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BY ANGELICA PFLEIDER
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Standards
“I HAVE my standards.” That is a phrase commonly heard nowadays.
When it comes to clothes, food, shoes, who doesn’t have so-called standards? The word itself is defined as “a level of quality or an idea used as a measure or norm.”
Every person has his/her own standard but what people haven’t noticed is that society itself has developed its own kind of standard that dates back to the times of our forefathers. This is called the “double standard” and sadly enough, it seems to have introduced a quite biased way of looking at genders.
Now I know what you may be thinking, this girl is some misandrist who is going to start ranting about how men are pigs and how women should be the dominant gender, but I don’t want to discuss that.
On the contrary, I see that some extreme feminists seem to use the “double standard” as an excuse for their war against men while actually demeaning themselves.
The term “double standard” means a set of principles that apply differently and usually more rigorously to one group of people – for example, it is viewed as more “acceptable” for a man to have an affair than it is for a woman, or it is okay if a woman has no job but shameful if a man doesn’t.
Two other situations that apply the double standard are the tension between President Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Leila de Lima, and the presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Man vs woman. That is what seems to be the actual theme of these rivalries.
For the Duterte-de Lima conflict, one of the offenses that the senator stated Duterte has against her is that he is taking advantage of her being a woman. I don’t see how that could be. The reason she is being investigated is because of her alleged link to the Bilibid drug trade, and lack of protection on her team’s part is what led to the brainless insults against her.
Leila de Lima being a woman has nothing to do with the drug issue and it seems ironic that Gabriella is backing her up with this. It is almost as if they are supporting the idea that women are constantly persecuted. That is a thought that could be detrimental to women empowerment.
In the race between Trump and Clinton, the media framed it as one of the most memorable elections since it was between a businessman who never had any political experience and a woman. That’s it, just a woman.
It is funny how everyone stressed on how Hillary Clinton could be the first woman president, as if “woman” was a new kind of human species. Clinton had so many achievements (and scandals, sadly) while she was Secretary of State of the Obama administration. Couldn’t people emphasize on her performance instead of her gender?
I stand for equal rights among the genders. I don’t think it is fair that just because you are a man or a woman you could have the upper or lower hand in anything. Gender is gender; it does not affect intelligence, talent or the ability of a person to do anything.
The standards today have even given rise to the emergence of “non-binary” people or people who don’t want to be identified as either gender. I hope there will come a time when people will learn to not set double standards and learn to respect each other not based on their gender but based on who they are as people./PN
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