Category Archives: Baguio

Activism, Baguio

The Peeing Statue: A Post Script

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I promised in the previous post to do some assessment on how our collective work resulted in the removal of that peeing statue at the Barrio Fiesta Restaurant. Well, here it is. Feel free to add your points in the comments section. I’m sure I missed out some important things 🙂

1. This is a victory. It is a small victory in the grand scheme of things but it is a victory nonetheless. It is also an easy victory because we are up against a business entity. Businesses, I think, are the most responsive to community feedback because bad publicity can drive away customers. Keeping that peeing statue for whatever purpose is just not worth the trouble for them.

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Activism, Baguio, Culture and Tradition

Let’s Have More Fun

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Is the statue of the peeing Igorot man offensive? You decide in this online poll.


Some updates: Our newest sibling in the blogosphere, Bugan (Mountain Breeze) has a more detailed description of the statues at the Barrio Fiesta Restaurant. In her comment here, she also stated that the Association of Young Igorot Professionals (AYIP) has filed a complaint about the statue. Someone also told me that Cheryl Daytec-Yangot, the lawyer we earlier blogged about [here] for her and her companions’ courageous stand on the nursing scandal, will also look into this. But maybe Cheryl is a part of AYIP.

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Activism, Baguio

More on that Barrio Fiesta Peeing Igorot Man

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Thanks to Sandati for informing me about this Google video which provides a greater context from which one can view the peeing Igorot man. After viewing the video I would agree that there seems to be no intent on the part of Barrio Fiesta restaurant to demean the Igorot image. But does it then mean that the statue of the peeing man is totally harmless? Was I totally off-base in pointing out that the picture depicts us in a bad light and that it reinforces negative stereotypes of Igorots? Definitely not.

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