'misogynist' kiss is a "despicable display of sexism and grave abuse of authority" Philippines president kisses a journalist woman after giving her a free book. CNN doesn't take it well.

perplexedm · 2018-06-04T13:24:36+00:00

According to Philippines state media PNA, the woman, identified as Bea Kim, is married to a South Korean national and has two children. Kim said that there was "no malice" in the kiss, and that it didn't "mean anything except to entertain and make other Filipinos in the gathering happy."

That is all to the story. We all should be the last to criticize decisions of filipino women.

2018-06-04T14:02:00+00:00

I have an understanding of how/why people can interpret affection as hatred and i'm gonna type it out here, hopefully it may be of value to someone.

We all may think we know what affection is, what hatred is, love, fear, etc. Well, these are merely words, and so a fine hair can be split between love as a feeling and 'love' as a word.

Suppose you meet someone who does not speak english, and you are teaching them. But you troll them, you tell them that 'dork' is a polite term of respect. Maybe he observes an instance of someone using dork as an insult but you explain 'the tone, to say it in such a tone, sarcastically, in anger, is a grave insult'. The next day at his job interview he reaches for the interviewers hand and says "I'm pleased to meet you dork."

As children, infants, we do not speak english. People commonly explain emotion words to small children by reference to the family. "love is the feeling you have for your mom", 'hatred, that's like what you feel when you see a bad guy"

But better words for what some toddlers feel about their mothers are 'fear', 'shame', 'disgust'. And better words for what some people feel about bad boys are 'lust', 'attraction', intrigue'.

So, fast forward 30 years and get people who seek 'love' - they find partners who make them feel fear, disgust, shame. They feel attraction and they call it 'hatred'.

GreyTortoise · 2018-06-04T16:13:11+00:00

She didn't seem to be upset over it.

Also, Duterte isn't exactly the best person in the world. It's not like you're going to be able to prove #menaretrash by pointing at Philippino Hitler.

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