In Schindler's List, she and her board members objected to certain scenes because of breast exposure and a pumping scene. In the award-winning The Piano, she again objected to its showing because it showed that the devil was at work, or so she said. In Belle Epoque, the sex scenes were objected to, for the same reasons. She is at it again, and with the most ridiculous excuse to use her scissors on yet another film. Every one, schoolchildren included, has seen sketches and drawings of the human body and everyone has seen pubic hair.
Pubic hair is as natural as the hair on one's head or on one's legs and armpits.
How dare she speak for the Filipino people and dictate to us what is moral, good and injurious to our prestige. At the moment, with Mendez pretending to be the guardian of Filipino morality, as well as the authority on contemporary Filipino cultural values and good customs, we have become the laughing stock of the film world. It is not in the culture of Filipino men and women to shave off their pubic hair, although it is in the culture of Filipino women to shave their legs and armpits. Still, even seeing Sylvana Mangano years ago in Bitter Rice, with hair on her armpits, does not constitute bad taste. Mendez's judgment of an XX rating for Bridges of Madison County for the display of Streep's pubic hair does.