By Aliron Llamedo, Cebu City
Sometimes I am glad that I live in the Philippines, a developing third world country.
I don’t know if that is the politically correct thing to say. Fortunately our society, for the most part, doesn’t care about semantics.
In countries like the Philippines there are so many pressing matters that need to be addressed that some of the things that the West cares about come off as frivolous or trivial.
Take, for example, the idea that there are more than two genders.
As far as I know, there is only the male and the female. The man and the woman. But the number varies depending on where you are in the West and depending on who you read.
According to medicalnewstoday.com, there are more than 10 genders. Here’s their list: agender, androgyne, bigender, butch, cisgender, gender expansive, gender fluid, gender outlaw, genderqueer, masculine of center, nonbinary, omnigender, polygender and pangender, transgender, trans, two spirit,
It leaves you thinking that the people in those countries must be so bored with their lives that they have to complicate it just so they could feel alive.
Imagine if they come here and try to impose the same nonsense on us.
It’s what the US government is doing in some countries in Africa, which have strict laws against homosexuality. The US has threatened them with sanctions if they don’t adopt its liberal views on sexuality.
There was that time when then US president Barack Obama brought up the subject in front of the president of Ghana, who, without batting an eyelash, calmly told Obama that his country had better things to do like feed its people and create jobs for the millions of unemployed.
It’s the same here in the Philippines.