You've got to love the Philippines. According to advocate.com, Philippine police have issued a warning to officers not to sway their hips or display other suggestive behavior while on duty or they could risk losing their jobs. What a great country where you have to issue an warning like this! I wish that they would have to issue a warning like that in the U.S. "All you hot cops stop swaying your hips and grabbing your crotches or you'll be fired." Ah, what a perfect world it would be.
How prevalent could this problem have been that an official warning had to be issued and international attention drawn to epidemic? That's a lot of hip swaying! Philippine National Police Spokesman Chief Superintendent Samuel Padilao said that the department doesn't discriminate based on one's sexual orientation, but it does scrutinize conduct of those in uniform. I have to say, having spent some time with someone from the Philippines, his perception of living there was that homophobia was rampant. While there is a growing acceptance of gays, it is by no means an out and about kind of society. This leads me to wonder whether the prohibition against hip swaying is actually the result of systematic homophobia within the police force. This could be some awkward way of dealing with gays on the force. Maybe its a kind of Don't Ask, Don't Sway policy.
How prevalent could this problem have been that an official warning had to be issued and international attention drawn to epidemic? That's a lot of hip swaying! Philippine National Police Spokesman Chief Superintendent Samuel Padilao said that the department doesn't discriminate based on one's sexual orientation, but it does scrutinize conduct of those in uniform. I have to say, having spent some time with someone from the Philippines, his perception of living there was that homophobia was rampant. While there is a growing acceptance of gays, it is by no means an out and about kind of society. This leads me to wonder whether the prohibition against hip swaying is actually the result of systematic homophobia within the police force. This could be some awkward way of dealing with gays on the force. Maybe its a kind of Don't Ask, Don't Sway policy.
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