WELOSTIT by Romina Gonzalez

Romina Gonzalez's Welostit is a sad-funny story about a love affair between a 35 year old yuppie and her favorite teen-aged nephew's bestfriend, a love affair doomed because such things are not to be even in sophisticated Manila. The story is rich in the sort of detail which enables the reader to "place" the characters securely in their time and place, the sort of detail National Artist Nick Joaquin has always urged upon storytellers, something it has in common with the much shorter Sitoy story. But most important, while trying hard to sound clever and tough (a cardinal rule for yuppiehood), it is very moving. For instance, in the scene when, after coming through painful childbirth, the woman awakes in the middle of the night to find him--the young father of her child -- beside her, with his parents (in whose mind she is the wicked Temptress), and before slipping back into a Demerol-induced haze, hears him whisper, "Welostit, which I thought was what you wanted to name her."

Question: how is Gonzalez's protagonist different from the other female protagonist in this section? Is this a subversive text?