DEAR President Digong. I think those penis jokes may have stretched too far, not literally.
But really, you blurted those jokes on a campaign rally. If I were a campaign manager, even if I knew you would not stay on script, I would still have advised you to talk about things like solving people’s hardship. But not, never, about hard-ons.
Does this mean your candidates have nothing to say, so you go on with your penis monologue?
But with due respect, Mr. President, though those joy sticks may be fun, but we want to hear something else.
Besides, a friend, a psychology graduate, said old men bragging about their joy sticks are a turn-off. Just look at how your minions jeered at that 67-year old musician-critic of yours.
Let’s talk balls instead. Because people believed you have the balls, the guts, to go against corrupt officials, against oligarchs, against drug lords. Or to go against China.
The Otso-Diretso dared you to ride that jet-ski you promised to do, off to Scarborough Shoal to defend our fisherfolk, seas and islands against the Chinese military vessels and guards.
You can call their challenge a stunt, or that they have fallen for your bluff. But they express something we wanted to say. Do you still have the balls? Or have we fallen for your bola, or flattery.
The funny thing is, as we are celebrating Araw ng Kagitingan, I think women in history have more balls fighting for the motherland.
There was a teacher in Iloilo who fought the Spanish guardia civil, and later fought the American soldiers, and even supported the Huks against Japanese troops during the war, before retiring at old age. She is Teresa Magbanua, one true fighter.
Or there was another teacher in Davao, a widow, a Yellow Friday Movement founder, who stood up against Enrile and challenged him to stop the repression in the Marcos dictatorship.
There are other women leaders now, fighting for truthful journalism, for protection of Moro and indigenous peoples amidst Martial Law, for better governance. Because empowering people matters, and not about our egos and libido.
Or let’s take a cue from the movie of Heneral Luna, let’s have leaders who lead with their head up in our shoulders, not from down there. Let us rightfully rise to the occasion. tyvelez@gmail.com