Reflection (UN Infomercial)

A Dream: Possible Together
Women have been reinforcing for equity. History has covered the struggles of women
proving that they are humans as well, and should be treated equally. Human societies have
witnessed how women uphold themselves and how they exhibit their strengths that can level
and sometimes even surpass with men’s.
Previous societies that dated decades ago have set a stratum that dictates women
being inferior to men. It is this orthodox notion that invoked humanity to unfairly view
women as weak and inferior. This view has created a downcast environment where women
are pushed to servanthood. Women, especially in the past, are forced to do all the household
tasks, receive cheap payment, and serve men. Books have even recorded the unjust treatments
of society towards women in history, prohibiting them from going to school to study, and
kept them within the vicinity of their households.
The United Nation’s infomercial, The Impossible Dream portrayed the women’s
struggles in the past and even until now, to some. The infomercial had also somehow
provided a glimpse of what could be a bright and promising result of a successful
reinforcement of equity in society and all across the minds of humanity. It showed what could
be a delightful environment for everyone if only humanity would have compassion towards
fellowmen, regardless of sex/ gender, and would think of everyone’s success.
The infomercial had vividly exhibited the issue of women being treated unfairly and
suffering from a double-workload. It displayed a wife who has a full-time job and still, who
does all of the chores and serves his husband and his son with the help of his little daughter.
The fact that a television show, the wife and her husband watched in the infomercial, also
portrayed a woman and her daughter doing the hard work of plowing the land instead of the
man, signifies that the idea of women being inferior and that they should be the ones doing
household chores is accepted in the society. The scene where the wife was made to work
overtime by her male boss and still paid with less money, just shows how easy it is for men to
act superior around women. It also showed that leisure time is something that men could
easily have and something that women could only dream of. Also, seeing that the wife’s son
is only sitting around with his father and waiting to be served, sadly tells that the new
generation is continued to be imprinted by the society with such unreasonable ideas.
Fighting for changing this unequal belief and view of men and women has been
difficult. With the wide acceptance of such beliefs, sadly it has been observed that some
women have adopted a passive attitude towards the idea, and just continued carrying the
heavy responsibility of the double-workload of a full-time job and being a housewife. Some
women have even learned and become submissive to their dominating husband, because of
what their environment dictates.
It takes a relationship or a marriage to bind a man and a woman, and consequently

create a household and make a woman a housewife; therefore, love and respect should be
present in a home. However, what is seen in households everywhere are more like
domination and submission, or injustice. Women or wives are expected to take the
responsibility of caring for the whole household, and thus, are pushed to do it despite the
truckload of chores, and at the expense of their leisure and rest time. These incidences show
nothing about love and respect inside a home, because if it does, men would lend their wives
a helping hand, men would respect their wives’ time to rest and relax; men would share the
responsibility of taking care of their household which they both built. For loving, it means
putting your loved ones first before yourself. So, if they entered their relationship through
love, then love should be the center of the home and respect towards each other should be
shown. The world would be in its best if the whole humanity aims for everyone’s success and
not just for theirselves.
Men and women feed from the same things and yearn for the same needs. Men and
women are both humans, both are blessed with bodies that have limbs and a brain. No
supernatural/ no one powerful enough have ever dictated and assigned what women and men
should do/ perform. These absurd beliefs stems from unjustifiable delusions that men
dominates the society because they are stronger, brighter, wiser etc. Many women possess
such attributes that some men could not even exceed. In the same page, numerous men, as
well, hold such characteristics that some women cannot reach. That reason is one of the many
reasons, why men and women are equal and should be treated as equal. Therefore, women
inside the household or not, must not be treated as servants, because if they are, that only
shows that men united with servants and not with someone they love and give affection with.
Such idea only makes men cheap and unreasonable, which they truly are not, and only proves
that they are not even worthy to dominate a society that should be enjoying equilibrium.
Alfred Adler believed that men and women share essentially the same psychic life and
that a society dominated by males is not natural but rather an artiﬁcial product of historical
development (Feist, J. & Feist, G., 2008). Like what Adler believed, men and women are
more or less the same; it is just the illusions of society which created such unfair
environment. Equity should never be an issue, however, the society lives by the opposite.
That is why; women and those men who share the same sentiment for equity should together
continue to uphold such balance and to engrave it into the world.
It takes a society to change the view of a society, so if everyone would welcome such
prosperous change of equity and would aim for everyone’s common good and success, the
world of women and all those who are made inferior would now be as agreeable to the world
of those who were once superior and who once dominated. Love and an open mind can lift
everyone to prosperity.
Republic of the Philippines
Leyte Normal University
Tacloban City, Leyte
The Impossible
Dream
Reflection
Submitted by:
Francis Lea P. Saludo
BSSW 1- 4
Submitted to:
Ms. Eva Jocson
Instructor

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