From the rest of us WEmen

By Emmanuelle

This is the last issue before the May 14 election. Let me take this opportunity therefore to wish Good Luck, God Bless to my friends, skirted or in slacks, long-haired or bald, daring or dared, idealistic or idealized. . .

Congressman Mark Cojuangco and Kimi Cojuangco and her Tattan Sison! team whose sortie in the boondocks I have joined and enjoyed – Vice Mayor Ben Sakio Marinas, Atty. Mina Joy Pangasinan, Eric Biason, Juanito and Frederick Lagmay, Eleuterio Reyes, Dominador Padua, and Samson Murao.
  

Pozorrubio’s Emma Chan and her Ipagpatuloy ang Progreso team Dr. Carlos Gramata, Attorneys Sahlee Aldana and Joseph Frianeza, Engineers Joseph Buen, Dean Cancino and Jong Cervantes, Kelvin Chan, Mario Estaris and Dennis Uy.

You have done your cleanest, fairest best during the campaign. Now, let God and His people do the rest.

oOo

My friends and I are not the only ones who have raised our fists about the issue of discrimination against women. More than one time, men have joined us. Children, too. Admirable species who have sprung from women, who were bought up by women, who were cared for by women, and whose lives and decisions are being continually influenced by women. Those who are women-at-heart, and I do not necessarily mean those with indeterminate sex; but count them in too.  All those who recognize and hold precious the power of women over their lives.

It had been a cause for endless debates – was it ever proven  or documented, categorically and irrefutably and indubitably, that man was created first and woman was wrought out of that first man’s rib? Or for that matter, that the first human creation ever molded by God was a man and that the second thought was a woman?

My friends and I believe that it was never absolutely decreed beyond doubt and contention that man was to reign supreme over that of woman in strength, position and treatment in this world regardless of intellectual and emotional quotient. And in consequence, it never was definitely described that woman shall be regarded as basically secondary in nature – weaker in frame, bone structure, musculature, etc.  

To raise a point against a sermon by a parish priest. Why blame Eve forthe very human weakness of having giving in to temptation dangled by an uncommonly-wise talking reptile, then tempting Adam to commit the first sin that made men mortals everafter rather than immortals? We believe there was a very simple explanation to this event which was intentionally ignored by bible historians.

It just so happened that Adam was asleep at the time. When you are asleep, you can’t help but be immune to temptation. That was why Eve was talking to the reptile in the first place. She had no one to talk to or to tempt at that particular vulnerable moment in time. When you are horny, you can be corny. Hah! While Adam snored, Eve talked to a snake. It would have been better to talk to a crocodile, a reptile just as deadly. At least the crocodile will not sweet-talk Eve to temptation. It can snap back though, or chase Eve around to jog her thin prelude to swallowing her whole. A snake just hands over an apple, very unexciting. And bible history crucified Eve for that?

Take an example nearer to home. You have a mango tree in your backyard, its delicious fruits paper-wrapped against insects, the neighbors and you. You have a father who forbids you or anyone to pick any of these fruits without his say-so. You have a husband who sleeps more than he works because your father owns all the real estate around anyway. I’ll bet you all the durian fruits in Mindanao – you will manage to sungkit a mango somehow, sometime.

Anyway, this article started as a comment on women discrimination. It hip-swayed to Adam and Eve. Arms akimbo, it raised the issue of temptation, marital frustration, etcera.

 Actually, honestly, I am just mad that a local INC had chosen to support the male oppositionist rather than the female candidate in one Pangasinan town. The INC’s alleged reason: a woman’s place is in the home, not in the munisipyo.

I am not mad at their choice, but at the why not. 

May the entire chauvinistic membership of this sect stand forever corrected. And may this same chauvinistic membership remain standing until their mothers say so. Or until all their grandmas, aunts, sisters, wives, daughters say so. 

(For past columns, click http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/category/opinion/feelings/)

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