Ever wondered why as a young man, one should forego a seat to elderly people and ladies, and follow “ladies first” rule? It is easy to understand why one is encouraged to give up the seat to elderly people, but it is kind of complex to give up a seat to a lady especially one has the same age as one. Giving up a seat to elderly people is quite comprehensible because in Philippine’s culture, one is being taught to have this respect, but for the ladies? Why?
Giving up a seat to a lady in the Philippines setting is a sign of one being a gentleman, because gentleman always have this mindset of letting the ladies first, walking on the side where one is dangerous than the other, pulling a chair to let a lady seat, are some of the ways of the gentlemen. It is understood in the Philippine’s setting prioritizing a lady is an act of being a gentleman mainly because the culture taught the Filipinos to do so. In other setting like America, if one gives up a seat to a lady, then one is going to be called as a sexist. A community issue of today, sexism is the perception that a gender is better than the other; hence there is a need to discuss the causes, the effects, and the preventions of sexism.
There are so many imperfections in life, sexism is one of them. Sexism is caused by pride, differences (physically), culture and tradition, and likes. Pride is a way where one is a full of himself. One tends to act according to ego in which one is inconsiderate of the feelings of others. Physical Difference is more of the appearances that man and woman distinctively possessed. Man is created with broad shoulders and woman is created with slim shoulders are some of the many examples. Culture and tradition, is more of a practice passed from generations to generations. Woman before is considered to be inferior while man superior. Likes are more of preferences to things in life like: color, man is red and woman is pink; man plays robot toys and woman plays stuff toys. Sexism is still evident today because those people who practice sexism is still somehow conventional in thinking.
When there are causes of sexism, there are effects of sexism. The effects of sexism are: inequality and low self-esteem. Inequality is a situation that one sex is not at the same level as another sex so the gap between the two genders is elongated far from each other in a way that the two genders become strangers to each other, that’s why sexism has the chance to barge in because of the situation. The treatment is also somehow different because same genders complement each other making another gender somehow angry and jealous that is why one gender tends to have this sexism-like feeling toward that gender. Low self-esteem, one has this kind of problem when one does not have enough confidence because of the teasing and bullying suffered from the opposite gender. Teasing and bullying are caused by pride, differences (physically), culture and tradition, and likes. The farther is the distinctiveness, the bigger is the teasing and bullying.
Here are some of the examples of sexism in different situations in life: domestic violence. Men are likely to become more violent (like homicide and murder) than women no matter who start the conflict (“Sexism”,n.d.); rape. According to Mary Odem and Jody Clay- Warner, men rape women is not caused by some cognitive problems but because of the belief that men are more superior to women (“Sexism”,n.d.); education. Way back, women were never included in schooling, even if they were, they never had the chance to study what they like (“Sexism”,n.d.). According to research, male students are often receiving compliments than female does from the teachers (“Sexism”, n.d.); military service. In military cases, men are obliged to go to military when they are at the right age (18), but women are not required to go to military (“Sexism”, n.d.).
Sexism is something that majority don’t want to have in the society because it tends to bring people down in a way that there is no equality. In order to stop sexism, there must be preventions. Sexism can be prevented by accepting and tolerating others. Acceptance is something that one has trust between others because if one has 100% trust on others, then one has acceptance. Tolerance is accepting others despite of difficulty. Situations in life are never easy, because it needs steps by steps especially if it is about tolerating what one dislikes. Prevention can be done to sexism if one could apply acceptance and tolerance.
Sexism is a perception that a gender is better than another gender. It has causes and effects to many parts of life. It is such a major problem, but it can be prevented by having acceptance and tolerance.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism
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Co-education
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As people grow more and more experienced and knowledgeable, they tend to explore on new ideas. Since the world of today is a modernized one, people living on earth are being creative to help and make life easier. In a modernized world, there are many problems, and one of them is education. “Education is the key to success” is really a nice motto because everything in the universe is concepts, and as human-beings, they need these ideas to understand more about things. So a little mistake in teaching these concepts means a lot.
People suggest co-education and single-sex education because they think they think specifically one helps boys and girls develop their potentials to the fullest. As a solution to bring better education to both boys and girls, they should attend the same school. The writer prefers co-education instead of single-sex education because most schools today are organized this way, but that is not the only reason, there are more reasons.
