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| The Socially Constructed Stigma: Women as Lesser People, A Literary Research
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Abdon Alfred D. Ticsay, LPT
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Abstract:
This literary research framed a comparative study between the stories "Footnote to Youth" by Jose Garcia Villa and "The Wedding Dance" by Amador Daguio, which aimed to determine how the female characters are portrayed in the different scenarios of both stories, specifically, focused on the different portrayal and treatment they have experienced on their marital status. The lens of the feminist approach was used to scrutinize and go beyond the true meaning of what they have in each story. Both stories showed how male characters receive special treatment from society and how women, especially in marriage, receive inequalities. Based on the findings, women can show others their weaknesses and strengths. Hence, even today, the culture of Filipinos' perceptions of their children when they are getting married has not changed. It is still an embedded issue that when the family's daughter decides to be married, parents are overprotective and often disagree. While, for the son, it was receiving favor. Furthermore, when a couple cannot bear and produce offspring, women get the most blame and are often deemed incapable, and men are spared. Upon consideration, in a society that is dominated and controlled by men, women are still receiving discrimination and stereotypes.
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