This comment is by no means aimed at contradicting your article but a way to offer a wider perspective and offers an open discussion. No offense meant against women but here are my thoughts:
We always cry for gender inequality, bias, sexism etc etc BUT this article only talks about women, if there is a law on violence against women is there a law on violence against men? - there's NONE, so how is that promoting equality?
you cited reports from the UN about violence against women but have you compared (or is there any report at all) the cases whereby men are violated?
if we think about this logically, we can't form an equation if there's only one side we are looking at.
don't you think maybe the reason why there are no reports of such cases is because society have painted a culture that it's un-manly (if that word exist) to say *a woman violated me (a man)! * -- how is this equality ?
women have a choice to be strong
women have a choice to be well educated and are even better than men
women have a choice to succeed in any fronts
In my opinion, if we keep on promoting violence against women, women's rights, equality, bla bla bla etc. the more that we put pressure on ourselves and create distance between men and women at the same time, also creating that atmosphere of inequality.
My counter proposition is, how about we promote Gender Sensitivity and Gender Awareness ? - we both recognize men's and women's strengths and weaknesses, we accept it and respect each other.
I am actually going to do a separate article about the gender stratification between men and women. I'm very sorry for making this article biased and insensitive. I will edit it to specify that this article is focused on women's side and I am in the process of making an article about men being violated, etc. Again, I'm very sorry.
Still, I am glad that somehow I was able to get the attention of some people about this global problem.
You are right, we should promote Gender Sensitivity and Gender Awareness instead.
Oh, I actually did specify:
Thank you.
yes you did and I noticed that. i guess my point is, we can better communicate the change we want by being more positive about things. we can't just tell every man to treat women equally and tell him he is biased and oppressive at the same time. am i making sense? lol :)
Thank you @precise. There is certainly more work to be done and this discussion is one step to change. My job here is to open a door for discussion about the stratification that still occurs in our society. (Nahurot akong english hahahaha)
mag binisaya na lang ta day! hahaha
pero nice jud imong article, hulaton nako ang part 2 ha ?
Hahaha cge sir. Nagkamulo pajd kog sulat. Daghan kaung salamat sir 😊