The hashtag #everywoman trended on Twitter and Facebook today as the netizens’ way of protesting gendered attacks as some lawmakers agreed to show Senator Leila de Lima’s alleged sex video.
GMA News Online also shared Palanca-winner writer Libay Linsangan Cantor’s Facebook post with the trending hashtag, as she said that it doesn’t even matter whether people believe in de Lima or not. She is “taking a stand against attacks on a woman, period.”
According to Cosmopolitan, one supporter who joined the #Everywoman campaign noted: “The woman in the video whom they insist is de Lima has glasses. It could be any woman who has glasses.”
The hashtag is actually part of a campaign protesting the showing of de Lima’s alleged scandal in Congress, which started at 12 noon on September 30. Those who would like to participate are asked to make this line their status:
“I would like to testify in the HOR. It was me in the sex video. #Everywoman”
Vice President Leni Robredo’s daughter also jointed the campaign, as well as several other personalities like feminist-writer Ninotchka Rosca, journalist Ces Drilon.
I would like to testify in the HOR. It was me in the sex video. #EveryWoman
— Aika Robredo (@aikarobredo) September 30, 2016
I would like to testify in the HOR. It was me in the sex video. #Everywoman #ParasaKababaihan
— Ces Oreña-Drilon (@cesdrilon) September 30, 2016
#EveryWoman: No to slut-shaming in Philippine Congress https://t.co/7pIb7nVgLv via @rapplerdotcom
— Stacy de Jesus (@stacydejesus) September 30, 2016
#EveryWoman legislator should sign this. Show ur women constituents that you go against misogyny.In fact male lawmakers shld have their own. https://t.co/Fw6ot8qSvE
— elizabeth angsioco (@bethangsioco) September 30, 2016
One netizen pointed out that no one deserves “public shaming,” not even Duterte supporters whistleblower Sandra Cam and Mocha Uson.
Even men supported the campaign, tweeting #Everyman with #Everywoman.
As of 4pm today, the hashtag placed third on the list of Twitter trends in the Philippines.
House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez saw nothing wrong with showing the video, although other lawmakers disagreed, like Senators Grace Poe, Risa Hontiveros, Nancy Binay, and Loren Legarda. Senate President Koko Pimentel advised congressmen to be sensitive and to be “ready to pay the political price” if they continue showing the video.
Sources: (gmanetwork.com, cosmo.ph)
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