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Opinion

Using the period card

THE EAR - The Freeman
October 4, 2018 | 12:00am

MEN-STRUATION? Partylist representative John Bertiz seems to be digging himself a deeper hole with that apology he issued for his behavior during an airport security screening. Netizens are saying for one thing he never apologized to the person he insulted, and for another he inadvertently attacked women by saying he suffered the male version of “a monthly period.”

 

“Pasabot diay ana kung naa ko’y period unya moagi ko sa airport mag-ingon ana diay ko?” a woman said.

JOHN BERTIZ
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