Bicol's Unpride

Bicolanos should have been proud of Leila and Leni. But many Bicolanos aren’t.

Maybe it is because these two are perceived, rightly or wrongly, to embody the worst of how our women have been stereotyped–ambitious, aggressive, lusting not only for power but for the pleasures of the flesh, opportunistic. This has led quite a few Bicolanas to express their discomfort at having these two women represent them.

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