Domestic violence may no longer be synonymous to wife battery.
That is as far as every common man's level of social awareness is concerned.
Clear proof of this is my having difficulty of getting ample material - in the form of related literature - from very reliable search engines issues that have something to do with incidences of domestic violence with husbands as the victims.
The reason being is yet to be found somewhere out there.
It would be safe to assume that there are no articles relating to such because no man would dare speak of his lack of domestic control over his wife.
We have sung the tune appraising the entire kindred of "womendom": to their selfless contribution to preserving the family, to their unsung martyrdom under certain circumstances involving domestic violence, to their unwavering inclination to uphold the children and many more.
Whether the status quo remains to be seen as a new breed of idealists born into a culture of feminism depends on how society will accept that feminism is not entirely ideal and sound.
Men are considered insensitive if they did not know how to change diapers or to cook.
Men are considered to be self-centered, egotistic and power-hungry when they assert themselves at work.
Over the years, the same tune which upholds women's rights have begun tarnishing men's in the process.
See for yourself...
Try typing in the key words "husband battery" and topics begin appearing in the screen of the computer.
There is a growing number of cases where it is not the wife who is the victim but the husband.
And while it there virtue hidden in the idea that "ladies" should always come "first", it would also be virtuous for women to recognize the idea of "equality between sexes".
In the same way that that a paradigm shift is already being experienced on one part of the world where African-Americans are no longer considered to be second-class citizens but as equals or sometimes even more because a large population of African-Americans have started dominating one of the most influential sectors in the American society - Hollywood.
That, to me, is a good sign.
It is a sign of social progress - with what we could safely call a true civilized society of men living in a culture of complete racial acceptance and tolerance of differences.
It would be unfair however to make sweeping generalizations based on personal accounts and a few sob stories from the net.
Truth be told, feminism had started out to be promising until people began using it to their advantage.
If I were to use the idealism of "gender equality", I would use the idea in every possible way I can to prove my point.
So if a nice-looking lady comes in on a fully-loaded bus and finds herself standing in front of me, even if my natural reaction would be to offer my seat, I would have second thoughts, and, ultimately end up not offering my seat after all.
And this all because of "gender equality" which the feminist advocates so fervently move heaven and earth to uphold.
Gabriela - from the legendary personage of Gabriela Silang, one of the first revolutionary Filipino woman to fight the Spanish colonists; the modern symbol of the feminist Filipino woman.