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Your snap judgment about Janice-Gerald rumors says more about you

By Cai Subijanoon May 16, 2015
In 2011, Janice and Gerald worked together in primetime TV show Budoy when rumors surrounding their alleged romantic involvement first swirled. The rumors were reignited since Gerald and actress Maja Salvador’s recent breakup. Though all three parties have denied it, the public’s reaction to their supposed pairing was far more negative than Vic Sotto and Pauleen Luna’s real-life coupling.
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Chicks have it tough.

When rumors of a romance between celebs Janice de Belen, 46, and Gerald Anderson, 26, began circulating, the outcry wasn’t so much about Gerald’s abbreviated relationship with fellow actor Maja Salvador so much as it was, “WTF was he thinking?!”

It seemed inconceivable for Gerald, a conventionally attractive young male, to have swapped partners for the much-older Janice. Granted, all three parties have categorically denied the relationship. The issue isn’t so much about the rumored participants in this May-December romance but the polarizing backlash.

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How many people lifted an eyebrow when Vic Sotto started seeing Pauleen Luna, who happens to be 34 years his junior? Which, let’s be honest, is a creepy large age gap. That’s Woody Allen-Soon-Yi Previn levels of gap, right there. Instead of criticism lobbied against Vic’s three-decade-young-dip into the dating pool, the actor’s been called a stud for nabbing young girlfriends. Ahh, patriarchy.

If in some alternate universe, Pauleen was the December in that May-December relationship, what would that look like? Certainly not as easy peasy as Vic has it.

Older women dating young have to suffer ridiculous stereotypes: an object of pity, criticized harshly for being “desperate,” “pathetic,” and to put it in local terms, willing “na magpa-loko.”

So to put it in context: Guy with numerous conquests is a winner. In 2015, a woman with a, let’s call it “adventurous” Tinder habit, can still be called “loose.” A woman dating below her age group? Don’t get the Internet trolls started. There’s that good old double standard.

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Why are dudes getting hall passes for dating young, while ladies are getting read to filth out there? Whether or not Janice and Gerald are nurturing a passionate secret affair is irrelevant. People need to chill the eff out and cool it when it comes to judging women about their sex lives and dating habits.


Infographic by Mon Tan
Couple timelines by Janine Alcantara

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