Thanks for drawing our attention to that. I had no idea that he was (by their standards) ultra-liberal. That being said, Duterte was also weak on sociocultural issues.

Things have been moving in the pozzed, Western direction there, but I guess we can expect the Philippines to really start following the West in earnest if Marcos is going to trigger the slippery slopes of abortion, divorce and alphabet nonsense. However, there are plenty of queers and trans and similar types around; they just aren't as much a centre of attention as their Western counterparts. Things definitely aren't going well in their university system, for example, some of which became clear bastions of anti-Duterte 'yellowtards' over the past few years.

There's something of a fight between populism (Duterte family), liberal-pluralist pro-Western bullshit (Marcos) and a vaguely Christian cuckservatism (Aquinos) going on there.

Thanks for drawing our attention to that. I had no idea that he was (by their standards) ultra-liberal. That being said, Duterte was also weak on sociocultural issues.

Things have been moving in the pozzed, Western direction there, but I guess we can expect the Philippines to really start following the West in earnest if Marcos is going to trigger the slippery slopes of abortion, divorce and alphabet nonsense. However, there are plenty of queers and trans and similar types around; they just aren't as much a centre of attention as their Western counterparts.