b by the nedd for food.” He then answered
in the negative side about the question if he experienced hunger during the COVID-19 ECQ-
GCQ, with his statement “No, because I eat 3 times a day”. According to him, “As a
man/gentleman, hunger is experienced by living organisms; a natural feeling that will occur if the
body is out of energy.” Respondent no 2, a boy, a teenager, also answered that he did not
experienced wherein he said “No, because there’s abundant food in our place and we’re in a
AGUSTIN, JOEL
CHALLOY, RHONA MARGIE
LAMAGON, JESON
LEAÑO, NAOIMI JOSE MERL
SONI, SHELLA MARIE
ABPS 2A
AUG. 2, 2020
covid-free community, so we can go out and buy and get some food that we want, and also the
government has distributed relief goods to add our supplies.” He also added, “Whenever I
experienced hunger, it didn’t change my perception being a man.”
From the pronouncements of the two participants, who were both boy, the researchers
then arrived with their analysations. The physiologies of hunger explained that hunger was
being experienced by human or animal because of the internal experiences, the latter defines
the internal body organs that we experience. The definition of Respondent no 1 was conformed
to the stomach contraction theory (Walter Bradford Cannon, 1912), which stated that we know
we are hungry when our stomach contracts. The respondents were very practical on their
answers that were absolutely in conforming to the theories presented under the physiologies of
hunger. Their perception as a boy were being seen by the researchers as pragmatic approach.
It does not matter for them if you are a boy or a girl for you to experience hunger, because,
basing from their statements, hunger could be experienced by any gender.

Perspective of a Girl/Woman Who did not Experience Hunger

Respondent no 3, a girl, teenager, defined hunger as an uncomfortable or unhealthy

feeling due to lack of something needed by the body. She said that she did not experienced
hunger during the COVID-19 ECQ-GCQ, with her statement “No, when it comes to food there is
sufficient food provided by the local government through relief packs and we have our sources
such as fields and gardens.” She then explained that “Being a girl, there’s always this time of
the month that it wanted large amounts of unhealthy and necessary but I never felt hunger.
Despite never feeling hungry, I felt being a girl I cannot control my hunger toward food unlike
men who I observed don’t changes in apetite.” Respondent no 4, an adult, defined hunger as
not being able to eat three times a day. She explained that she did not experience hunger with
her statement “No, I did not experience hunger because aside from my savings which I spent
during the covid-19 ECQ-GCQ, there is also the ‘ayuda’ from the government. Another also is
the ‘pagkamagpabigay’ which is already embodied in our culture wherein we give whatever is
excess to our neighbours who are in need.” She aslo added that “As a woman though, I did not
experience hunger during this challenging time, it opened my eyes to the nature of our culture
and society.”
The researchers came up with their analysations from the statements of the participants.
The problem of hunger in the Philippines may tackles about the political economy of hunger.
Both the respondents have a deep perception of hunger. They both seem to be aggressive to
look/seek/ask as they tackled about the government’s response on how to ease hunger brought
by the pandemic.
Men and the women have always been compared in every aspect. In the aspect of
hunger, both genders have the same definition of hunger, wherein they both defined it as a
natural phenomenon that any gender could always experience. However, they differ on their
perspective of being a man and a woman when they face hunger. Women would likely to be
deeper than men. The femininity of being a woman would always be in the forefront. Women
have a deep understanding and perspectives on how to solve the problem of hunger within her
family.

Conclusions. 
AGUSTIN, JOEL
CHALLOY, RHONA MARGIE
LAMAGON, JESON
LEAÑO, NAOIMI JOSE MERL
SONI, SHELLA MARIE
ABPS 2A
AUG. 2, 2020

The module indicates that women in developing countries, like the Philippines, continue
to suffer the effects of hunger. If hunger can only be shown in the face, the face of a child and a
mother are usually used because they are the most vulnerable in the human society. Hunger
can be a political problem and at the same time be a gendered process. The way a person
understands and interprets things around him can be the same or different from other people’s
perspective especially if we are going to include gender in the discussion.
In this study, based on the data that we have gathered, we can conclude that hunger is
not gendered since all of the respondents provided similar definitions and we can see no
difference among the definitions given by men, women, girls, boys and LGBTQ+ respondents.
The respondents- men, women, girl and boy- defined hunger as an uneasy feeling or discomfort
or generally a feeling that they experience when in need of food. In addition, an LGBTQ+
respondent defined it as an emotion felt by a person where he can say that he is hungry.
Hunger as an Ecofeminist Issue connotes that the principal victims of environmental
degradation are the most underprivileged people and majority are women. Women in many
developing suffer the effects of chronic hunger. One of the factors that put women at the risk of
suffering hunger can be the continuous deprivation of women’s rights. However, the idea based
on ‘Hunger as an Ecofeminist Issue’, that women suffer the most in terms of hunger contradicts
the findings of this study.     According to the men respondents, they have experienced hunger
during this pandemic and it is difficult; they had to limit food consumption to maintain supply. As
to the boy respondents, their response is quite parallel because they stated that they also
experienced hunger and the situation is really hard, some narrated that they're already reaching
a low point in life. On the other hand, the women respondents answered that they rarely
experienced hunger. As to the girl respondents' answers, they stated that they did not
experience hunger. It as well contradicts the idea of masculinity and breaks out from the idea of
women oppression because we can see that by not experiencing hunger by the women and girl
respondents, it is clear that they are not being oppressed and deprived of their rights to access
their needs leading them to surpass hunger. From this point we can infer that feminist
movements at present are gradually operating and becoming effective nowadays that are
championing women and recognizing them as part of the society who play vital roles in attaining
sustainable development in various ways. In addition, women’s sense of responsibility to feed
their families can also be a factor as to why women did not experience hunger during this
pandemic.
The respondents’ experience in connection to hunger somewhat affected and changed
the way they see things around them or their perception of their gender orientation. If a person
is unable to fill hunger, it is most likely that his/her body and thinking capability will not function
well which constitutes what has been identified as The Madness Hunger. Based on the data that
we have gathered, men claimed that hunger did not affect their perception while on the other
hand, the women, girl, boy and LGBTQ+ respondents claimed that hunger influenced their
perception. In terms of coping mechanism, men and women’s sense of responsibility provoked
them to make an action in order for them to surpass hunger. As adults, they possess the sense
of responsibility to feed their families.
We arrived at the conclusion which breaks the notion that women suffer the most effects
of hunger. It shows that feminist movements is somewhat making a change in our society. All
genders can experience hunger and it can also inflict varying effects on one’s perception of their
gender. Men and women, as adults, will not just rely on food assistance because they have their
AGUSTIN, JOEL
CHALLOY, RHONA MARGIE
LAMAGON, JESON
LEAÑO, NAOIMI JOSE MERL
SONI, SHELLA MARIE
ABPS 2A
AUG. 2, 2020
sense of responsibility to feed their families. On the other hand, young girls and boys including
that of other members of the LGBTQ+ community tend to be dependent on financial aids from
the government and other sources of food assistance.