October 4 – October 10, 2010
For this week, Faye and Glenn would not be staying with us anymore since they already finished their radio internships in DZUP. So Gender-ation was left to Chi and me. And our topic was on “Women Empowerment”. I honestly felt like this topic was not for me. Why? Because as I always tell the others, “I am sexist but not necessarily a feminist.” Plus this topic was so broad and too heavy to discuss. Good thing, Ate I extended her help by looking for songs related to our topic and she even joined us into hosting that episode.
At first, I was kinda lost for words. After all, I am not an advocate of feminism, so women empowerment and the like was not a big deal for me. However, as Chi and Ate I were having an exchange of views, in fairness, I was able to share the same sentiments and perspectives with them. We talked about how discrimination and stereotyping could really affect how women view or position themselves as individuals at home and in the society at large. That was why, we pointed out that a number of notions about women are totally biased if not wrong. Being a woman is not just about pro-creation and being the overly sensitive one or the clingy one. Basically, all of these notions trapped women as to how we see them in our society, as to how they must act in our society. We as hosts therefore tried to break these notions and explained as to why at times women tend to be like this. And that importantly, we must view women as not being a lesser or inferior gender compared to men. That what these men can do, women can do also.
I really think this topic could really open the eyes and minds of those people who still have that conventional thinking of women as weak and inferior species. I, myself was a bit astounded as to the manner of how highly I disapproved on women discrimination even if I’m not a feminist at all. Surely, being open to these kinds of issues and making a stand on them could not hurt at all.
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LAU QUIRIMIT
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