week 4 1040's-50's and current society and social relations

During 1940's and 1950's patriarchy is very important. What the man of the house says is very important. It is like and order or a command that should be done and obeyed. Being a man of the house is like a job that you should do and be perfect of. Because you are the back bone of the family. Parents are very strict on those days, specially on their daughters. Women those days have no freedom. sometimes the father or usually most of the time their father are the one who choose their husband. The fate of their daughter lies upon the father's decision. Women or the eldest daughter is bound to take care of her parents when they are old. this was their culture before. Luckily, during this present time. men and women are treated with balance. sometimes women can be the bread winner of the family if the man of the house can't give enough for the family. Although patriarchy is still visible now a days but there are changes. Our fathers now are open to opinion of their spouse and siblings. women today have a place in society where they can express what they wnat and what they feel. our president in our present time is a woman. this means that from time to time their interpretation for women's right and ability is wrong. women are not anymore trapped with choices that prevent them for expressing their freedom. In relating with the two stories it symbolizes that women before have this certain boundaries of choices and option and in the end they are still trap on it. Eventhough they escape from it and goes sideways still they will end up where they started. but now, women have more choices and resources that they can excel on what they are capable of.

week 3.. how do filipinos react on romance sex and love

i would say that filipinos now a days are very open when it comes to these matters. People used to be conservative but now a days people are more liberal. They usually say that these three comes together first is love then afterwards romance and lastly sex. People think that this is the cycle on how you can establish a relationship. I'm not saying that Filipinos became more aggressive now a days is just that as time goes by we filipinos adapt to what we so called change in culture and in the reality. That is why the essence of love and romance is misinterpreted because people associate it with sex. I feel so lonely that sometimes we people can't see what is love anymore. In the two stories of summer solstice and love in the corn husk. they interpret relationship with lust. women are sex object in the story in the stories.

mats and divide by two

i would say that i find the story the mats, more realistic in a sense that we filipinos are more sentimental when it comes to our families. In our life we cant control death. We must take into consideration that eventhough our family member died we should always remember them in our hearts like what the father in the story did. Eventhogh his other siblings died he still remembered them and even gave them mats to remind the family that they are still part of the family.