"When I was in the Philippines, I met with the family and I met the husband of the one of the women. He was very chauvinistic.
He would say, "Whatever I say, everyone follows. I'm the man of the house." He would blame his wife and she would be silent.
So told him, "If my husband ever talked to me like that, I would slap him in his face." That was when everybody [other family members] got silent.
I asked him, "Why do you not let your wife speak? Doesn't she have a mind of her own? Isn't she a human."
He didn't know what to say. But I saw the wife and she started crying.
By the end my time there, the husband had changed, almost like 360. He was like a duck."
I think my mother meant 180 and I'm not quite sure what she meant by "duck". Nonetheless, when I heard this story, I said to myself, thats some straight up critical Pinayist Pedagogy without her even knowing the term.
Happy mothers day to all the moms out there that continue to transform the world.
-ARISTYLES
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