TWO female lawmakers on Friday joined the growing clamor against a plan to show a “sex video” of Sen. Leila de Lima during a congressional inquiry, saying it would be misogynist, not to mention illegal.

Diwa party-list Rep. Emmeline Aglipay-Villar, head of the House Committee on Women and Gender Equality, said the plan being pushed by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre 2nd was “unacceptable and reprehensible.”

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