Elaisha Nelle Espinosa
EN 10 – E02
Mars Over Venus Men and women had once set the standards for gender equality to flourish in a society, disregarding any thought of dominance between the sexes, yet with the onset of a more modernized world, people began to dictate what a male should do, and what a female should do. With this, gender stereotyping has developed itself into an “ideally-structured” way of life through which most humans struggle to attain self-worth and identity transparency. We’ve come a long way into seeing men as a figure of dominance and strength while women as a stature of humility and meekness, which later on raised the bar too high for women to equal themselves with men. As such, one might sense my great defiance towards men overpowering the women force. Aside from the fact that I, myself, am a female, I strongly believe, that we, women should be leveled with men. We’ve wasted centuries seeing girls merely as part of the household while boys are able to excel in their respective fields. We struggled with the naivety we, ourselves made back in the past years and this until now, had crawled its way up, for me to even notice it inside the Ateneo campus. Yes, my stay here in Ateneo has somehow proven that women are deemed not as men’s equals, and this is something I hate about being a woman. Firstly, it seems so easy for men to just project their true selves in public without any inhibitions while we, women have to act like preppy Disney princesses who would always look after their images to society. A group of college jocks, for example, would walk through the SEC walk, blasting the place with their oh-man-that-was-so-f*cking-awesome kind of conversations. They would then give each other the manliest high fives ever, matched with a Michael Duncan-pitched voice. And while these boys act pretty much like One Direction lads on a