LIBERATED WOMEN - THE NEW FILIPINA

Today I feel like celebrating - acknowledging and taking pride in being a woman. I came across a line this morning about the new Filipina. Actually, it’s an old line but I never paid much attention to it until I came across it again this morning.

Below is an excerpt from THE WOMEN OF THE FIRST QUARTER STORM OF 1970: WOMEN “FULLY ENGAGED IN THE MAKING OF HISTORY”:

 

Ma. Lorena Barros, in “Liberated Women: I described the new Filipina emerging from her participation in the national struggle:

…The new woman, the new Filipina, is first and foremost a militant…

…The new Filipina is one who can stay whole days and nights with striking workers, learning from them the social realities which her bourgeois education has kept from her….. She is a woman who has discovered the exalting realm of responsibility, a woman fully engaged in the making of history…No longer is she a woman- for- marriage, but more and more a woman-for-action. (Ma. Lorena Barros, “Liberated Women II” in Pugad Lawin, Taon 18 Blg 3, Enero-Pebrero 1971: 32

 

Now, here’ s something men should think about if WOMEN RULED THE WORLD:

• A man would no longer be considered a “good catch” because he was breathing.
• Medical research money would be spent on birth control methods for men.
• Women with cold hands would give men prostate exams.
• Baby-sitting, doing dishes and making beds would be considered “Macho”.
• The hem of men’s pants would go up or down depending on the economy.
• Men would be forced to purchase overpriced clothes every season.
• Minnie Mouse would get equal billing with Mickey.
• The ideal weight standard would increase by 40 pounds for women.
• Overweight men would be encouraged to wear girdles.
• PMS would be a legitimate defense in court.
• Men would come with papers showing their true identity, marital and employment status, if they live with their mother, and whether they have had their shots.
• Shopping would be considered an aerobic activity.
• Men would get reputations for sleeping around.
• “Ms Magazine” would have an annual swimsuit issue featuring scantily clad males.
• Men who designed women’s shoes would be forced to wear them.
• Men would not be allowed to eat gas-producing foods within two hours of bedtime.
• Men would be as attentive AFTER marriage as they were before.
• Men would be secretaries for female bosses, working twice as hard for no credit.
• Little girls would read “Snow White and the Seven Hunks”.
• Men would earn 70 cents for every dollar women make.
• Men would bring drinks, chips and dip to women watching soap operas.
• Men would HAVE to get Playboy for the articles, because there would be no pictures.
• Men would be judged entirely by their looks, women by their accomplishments.
• Men would sit around and wonder what WE are thinking.
• Men would pay as much attention to their women as their cars.
• All toilet seats would be nailed down.
• Men would work on relationships as much as they work on their careers.
• TV news segments on sports would never run longer than one minute.
• All men would be forced to spend one month in a PMS simulator.
• Men would have their wedding rings permanently attached so they can’t pretend to be single.
• During mid-life crisis, men would get hot-flashes and women would date 19 year old boys.
• Men would learn phrases like:

1. I’m sorry

2. I love you

3. You’re beautiful

4. Of course you don’t look fat in that outfit

5. Go to sleep-I’ll take care of the baby

– Author Unknown

~ by 32flavors on September 28, 2007.