Chavit Singson the woman beater?

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go chavit go

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At Large
Male privilege

By Rina Jimenez-David
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:58:00 09/09/2009

Filed Under: Crime and Law and Justice, Gender Issues, Women, Laws, Family, Punishment, Justice & Rights

Women and men, it seems, will hold contrasting views on the Chavit Singson-Che Tiongson story.

By way of background, the story hit the headlines when Che Tiongson, who had been Singson’s long-time partner and mother of five of his children, sued Singson, the deputy national security adviser, for beating her up, along with her lover, last Aug. 22. Photos submitted by Tiongson showed her badly bruised face, with contusions on her neck and shoulder. The lover has not been heard from.

Singson now says he “saved their lives” when he walked in on the couple because otherwise they would have been killed by the men he sent to track them down. Previously, Singson told the media that he should even be commended for not killing the two, apparently unaware that our laws no longer condone a “crime of passion.”

I sensed the gender divide looming in the radio show of Karen Davila and Vic de Leon Lima, during which they interviewed Singson by phone. Lima seemed inclined to sympathize with the former governor, apparently believing that any man who walks in on his partner and her lover could not be blamed for running amuck.

Davila sounded alarmed by Singson’s nonchalant explanation that if he hadn’t shown up, Tiongson and her boyfriend would be dead by now. And when she brought up the photographic evidence of a mauling, Singson reasoned that Tiongson got hurt because she tried to intervene while his bodyguards were giving her boyfriend a beating.

A texter tried to be evenhanded in assessing the scandal: “Chavit Singson committed a crime of violence, but Che Singson committed a crime of morals.”

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UH-OH. Despite the passage of the Magna Carta of Women, which criminalizes any form of gender-based discrimination, in the eyes of many, any woman who “sins” deserves to be beaten up, if not killed.

Tiongson offers a capsule history of her life with Chavit: She met him while she was just 19 years old, a student, and stayed by his side and served him faithfully until a few years ago when he “went back to his old ways,” womanizing and largely abandoning his family in their gilded prison.

Singson says he is the victim because even after Tiongson left the abode, she continued to hound him for more money for her children and boyfriend.

No one seems to think that Singson, who makes no secret of his penchant for gambling, guns, goons and girls, has been committing serial “crimes of morals.” While no one’s saying Tiongson deserves canonization, social condemnation of her infidelity has bore down strongly against her, with people declaring that she was asking for it when she dared cuckold a known warlord and member of the President’s official family. This is what’s known as the “privileging” of male behavior, with transgressions and excesses forgiven because “boys will be boys,” while women’s behavior is held to more stringent standards.

One detail bears noting. Singson and his bodyguards allegedly forced Tiongson and her lover to strip and have their pictures taken, apparently to embarrass them, and presumably provide Singson with “proof” of their illicit liaison. Singson apparently was counting on the threat of public humiliation as well as his reputation for ruthlessness to silence Tiongson and keep her under his control—even if he had already tired of her. But Tiongson, counting on the protection provided by the law against violence against women, chose to break her silence and go to court. The time for testing our society’s commitment to the rights of women has come.

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EVEN AS the President seeks to distance herself from Singson, calling on him to resign voluntarily and to “behave,” she is having a harder time inoculating herself from charges that under her administration yet another criminal, one on a long list of prominent persons involved in sensational crimes, has found relief.

Expressing outrage, various women’s groups decry the impending transfer of convicted rapist Francisco Juan “Paco” Larrañaga to a prison in Spain, to serve the remainder of his life sentence for the rape and murder of the Chiong sisters in Cebu in 1997.

Larrañaga, so the Department of Justice explains, is a Spanish citizen and therefore covered by the RP-Spain Transfer of Sentenced Persons Agreement, signed by the Philippine government in 2007 and covered by an enabling law that became effective last year. In fact, Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera protests that Malacañang has nothing to do with the transfer since this is a diplomatic matter over which the President has no control.

But in a statement, the women’s groups demand to know “why they prioritized Spain for this treaty” when the Chiong family had already objected to its signing even while it was being deliberated on in Congress. “Is it pure coincidence that the rapist is a ‘scion of the powerful and wealthy Osmeña clan of Cebu’?” they ask.

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THE WOMEN’S groups also want to know why Spain received priority when 128 overseas Filipino workers “are languishing in Kuwaiti jails compared to seven detained in Spain.”

DFA officials claim such agreements are meant to benefit Filipinos serving time in other countries, but they certainly have an odd set of priorities. The biggest number of Filipino detainees abroad is found in Malaysia, with 1,600 behind bars. As of 2007, almost 5,000 Filipinos were imprisoned in 63 countries, with Spain nearly at the bottom of the list.

Should he be flown to Spain, Larrañaga will join a fraternity of favored criminals whose crimes hit the headlines in the last two decades but who, in the nine years of Arroyo’s term, have been able to walk away from their Philippine prisons. Male privilege coupled with social and political clout results in gross injustice.
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[cebulifer]

people declaring that she was asking for it when she dared cuckold a known warlord

Risk taker gyud ning bayhana! hahay!

[reptoid]

Hmmm..I wonder what would be the outcome in (say for example) USA or UK, Germany whatever? Oh, that's right ... arrest and detention, suspension from job followed by dismissal, criminal charges with distinct possibility of prison time. And what would be his lawyer's defense strategy? I did not kill them, I saved them from my henchmen therefore I am a nice man who doesn't need to obey the law.

[KASAAC]

mahilom ra ni for sure kay GMA na ang bahala...

[cebulifer]

maayo pud ning logic ni chavit noh? hehehe!

[Jerry Michael]

mahilom ra ni for sure kay GMA na ang bahala...

Unsapa! Si Chavit goy yawe sa paglingkod ni Gloria sa Malakanyang...dako ang utang kabobot-on niya kang Mr. Sabit si Chavit sa kabit...hehehe! naglukdo na ang warlord ug tae....pwerte sigurong agik-ik ni Bigote noh?

[joremz]

Nagpa-away away lang na kunuhay si chavit ug bigote. As a matter of fact duna reliable source saw them both still frequently seing each other...Kanang mga corrupt, parehas jud na balhibo.Away away kunuhay

[dreadz]

not legally attached?

[ufc_fighterguy]

pareho raman siguro silang duha niduwa ug laing team.
ang nakasayop lang ni chavit kay iyang gidapatan ang babae.
a man doesn't have the right to hit a woman wether they are married or not.