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When it comes to gender issues and championing women’s rights, Pia Cayetano’s politics has a track record of being selective and self-serving
Pia Cayetano’s political instinct of pulling out the gender card when it serves her is again very much apparent.
The continuously evolving Senate spectacle that started with former police chief Ronald dela Rosa running from law enforcement agents and resisting arrest (and also later crying about it), now has another episode that no one asked for.
Cayetano’s emotional meltdown after Senator Risa Hontiveros’ remarks about the chamber’s semblance of a “return to normalcy” following the May 13 shooting incident. Except for Loren Legarda who offered an embrace and someone else who offered a box of tissues, Cayetano’s tears did not stir any sympathy. It did, however, expose a familiar pattern of Cayetano using the politics of gender when it serves her political objectives.
