Homewreckers' Revenge
The talk of town in the past, I dunno, 9 days, has been the viral video of a wife catching her husband with another woman at a mall. It was a one-sided catfight, the alleged concubine was clearly victimised by the wife as she was dragged down the mall floor by her hair. As in hindi binitawan ni Misis yung buhok niya!!!! Nakakawarla! Tapos mukha talagang naiiyak na siya.
Anyway, I was reading the ABS-CBN News piece with commentary from Atty. Nikki De Vega. It is rather sad to think about the legal hellhole the legal wife made for herself. To think that she was a victim also. I don't know if her reaction about her husband love affair is naturally Pinoy (the love for pure scandal) or also a reaction of accumulated suppressed rage, also culturally conditioned to be the accepting wife, no matter how much her husband has wronged her, until the last straw wherein she just bursts and uses brute force as the only remedy available for her. If you think about it, her only options are concubinage (not much of an option due to those bastard chauvinist who made the Revised Penal Code making it harder to prosecute concubinage than the female version of adultery) and AVAWC. She can't sue for tort due to a lack of a direct wrongful act, and being in a jurisdiction that doesn't litigate based on emotions (I did talk about the Heartbalm Statutes once briefly). In fact, because of her little show in Market Market, Future Ex-Wife will probably be the one liable for one.
A similar incident happened to our law school recently, and it's been the talk of the school for awhile, with increased policy measures that required us to wear our IDs all the time. A pregnant woman went to a senior student's classroom right after an elective class and made a major scene. The student was accused of adultery, being shouted at infront of her classmates ("Inahas mo yung asawa ko!! Bakit ka may susi ng apartment niya? Di mo ba alam na may tatlong anak na siya...") and take note, she was even repeatedly slapped on the face (or better said in the vernacular, "pinagsasampal"). The student couldn't even react. As in she was just startled. I bet if facebook had the same tracking mechanism as Multiply, hers probably received 500 hits that day.
I thought the love affair of Filipinos with telenovelas is enough of a cautionary tale on why private life should not penetrate the public sphere. I showed it to my mom and yaya. Mom is very lawyerly, how the appearances is not enough to establish that the woman was the kabit and that it was the husband who should be punished since he was the one who wronged the wife. My yaya thinks the kabit deserved it, and was pissed that the husband was just staring. My take on the matter: It's complicated.
Anyway, I was reading the ABS-CBN News piece with commentary from Atty. Nikki De Vega. It is rather sad to think about the legal hellhole the legal wife made for herself. To think that she was a victim also. I don't know if her reaction about her husband love affair is naturally Pinoy (the love for pure scandal) or also a reaction of accumulated suppressed rage, also culturally conditioned to be the accepting wife, no matter how much her husband has wronged her, until the last straw wherein she just bursts and uses brute force as the only remedy available for her. If you think about it, her only options are concubinage (not much of an option due to those bastard chauvinist who made the Revised Penal Code making it harder to prosecute concubinage than the female version of adultery) and AVAWC. She can't sue for tort due to a lack of a direct wrongful act, and being in a jurisdiction that doesn't litigate based on emotions (I did talk about the Heartbalm Statutes once briefly). In fact, because of her little show in Market Market, Future Ex-Wife will probably be the one liable for one.
A similar incident happened to our law school recently, and it's been the talk of the school for awhile, with increased policy measures that required us to wear our IDs all the time. A pregnant woman went to a senior student's classroom right after an elective class and made a major scene. The student was accused of adultery, being shouted at infront of her classmates ("Inahas mo yung asawa ko!! Bakit ka may susi ng apartment niya? Di mo ba alam na may tatlong anak na siya...") and take note, she was even repeatedly slapped on the face (or better said in the vernacular, "pinagsasampal"). The student couldn't even react. As in she was just startled. I bet if facebook had the same tracking mechanism as Multiply, hers probably received 500 hits that day.
I thought the love affair of Filipinos with telenovelas is enough of a cautionary tale on why private life should not penetrate the public sphere. I showed it to my mom and yaya. Mom is very lawyerly, how the appearances is not enough to establish that the woman was the kabit and that it was the husband who should be punished since he was the one who wronged the wife. My yaya thinks the kabit deserved it, and was pissed that the husband was just staring. My take on the matter: It's complicated.