As Women's Month ushers in our need to focus on women's issues, let me mention the shooting of the van of a popular actress, who has a Chinese name. The incident shows the lowest regard for women in our country. And when you listen to a radio program that focuses on problems of lovers and quasi lovers, you will realize that the conflicts arise from warring women over a man. Or a woman has dcided to fly to another man's arms showing how the idea of forever and ever love is going, going, gone.
How come our country is not so welcoming of our women? What is it about our wimen, or how do they behave so much so that some men are just dismissive of them, or have a derisive attitude towards them? In fact gay men seem to be gaining more social approval than women.,
Look at TV and listen to radio. Feminist broadcasters are lacking in number. Having their voices on radio does not insure that we shall hear liberated thoughts for women, though, not all the time that is.
I used to have a TV program in a government TV station after the People Power Movement in 1986. When it was axed, I tried entering a commercial TV station. Do you know what the station manager did? In a lunch meeting with him, he started caressing my right hand, as I had sat beside him. Because of his behavior, I stopped following up my proposal. God bless his soul now. Couch casting is how it is called, Ms. Olive had told me.
Safeguards are not there yet for women to be able to rise up the ladder without being aecually harassed.
By the way, I find highly boggling that slogan " We make change work for women." What intellectual slogan is that? Ang pagbabago ay ginagawa naming magtrabaho para sa kababaihan. Wow! How erudite and how blurry if we are going to think of our rural and labiur women who can hardly eke out a living.
At saka bakit i pe personify ang salitang "change?" Sinong tao yan? Tao ba yang si " change?" Jan natin makikita na out of touch ang ilang women leaders natin sa buhay ng nakararaming kababaihan.
Isa pa yung radio ad na tintatawag ang ating pansin sa "catcalls." Sinong Ka Sela o Ka Pat ang marunong ng salitang yan? Pang middle class educated people lang yan, puwede ba? Sumusuweldo sila para magkaroon ng intelektuwal na pananaw ang kababaihan sa kung ano ang pagiging malaya? Natamo ba ito sa tagal ng pag e ere ng ad na ito? Ang labu-labo pa ng singing sounds sa beginning. Parang tinipid ang recording.
Naiinis ako kasi may trabaho sila na may budget at kalinya na para palawakin ang ating pang-unawa sa kalagayan ng kababaihan pero lumalabas na gumagawa sila ng mga produkto ng media para lamang sa iisang sektor ng lipunan.
Paano dapat ipi presenta ang catcalling sa madla? Dapat yung babae na pinasaringan ng bastos na pananalita, lalapit sa lalapit sa mga lalaki at pagsasabihan sila, sa halip na boses ng lalaki ang magsesermon sa mga bastos na sanggano. "Hoy, bakit kayo ganyan umarte? Isusummbong ko kayo sa baranggay sa pambabastos niyo." At strpagkatapos my darating na tanod at hihulihin ang mga nam bastos. Hindi ba mas efectibo yun? The woman. is active, not passive and takes control of the situation. Pinaganda pa ang imahe ng baranggay.
Please, subject your ads to evaluation of women's groups from at least three sectors : workers, professionals and homemakers, including businesswomen before airing.
Let us have a multi-sectoral participation of women in our gender and development units and these should be run by women, not by men, Let women plan, develop programs and direct projects.
Actions against Violence against women will be much more meaningful if women are taking up the cudgels, instead of being passive recipients of the "goodness" of men.
Let us make International Women's Day, March 8, meaningful for women, most of all.
Illustration by Dreamtime.com
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