‘Misogynist’: Female lawmakers hit sex video show

TWO female lawmakers on Friday joined the growing clamor against a plan to show a “sex video” of Sen. Leila de Lima during a congressional inquiry, saying it would be misogynist, not to mention illegal.

Diwa party-list Rep. Emmeline AglipayVillar, head of the House Committee on Women and Gender Equality, said the plan being pushed by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre 2nd was “unacceptable and reprehensible.”

“We must hold ourselves to a higher standard than this … The fact that some

are even considering displaying an alleged sex tape during a congressional hearing is a sign of how far we have to go when it comes to the right [to] privacy and the rights of women in this country,” she added.

Aglipay-Villar, wife of Public Works Secretary Mark Villar, said that regardless of the identities of the people in the video, its recording and subsequent release did not have the consent of those involved.

De Lima, who had been repeatedly accused by the President of getting millions of pesos in drug - rial run, denies the video.

Aguirre claims to be in possession of three such videos of de Lima, a former Justice secretary, hav- ing sex with her driver-bodyguard Ronnie Dayan or other men.

Dayan’s intimate relationship with de Lima, driver-bodyguard was able to collect money from drug syndicates inside the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City.

Dinagat Islands Rep. Arlene Bag-ao said showing the sex video would be a blatant violation of the law.

to bring down a strong woman using misogyny masked by a false sense of morality? Let us be circumspect, cautious and sober. Let us exercise inter-parliamentary courtesy and decency,” Bagao said in a separate statement.

Militant human rights group Karapatan also weighed in, branding the plan to show the video an “overkill.”