Ah Valentines Day, a day where lovers buy roses to love ones, a day where people wear red clothes to heighten the ambiance. Every February 14, restaurants are filled with dating lovers and love stories fill the cinemas. Love songs fill the airwaves in every radio stations you hear as you pass houses going to the market. Lodges are filled to the max by lovers doing their “thing”. Ah this day….really sucks!

You know as I grow tired of this day. I sometimes wonder…why are modern day Filipina becoming soooooo cheap. Yep you heard it right folks…CHEAP! Why? You don’t know why? I’ll tell you why.

If compared long ago, I really appreciate those “babe worshipped” songs in the 80’s. Songs like “Sinasamba Kita” (I Worship You) by Rey Vallera, “Be My Lady” by Martin Nievera, “Kamusta Ka” (How Are You) by Nonoy Zuñiga and a lot of songs composed by Mr. Jose Mari Chan talks about how beautiful a woman can be. Here are songs that place a woman on the pedestal. These songs give credit to a woman’s mystery and seductiveness. They show how a lover adores his beloved, like a real treasure. Let’s talk about movies. In the time of the Sampaguita pictures and LVN, We find Filipina women being courted by their suitors. In those times “pinaghihirapan ng lalaki ang panliligaw sa babae.” Films like Takipsilim, Igorota, and Sa Lumang Simbahan shows love themes where women are not insatiable fish pickers.

Alas! Gone are those great days.

Look at the going thread. This so-called modern lifestyle is not really beneficial. I’m not saying that every modern life style is bad nor am I saying that being a liberated Filipina is cheap. But there is a big difference between being liberated and being down right cheap. Liberated means an independent woman. A woman who can have her own flat, she can raise her status on a male dominated world, and she doesn’t need men to tell her what to do. Now that is being liberated. Now what is down right cheap?

Now a days, those love songs that I said earlier where being re-issued. The difference is that today girls with squeaky voices sing those songs. Now you may say that there is nothing wrong with that. Really? Just try to listen to those songs in their cheap versions. If a girl sings the song it’s like that she is pleading for a guy’s love. OH NO!!!!!!! How desperate can she be? Why is there no other guy interested on her that she has to kneel down and embrace the guy’s legs? Now we hear song that makes a woman sound too anxious on a guy’s affection.

Aside for those songs, there are songs composed to sound like girls admiring a dork. Example, the song Close to You by the Carpenters. Here is a girl singing praises to a guy who she compares to something which angels go down to, like a god. Now I know why Karen starves herself to death. Here in the Philippines…well the only think I can do is to puke.

Now even in movies, WHAAAAAA!!!! The worst. We see girls fighting over a dope. This is very prevalent in Asian telenovelas. So ano yung pinag-aagawan nila? Those “swangays” na mga mukhang kutuhin like those long-haired effeminate Chinese they called F4? Example here in this trash of a TV show called “Meteor Garden”. The girl rented a large sign board to place a sign telling her feelings for the leading creep. Now, why can’t the guy do that for the girl in the first place? Maybe they are too in love with themselves to notice the girl. On the other hand, there are movies, especially western movies, were the leading men, take their desirability because they are great business men, scholarly professors, inventors and the likes that had little time for their wives and female lovers. From these movies, scenes that show these very busy and exceptional men submerged in pressing things like, business growth or radical mathematical equations. Then here comes his better half , girl friend or female lover who does nothing but embrace him from behind and try to entice him to go to bed with her as if that’s the only good thing she could do! What kind of movies are these, showing girls only good for sex, but the male character are exceptional leaders of society? Is this what some women justify as being “liberated”?

Because of these media hype, the Filipina are losing her “magic touch” and are now being replaced by trashy girls who hang around in malls, internet cafes, and sleazy movie theaters. Today, just to be noticed, modern day Filipinas tend to be noisy, talkative with their squeaky voice, rivaling the screaming faggots, to flirt around their crushes. NGIIIEEE!!!

Just thinking of it, makes me puke!

Today, men collect girls, cheaper by the dozen. Gone are the days of women where being courted and respected. Now you can pull them by the hair to the nearest motel, use them and discard them like candy wrappers. Another lust satisfied, and then calls it a day. I had friends, showing off how many women did they conquered. I don’t find it amusing.

I’ve heard news, about the famous dolls Barbie and Ken; after a long separation, Ken is trying to win Barbie back. Mabuti pa yung mga manikang iyan. At least here we see a man, trying to win back a woman’s heart. But here in the Philippines, women are just being collected like lifeless dolls. And as I notice, Filipina women seem to agree with the situation. Oh MY PAPAYA!!! Have they gone insane? Have they loosed their sense of pride and self respect?!?

I still believe that somewhere in the nooks and crannies of this decadent Philippine society, a woman with pride and dignity just like the old days, still exist. I just hope that whoever she is, dumami pa sana ang katulad niya…

…At twing umuulan ay kapiling ka….

Pinoy Atheist