Kerima Polotan's "The Virgin" reflects how a woman communicates with the opposite sex. As a virgin who hasn't been in an intimate relationship with a man, Ms. Mijares puts up a distance with a carpenter.
In the story, you could see how the author describes the two: Ms. Mijares as slim and frail-looking while the carpenter as taut and strong. In short, there is a partial discrimination between the two. Patriarchal language is evident.
At the moment, gender discrimination isn't a strange thing. Male society always looks at women as weaklings, that they can't do laborious work or that they're intellectually insufficient. On one hand, men are well-respected, considered as the prime movers of the world and the pillars of women's existence.
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