I would want to share what I have found out in a very good movie which perfectly depicts gender inequality in our nation and that’s Ang pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros. In this movie, I was able to ask several questions regarding gender inequality in our country and I may say that true indeed that our society is still in the midst of struggling on how to view gender. In the movie, it made me ponder on what gender would really mean since, in the film it was implicitly projecting to us that our society has been looking at gender in two faces: first, the differences between the sexual organs and two, the roles that they are giving to an individual. If we are going to take things biologically, true that there are only 2. However, still, when we dig on to the sciences, it was also proven that there are other bases aside from merely looking at what your sexual organ is. The problem with most society is that, we tend to label and decide on how an individual should behave given that he/she has that kind of genital. What if, like in the case of Maxine, ‘she’ is a ‘he’ but the role that ‘she’ has to perform is that of a girl. Now there has been a conflict in how to label him/her. Maxine feels that ‘he’ is a ‘she’. But the society wouldn’t allow ‘him’/’her’ to be. Just a piece of thought on this film, it’s indeed hard for us to determine one’s gender if we’ll only refer to his/her action and role as the bases for it. Because, if we’ll scrutinize all the cultures of the world, it would only goes to show that all of us has no specific gender and that the only moment that we’ll be able to have one is when our culture and society will label us on one.
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