Philippines president refers to women as 'b----es' and 'crazy' at women's empowerment event
Source: The Hill
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte addressed female police officers and military staff at an event intended to celebrate them earlier this week as puta, which translates to bitch in English.
While delivering remarks at an event that was meant to honor the Southeast Asian countrys Outstanding Women in Law Enforcement and National Security on Monday, Duterte addressed the overwhelmingly female audience using the profane remark, The Guardian reports.
He also addressed them as you crazy women and lamented women who he said deprive him of my freedom of expression, according to the international news agency.
Duterte also reportedly told the crowd at one point: I love women.
Thats why you see I have two wives. That means I like women, he continued.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/434135-philippines-president-refers-to-women-as-bitches-and-crazy-at-womens
Initech
(100,108 posts)What a scumbag.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)....but OUR pig has more potential to screw up he whole world. BOTH are awful. There are many "awfuls" around the world today. So sad we have to have one of them sitting on nuclear codes. We will recover, but this SOB can really fook up the world permanently.
Initech
(100,108 posts)Calling these people "pigs" is an insult to pigs. Pigs produce useful things, these psychopaths do not produce anything useful.
EX500rider
(10,881 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 14, 2019, 09:39 PM - Edit history (1)
It is short for "prostituta" or prostitute.
pnwmom
(109,009 posts)Ligyron
(7,639 posts)demosincebirth
(12,544 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)To look at Duterte, is to see Trump. They have the same impulsive proclivities toward violent authortarian rule by a single strong man dictator. They both act out their most primitive instincts without thought or understanding of the consequences.
barbtries
(28,815 posts)nt
PatSeg
(47,649 posts)When I read that, Trump immediately came to mind.
barbtries
(28,815 posts)watch what they do. though in both cases they have also said despicable things about women.
PatSeg
(47,649 posts)after abusing a woman verbally and physically, then saying, "But I really love you so much".
The Mouth
(3,165 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)padah513
(2,509 posts)When Karma hits this bastard right between the eyes
dalton99a
(81,637 posts)The president of the Philippines wants to rename his country
But does his proposed name mean nobility or big phallus?
Mar 14th 2019 | MANILA
RODRIGO DUTERTE, the perpetually disgruntled president of the Philippines, is unhappy about the name of his country. I want to change it someday, he remarked earlier this month in one of his customary rambling speeches. No particular name yet but, sure, I would like to change the name of the Philippines, because the Philippines is named after King Philip. The Philip in question was a 16th-century king of Spain. A Portuguese explorer in the pay of the Spanish crown, Ferdinand Magellan, was the first European to visit the archipelago, which he claimed for Spain. (He was then killed by locals.) Mr Duterte says he would prefer a name inspired by the indigenous, Malay culture.
It was the second time in three weeks that Mr Duterte had called for a new name, making it sound like an official government policy. But his spokesman, Salvador Panelo, is woolly about that: He is expressing an idea again as usual. If it is policy, it will require an amendment to the constitution, which would have to be approved by plebiscite.
That seems unlikely. If the reminder of colonialism makes ordinary Filipinos bridle, they do so less openly than their president. And the first time Mr Duterte aired the idea of a name change, in February, he diminished the chances of it ever becoming reality by suggesting a new name associated with Ferdinand Marcos, a former dictator: Maharlika. Mr Duterte explained: Marcos, he is really right. He wanted to change the name to Maharlika, the Republic of Maharlika, because Maharlika is a Malay word. Mr Marcos thought the word meant nobility, and said it had been the name of a guerrilla group he claimed to have led to resist Japanese occupation during the second world war.
Most historians, however, believe that Mr Marcos invented the guerrilla group, or wildly exaggerated its exploits, in order to cast himself as a war hero. Many academics also dispute the assertion that Maharlika means nobility, saying it refers to a lower class in the ancient hierarchy. Moreover, the word does not seem to be Malay at all, but rather derived from Sanskrit. The consensus seems to be that it means man of ability, although a persistent minority translate it as big phallus. In 2016 an online petition urged Mr Duterte to rename the Philippines the Republic of Maharlika. Of the countrys 105m citizens, just seven signed up.
Evolve Dammit
(16,781 posts)How do any women willingly (emphasis on willingly) cater to anything these assholes want? How did he get two wives? How did he get one wife?? Are they attracted to "power"?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a nice place it would be without pigs like this!
sakabatou
(42,186 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)raging moderate
(4,311 posts)After all, Trump has THREE wives.