Why shattering gender stereotypes can be the downfall of toxic masculinity
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) Dr. Nathalie Verceles of the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies says it is about time to break the dichotomy between masculinity and femininity.
In a webinar by CNN Philippines and San Mig Light called “Detox Masculinity: Mahaba-habang usapan on how to beat gender stereotypes,” three panelists, including Verceles, discussed a range of topics on shattering gender norms and stereotypes.
According to the director of the UP Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, it is important not to box people based on their genders. She said that there are good characteristics in both being masculine and feminine.
What was normal is now a room
full of strangers searching the darkness
for someone who kisses
a grandmother who has never gone
this long without embrace. Weren’t we
always afraid that saying you love someone
was a means of killing them slowly?
Oh, the answers we thought we wanted.
We remember the last normal day,
which sounds like a story in the Bible.
Verses containing how we loved
“in the time of Corona”
and in the time of everything else.
Some of us remember better
and some of us see the world
The heart does not always keep