Bata, Bata Paano Ka Ginawa?
This is shameful as a Filipino film student, but I only got to see Bata Bata Paano Ka Ginawa? yesterday on cable TV. And what do you know, I actually liked the movie with all the issues it carried. I loved the screenplay and the acting was, though overly dramatic at times, fantastic. I’m a sucker for dramas like that.
Even if I’m a guy, I found Lea Bustamante (Vilma Santos) and her struggles admirable and inspiring. I admire women who believe that they should express their desires openly and pursue their dreams without validation from men. I don’t like girls to look at themselves as helpless damsels in distress forever waiting for their knights in shining armor. In the same light, I dislike being automatically expected, as a guy, to be strong all the time, to be chivalrous all the time, to uphold societal expectations of manliness for as long as I live and to avoid expressing my weaknesses as a person. When I get married, I would even insist that my partner keep her maiden name. I don’t want a woman to change a big part of her identity as a person, and take on another family name, just because she gets married.
I do believe in equality of sexes.
No you don’t. You have some anti-feminist undertones kaya on your blog.
im only anti-selective feminism. girls who only cry equality of sexes when its to their benefit and yet drop the call whenever its an inconvenience.
Well, don’t you think “conveneince” feminists deserve it after the treacherous historical treatment of women?
no. thats being hypocritical. thats promoting a cyclical pattern of inequality and gender wars.
Whatever. I believe in tenured equalisers. There is no such thing as “gender wars”. It’s a figment of your imagination Victor.
you studied in an all-girls grade school and high school, celeni.
Whatever. Just to slice the bubbles off the chedar cheese, let’s assume most will definitely cry for equality of ‘both sexes’ regardless of those ‘issues’ being thrown as to ‘which is which’ should be promoted. Biases as I call it to consider historical figures, but still we should be proud on adovocating women empowerment and promote equality with no unilinear preferences (except for considerable particulars which we can enumerate^_^) in all aspects of our society…
Talk about Spanish-influenced ‘machismo’ et al.
right!
I don’t want a woman to change a big part of her identity as a person, and take on another family name, just because she gets married.
talaga ha.
yes patty. would you like to give up your being patty lazatin and forever be a subordinate to a husband just because you got married to him?
who said i was getting married?
in the event that i do, i dont think giving up my name would mean that I forever subordinating myself to my husband. though I’d appreciate the offer, i think i wouldnt mind “giving up” my family name. Does that mean I’m “un-feminist”? Unless of course, I’m an artista and my stage name would already be known as lazatin.
I’d read the book when I was in first year hs… wala lang! haha.. pa’no pala ang sistema (tungkol sa apelyido) pag same sex marriage na ang usapan?
well, wala namang same-sex marriage sa pilipinas. hindi ko alam ang sistema sa ibang bansa
wala bang tagalog version??
la lng,,,,ewan q.. mganda
hallerr everybody …..
wanted a txtmate …….
calmay dag. city…
1st yr. student….