Comments on: Not That Kind of Man

By: Marocharim

Marocharim — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:21:44 +0000

You don’t have to, actually, you’re free to disagree. I suggest reviewing your texts before taking on a defensive position based on culture.

While machismo did spread to us through cultural diffusion, you should also be aware that women’s rights and precepts of justice also spread to us in the same way. Again, I’m not denying the existence of violence against women, it exists. Yet the presence of a cultural fact alone should be enough to justify its existence and persistence. Your other parallel is cultural change; culture does not exist in a vacuum, and it is not frozen in time.

Side dish: where you got the term “outgrowth of general economic feudalism,” from the blossoms of jacaranda trees? Just curious.

By: Filipino Culture

Filipino Culture — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:49:04 +0000

I don’t think I can agree with this. All you need to do to get a FACT CHECK about your generalizations is to look at other Hispanic/Latino countries that share our history (colonized by Spain/macho tradition/etc). Tulfo’s position is very common in those societies. Whether this is a mere outgrowth of general economic feudalism, I’m not sure. Regardless, the parallels are there–regardless of how we’d like to think otherwise about the “new” Pinoy male attitude.

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By: Ishmael

Ishmael — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:00:08 +0000

I agree with you.

Not all men will resort to beat up their wife when they caught them having an affair with another man.

Tulfo generalized too much.

His article is a clear message to all Tulfo’s girlfriends, kabits, and wife that they will be punched to death if they were ever caught.