language bias

When i use english in writing or in speaking, i seldom talk or write with bias. I use the appropriate he or she or use he/she when i can refer to both genders. I usually use or have bias when i talk in filipino, only coz i thought it was supposed to be the right way. Like referring to doctors as Doktor and Doktora, I thought it was the proper way. I didn't know till know that its the not the right way, but not many know of is, i think only people who took up or is taking gender classes know the difference...I wasn't aware that you shouldn't say gaga just gago to refer to both male and female.

It's weird that we are not even aware of how we talk and write, we just write the way we got used to.. is it really possible to change the way we talk and write if we got so used to certain things already?

southwest airlines

i was watching ellen de generes the other day and one of the guests was this girl who was going to take a flight from southwest airlines. She was demanded by the flight steward to go down the plane and was not allowed to join the flight just because of what she was wearing.

She was wearing a white mini skirt, a white top and a yellow bolero. She was wearing something casual and a typical teenager would wear. So she was told to go off the plane because her clothes were disturbing, so she got so shocked after minutes of fighting with the flight steward , and the steward's point was "Southwest is a family oriented airline and what she was wearing was very inappropriate. "

This was the first time this ever happened discrimination in an international flight because of what the person was wearing and she was a white blonde girl, so it was really surprising.


Its weird that now they discriminate people based on what they wear irregardless of their color or position in the society. It was very surprising for me and I got very irritated because for me the teenager chose to wear that outfit because that was her own way of expressing herself, and what's worse was that the steward had to put the girl in the spot and she got so embarrassed, he shouldve told the girl properly and just told her off that people got offended with what she was wearing if there were people who actually got offended with what she was wearing. The steward should've approached her in a nice way not to the extent that she couldn't be in the flight because of just what she was wearing, and when the girl demanded for a public apology, they didnt agree to what the girl wanted and they didn't do anything about it.

I now pronounce you chuck and larry

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. The movie stars Adam Sandler and Kevin James as two straight firefighters who pose as a gay married couple in order to qualify for their department’s domestic partner benefits. “They’re as straight as can be, but don’t tell anyone.”


i kinda found this movie interesting, where two guy best friends ended up in a fake gay relationship so that the other guy can continue supporting his kids since his wife had passed away. Then they face struggles and problems in work since they don't like the idea of having firemen that are gay, they do everything together just like ordinary married couples.

Its much easier in the states because its less more conservative there, but not that conservative in a sense that they had a hard time fighting for their relationship even keeping their jobs as firefighters. I didn't see anything wrong with it maybe because they were cheating in a sense that they had a fake relationship but it was for a good cause it was for the kids.

I think it seemed related to genders and how gay people supposedly are not accepted in the society and the struggles they have to just to make their relationship survive.


((http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/03/12/i-now-pronounce-you-chuck-and-larry-movie-poster/)