Magdangal Demonstration Rules

What is Magdangal Demonstration?

Named after the female Magdangal statue on University of Philippines (UP). This idea would like to raise awareness of gender equality by give females the opportunity to raise awareness for worthy causes in their pure form.

The first step is for women who wish to support a cause of their choosing to be photographed nude, but with their faces masked, on the UP campus. These photos should, at first, be taken at times and places where there are no other people around. The photos can be submitted to this blog through an anonymous email account, and not even me (the blog owner) will know the identity of the people involved.

With her photo, the woman should submit a appeal to support a cause or contribute to a legitimate charity. The appeal should not exceed 100 words.  If the blog owner determines that the photo and appeal are in accordance with the rules listed below, blog owner will post them on this blog-Magdangal Demonstration Page.

Women who wish to submit photos should abide by the following rules:

  1. All persons in the photo, including persons who are not nude, must be 18 years old or older. There are no exceptions, and any photo that appears, in the opinion of the blog owner, to contain any person under 18 will not be posted and the email containing the photo will be immediately deleted. Oblation Run videos on the internet sometimes have images of spectators who are obviously under 18. The Magdangal demonstrations are not yet publicly approved as the Oblation runs are, so our standards must be higher.
  2. Each photo must have at least one nude female. The ideal photo would be of a woman completely nude except for body paint and a mask, but this is not required. A woman may submit a photo with partial nudity, such as a photo in which the camera has a view under the skirt of a woman without underwear. Photos like that are also acceptable. Body paint is suggested because it is very popular with female streakers in other countries, but it is not required. The woman may be photographed wearing a mask, or the photo can be altered to put a mask over the woman’s face after she is photographed. If a photo is submitted showing a woman without a mask, it will be accepted, but the blog owner may edit the photo to mask the woman’s face. I hope that the Magdangal demonstrations become acceptable so masks can be optional in the future.
  3. No person in the photo can be engaged in sexual behaviour, touching their genitals, or engaged in any activity that is, in the opinion of the blog owner, pornographic.
  4. The photo should be taken on a UP campus that hosts Oblation Runs. The woman may be photographed either indoors or outdoors. It would be best to take the photo at a recognizable location so people familiar with UP would know the woman was photographed on campus, but this is not required. If a woman who is a student at UP wants to submit a photo taken at an off campus location, that could also be acceptable, if the blog owner agrees that there is a good reason for the photo location.
  5. No person in the photo can be doing anything that poses a danger either to themselves or others. For example, a photo of a nude woman by a busy highway, where she could distract the drivers, would not be acceptable.
  6. No person in the photo can be doing anything to prevent others from using public property that they are legally permitted to use. We know that the Oblation Run does not have this rule, but our standards are higher.
  1. The cause the Magdangal demonstrator chooses to support cannot advocate violence, racism, sexism, or ideologies that the blog owner considers inappropriate to the spirit of the Magdangal demonstrations.