I'm a woman, very thankful and very grateful
Since I was young and able to see and understand the roles opposite sex can do, I was so thankful that I was born or God made me a woman.My loving brother was made to do so many physical works in the farms that I didn't have to do. Meaning he's in the scorching sun or in the heavy pouring rain farming while I helped my mother do woman chores in the comfort of our home.
In the old traditional values and Filipino culture, women didn't need to go to school and dream of becoming anything than that of a house wife and raise children. My father was different. He asked me what I wanted to do after mandatory schooling and I said: " I want to be a lawyer". So he let me pursue my career against the expectations of my uncles and aunts. But with the support of my great grandmother from Spain and my mother, I rose above that traditional value. And so I became a University professor and traveled the world. I could only be thankful that my father deviated away from such a limited thinking and yet never heard of feminism.
In today's society, it's a fact that women are now entitled of rights that were not available before.
I, too am thankful of that, but I don't use it to ever claim that I'm better without a man and or I can do it all without a man.
Still I'm so grateful that I am a woman. Wear skirts and cry whenever I want to if I have to.
Thanks all for your peruse and comments if any.
