Love in the cornhusks is a story about a servant, Tinang who recently got pregnant and moved to her Bagobo husband’s house. She visited her old senora’s house and on her way home she found out that her lover, Amado is still in love with her through a letter and the reason he has been gone is that his mother had fallen ill. This greatly saddened Tinang because we could infer that Tinang only married the Bagobo so that her child would not grow up fatherless or to have someone with her.
The corral shows the life of Pilar, a woman who gave up teaching to take care of her father and to stay away from Mr. Perfecto, her UGLY UGLY suitor who says that in the end, Pilar will love him as well. Pilar also shows a physical attraction for Gregorio, a guy who is extremely hot yet someone who does not notice her. She shows a feeling of being trapped, trapped from Mr Perfecto, her father and her lust for Gregorio. It seems that she feels like she is in a point of her life were she needs something to happen fast, to change her and if nothing does happen she may just settle to what’s in front of her or within her reach.
The two stories show how women before rely on someone to make them whole and at the end dedicate their lives to a man well in fact, it should be the other way around because it is the woman who does all the work for the man. It is the man who should have felt incomplete. (Sexist ba?) Tinang settled for the Bagobo and Pilar is contemplating to settle for whatever because she feels she really has no choice because she feels once again traped. As a woman, I am really happy that this is not evident in our culture anymore. We have a sense of empowerment and freedom to live equally with men and to be self sufficient individuals
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As a woman, I am really happy that this is not evident in our culture anymore. We have a sense of empowerment and freedom to live equally with men and to be self sufficient individuals
I am glad that you feel this way because I do too but I think (men and) women still have to battle prejudices based on stereotypes and are still pressured to conform to norms of society but in different ways.
While there have been great strides against sexism, it still does exist. Aside from that, some people still feel that they are not good enough for the things that they really want and settle for something less.
Don't get me wrong though, I'm not disagreeing with you or anything, just sharing :)
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