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‘You maintain a seat paid for by taxpayers. Girls are taxpayers. I’m a taxpayer. We aren’t props in your commentary,’ the actress tells Quezon Metropolis 4th District Consultant Bong Suntay
MANILA, Philippines – Actress Anne Curtis has lastly issued her assertion days after the misogynistic and lewd remarks by Quezon Metropolis 4th District Consultant Bong Suntay.
Curtis famous that her expertise was not uncommon as ladies expertise the identical every day, however famous that what made hers completely different was that it got here from a public official.
“Because you used me for example, let me use you as one too. You’ve change into the poster boy of one thing a lot larger: a tradition that also thinks it’s acceptable to speak about ladies this manner. Worse, one which tolerates it from our leaders. As they are saying, misogyny dressed up as a joke continues to be misogyny,” the actress stated.
“You maintain a seat paid for by taxpayers. Girls are taxpayers. I’m a taxpayer. We aren’t props in your commentary,” she added.
Suntay is in sizzling water for saying that he had a sexual fantasy about Curtis throughout the Home of Representatives‘ impeachment proceedings in opposition to Vice President Sara Duterte on March 3. The lawmaker stated he was merely making an analogy to defend Duterte’s risk in opposition to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
However the public didn’t take Suntay’s remarks as a mere joke. On March 6, a number of ladies’s teams filed a criticism with the Workplace of the Ombudsman in opposition to Suntay for allegedly violating Republic Act No. 11313 or the Secure Areas Act, RA No. 9710 or the Magna Carta of Girls, RA No. 6713 or the Code of Conduct and Moral Requirements for Public Officers and Staff, and the Code of Skilled Accountability and Accountability for attorneys.
Suntay additionally faces a separate ethics criticism filed by the Gabriela Girls’s Social gathering and the Kilusan ng Manggagawang Kababaihan on the Home. The decrease chamber has already approved its ethics committee to research the lawmaker’s remarks. – Rappler.com
