Suntay is ‘poster boy’ of misogyny

(1st UPDATE) ‘You maintain a seat paid for by taxpayers. Girls are taxpayers. I’m a taxpayer. We’re not 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 girls expertise the identical every day, however famous that what made hers totally different was that it got here from a public official.

“Because you used me for instance, let me use you as one too. You’ve grow to be the poster boy of one thing a lot greater: a tradition that also thinks it’s acceptable to speak about girls 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 mentioned.

“You maintain a seat paid for by taxpayers. Girls are taxpayers. I’m a taxpayer. We’re not props in your commentary,” she added.

Suntay is in scorching water for saying that he had a sexual fantasy about Curtis through the Home of Representatives‘ impeachment proceedings in opposition to Vice President Sara Duterte on March 3. The lawmaker mentioned 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 girls’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 legal professionals.

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 licensed its ethics committee to research the lawmaker’s remarks.

On Suntay’s spouse’s apology

Curtis mentioned she doesn’t settle for Suntay’s “non-apology,” however takes notice of the apology made by the lawmaker’s spouse. 

“As a result of as a spouse and a mom myself, I do know precisely what she have to be feeling — that exact sort of embarrassment, that helplessness, that quiet grief of watching somebody select so poorly in public,” the actress mentioned. 

“To her, and to your kids: this isn’t your disgrace. Please know that. And I hope everybody studying this extends them the identical grace. They did nothing improper, and so they need to be overlooked of it solely,” she added. 

On Thursday, March 5, Suntay’s spouse, Sheila Guevarra, issued an apology to the actress. 

“To Anne Curtis and her household — I’m deeply sorry. No lady ought to ever be spoken about that method, and I perceive if phrases alone really feel inadequate,” the lawmaker’s spouse mentioned. 

In the meantime, Curtis additionally mentioned in her assertion that the folks deserve higher from “public officers who neglect who they serve.”

“Each time a comment like this goes unchallenged, we decrease the bar for what management appears to be like like. Each time a girl is decreased to an inexpensive comment by somebody holding a place of public belief, and nothing occurs…. We inform the following era of girls precisely the place they stand,” Curtis mentioned. “That’s what I refuse to just accept.” – Rappler.com