BY ROGER M. BALANZA
They wash the dishes. They cook. They do
the laundry. Tend to the children. Bring the kids to school. And worse
they get insulted in public….by their wives.
The days of the battered husband in Davao City may be numbered.
A group espousing “men’s rights” has surfaced to save the battered hubby
from the most cruel of experiences for a male specie in this universe:
being insulted, crucified, laughed at and joked about by friends and
neighbors because they don’t have the heart and courage to stand up to a
partner of Hitlerian blood.
Husbands have rights, too, said Rene Estorpe, president of Men’s Responsibility on Gender and Development (MR GAD).
In what appeared to be a call for war urging battered hubbies to stand
up against dictatorial queens of the house, Estorpe has dished out an
advice if the king of the house is under siege by a husband-battering
wife.
Run to the village council to file a complaint, said Estorpe, village chair of Barangay Agdao in Davao City.
It is time for battered husbands to come out in the open, said Estorpe, who frankly admits he is not a battered husband.
His village of about 7,000 males is widely known as a war zone for domestic quarrels.
But Estorpe, who knows about many battered husbands in his village, is
wondering why only two cases of battery had been brought as a complaint
before the village justice mediation board.
Fear, he said to explain why husbands keep their hell to themselves and endure the suffering in the hands of a satanic partner.
The Philippines has the Act on Violence
Against Women and Children (VAWC) that women conveniently use as legal
remedy against abusive husbands.
There is no law protecting husbands against satanic wives
If there is a law on women’s rights, there should be a law for men’s rights, said Estorpe.
Estorpe bared the newly-established MR GAD at a recent conference in Davao City.
