inday!

Nag-rent ng isang van ang magbabarkada para mag out-of-town. Habang nasa biyahe biglang humirit si Ethan…

Ethan: Alam niyo ba, in the Animal Kingdom, males are more dominant than females?

Di papatalo si Rosing…

Rosing: Ok lang. Studies show that women outlive men.

May pantapat si Dodong…

Dodong: Eh diba nga, men have higher IQ than women?

Di na napigilan at nagsalita na rin si Inday…

Inday: And what is your proof Dodong? Such claims concerning gender differences are empirical and they should be evaluated by evidence. Is it because there are more male scientists or mathematicians than female ones? Do you think that this translates to men having greater cognitive aptitude for science? Or males are intrinsically better at mathematical and spatial reasoning? Or that men show greater variability than women, and as a result there are more men at the extreme upper end of the ability distribution from which scientists and mathematicians are drawn?

Inday: Tell me Dodong, what’s your evidence? Don’t you know that we are endowed with core knowledge systems that emerge prior to any formal instruction which serves as a basis for mathematical thinking and these systems equally develop in males and females? I tell you, there are no differences in intrinsic aptitude between men and women. You must consider social factors involved before stating your claim. There are social forces, including overt and covert discrimination and social influences that lead men and women to develop different skills and different priorities.

Natameme na si Dodong…

Dodong: (sinisi si Ethan) ‘Kaw kasi eh! ‘Kaw nag-pasimuno ‘lam mo namang wala tayong laban kay Inday.

Nagising si Manang sa kanyang pagkatulog…

Manang: Ang iingay niyo! ‘La pa akong tulog… palibhasa di kayo inumaga sa paghahanda ng pagkain eh!

Dodong, Ethan, Rosing at Inday: Sorry!