Co-education is a style of education that allows boys and girls to study in the same school. In this type of education, boys and girls are equal in terms of treatment because teachers do not biased one gender for another. It is being applied to majority of the schools today basically the schools believe that co-education is better than single-sex education.
In a 1998 survey from the American Association of University Women, report noted “boys and girls both thrive when the elements of good education are there, elements like smaller classes, focused academic curriculum and gender-fair instruction” (debate+ boys and girls should attend separate schools”). In co-education boys and girls influence each other in behaviours and maturity-specifically more on girls influencing boys because girls are more matured and responsible when they are at the same age (“debate+ boys and girls should attend separate schools”). Boys and girls are enhanced better if they have competitiveness in them, hence since co-education could bring this era of competition, this type of education could help them improve academically.
Co-education is better than single- sex education because it lessens the probability of having sexism as an issue to the society (the writer’s view). Since sexism is a major problem today, as much as possible it must be contained. In co-education students have a better chance of learning the differences of both genders because in single-sex education, the interaction of boys and girls are not much. In nature, God created not just Adam nor just Eve, but Adam and Eve because God knows they can live together, improve one another and complement one another. As in reality the same goes because girls need boys and boys need girls to stay the best they can.
Single-sex education is good in some cases but co-education is still better although single-sex education has some points. In single-sex education, the students do not need to mind other gender to pressure them. It gives one gender the full identity because one gender can fully express what they like most without pressure from another gender.
Co-education is really better than the single-sex education (the writer’s view) because both genders influence each other. Boys and girls can learn better because both genders can be contagious in studies and in this way, they can do better together. It also prevents sexism because it gives boys and girls spaces to really communicate, and this really lessens the probability of sexism being built at early stages.
As people grow more and more experienced and knowledgeable, they tend to explore on new ideas. Since the world of today is a modernized one, people living on earth are being creative to help and make life easier. In a modernized world, there are many problems, and one of them is education. “Education is the key to success” is really a nice motto because everything in the universe is concepts, and as human-beings, they need these ideas to understand more about things. So a little mistake in teaching these concepts means a lot.
People suggest co-education and single-sex education because they think they think specifically one helps boys and girls develop their potentials to the fullest. As a solution to bring better education to both boys and girls, they should attend the same school. The writer prefers co-education instead of single-sex education because most schools today are organized this way, but that is not the only reason, there are more reasons.
Co-education is a style of education that allows boys and girls to study in the same school. In this type of education, boys and girls are equal in terms of treatment because teachers do not biased one gender for another. It is being applied to majority of the schools today basically the schools believe that co-education is better than single-sex education.
In a 1998 survey from the American Association of University Women, report noted “boys and girls both thrive when the elements of good education are there, elements like smaller classes, focused academic curriculum and gender-fair instruction” (debate+ boys and girls should attend separate schools”). In co-education boys and girls influence each other in behaviours and maturity-specifically more on girls influencing boys because girls are more matured and responsible when they are at the same age (“debate+ boys and girls should attend separate schools”). Boys and girls are enhanced better if they have competitiveness in them, hence since co-education could bring this era of competition, this type of education could help them improve academically.
Co-education is better than single- sex education because it lessens the probability of having sexism as an issue to the society (the writer’s view). Since sexism is a major problem today, as much as possible it must be contained. In co-education students have a better chance of learning the differences of both genders because in single-sex education, the interaction of boys and girls are not much. In nature, God created not just Adam nor just Eve, but Adam and Eve because God knows they can live together, improve one another and complement one another. As in reality the same goes because girls need boys and boys need girls to stay the best they can.
Single-sex education is good in some cases but co-education is still better although single-sex education has some points. In single-sex education, the students do not need to mind other gender to pressure them. It gives one gender the full identity because one gender can fully express what they like most without pressure from another gender.
Co-education is really better than the single-sex education (the writer’s view) because both genders influence each other. Boys and girls can learn better because both genders can be contagious in studies and in this way, they can do better together. It also prevents sexism because it gives boys and girls spaces to really communicate, and this really lessens the probability of sexism being built at early stages.
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