Sexual harassment can happen to anyone. It happened to me.
T’was during my med internship. I was asleep in the quarters beside my male cointern. He was a friend. O so I thought he was. We slept on the mattress on the floor coz we let our pregnant cointern sleep on the bed. (1)
Can’t even apply for a job without submitting school records that are certified true copy and without accomplishing the PDS, ito nanalo pang Mayor? Both my great grandfathers are assimilated mainland Chinese, Ong and Sy, common Chinoy surnames. A Guo surname isn’t common at all.
Senator Risa Hontiveros wants to uncover if Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, who allegedly has links to POGOs, is a Chinese citizen after it was disclosed that she did not have school records and her birth had only been registered when she was 17.
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The point of coming out about this incident is o shed some understanding why victims of sexual harassment stay silent for a long time. It is because of shame, and for a lot of more vulnerable ones, fear for their lives. I beg you, please DO NOT VICTIME BLAME.
What happened to me is nothing compared to women, children, even men, who were raped. If it manage to scar me, what more for them. There is a special place in the deepest pits of hell for sexual predators.