- Get Your OwnWell, this is an "amusing" item from the Associated Press. To quotes part of the report, "...Philippine police issued a warning to gay officers not sway their hips or display other suggestive behavior while on duty -- or they could risk losing their jobs.
"If they sway their hips while marching, or if they engage in lustful conduct, I think that will be a ground for separation," Chief Superintendent Samuel Pagdilao, Philippine National Police or PNP spokesman, said Thursday.
Pagdilao said the police department did not discriminate against homosexuals, but would not hesitate to fire those who misbehave..." That may be true, but it is still misguided. In this country where the cops have a reputation for having beer-bellies, extortion, ineptitude, corruption, etc., is Pagdilao more worried about the level of machismo in the police and being perceived as "effeminate." I wonder, does he think that a lispy queen, who is willing to risk life and limb to uphold the law and protect the innocent, not as good as the macho stud who has the same beliefs as the nelly cop? I hope not. Philippine society, despite strong Roman Catholic influences, has a very accepting attitude towards the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Trasngendered Pinoy. Our Police and Armed Forces have opened the doors to GLBT, and I hope it doesn't stop there. I hope Superintendent Pagdilao, and other Pinoys in general, would let go of these silly beliefs, and accept us as who we are. After all, it's not how fabulous or how gruff that matters in being a cop but the valor in his or her heart, the desire to protect the innocent and the willingness to uphold the law.
"If they sway their hips while marching, or if they engage in lustful conduct, I think that will be a ground for separation," Chief Superintendent Samuel Pagdilao, Philippine National Police or PNP spokesman, said Thursday.
Pagdilao said the police department did not discriminate against homosexuals, but would not hesitate to fire those who misbehave..." That may be true, but it is still misguided. In this country where the cops have a reputation for having beer-bellies, extortion, ineptitude, corruption, etc., is Pagdilao more worried about the level of machismo in the police and being perceived as "effeminate." I wonder, does he think that a lispy queen, who is willing to risk life and limb to uphold the law and protect the innocent, not as good as the macho stud who has the same beliefs as the nelly cop? I hope not. Philippine society, despite strong Roman Catholic influences, has a very accepting attitude towards the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Trasngendered Pinoy. Our Police and Armed Forces have opened the doors to GLBT, and I hope it doesn't stop there. I hope Superintendent Pagdilao, and other Pinoys in general, would let go of these silly beliefs, and accept us as who we are. After all, it's not how fabulous or how gruff that matters in being a cop but the valor in his or her heart, the desire to protect the innocent and the willingness to uphold the law.
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