Art Imitates Life: Maja and Kim and Gerald in Between

It doesn’t make sense – two beautiful and talented women, fighting over a man. This is a storyline favorite among soap opera writers, it seems. It’s been written about over and over - and over again that it almost it feels like and sounds like a cliché. It’s a plot that demeans women and reduces them to mindless zombies that live in search of an able bodied man. (well – even if the man isn’t able bodied, women apparently still fight over him.)

Art truly imitates life and true to form, we now have two attractive women who are fighting over a man. The tabloids are now full of news that Kim Chiu and Maja Salvador are apparently not in good terms. Maja is in a relationship with Gerald who is Kim’s ex. Ugh. Kim is allegedly sore that Maja went into a relationship with him, even if they already parted ways and have stayed that way for over three years.It’s just in bad taste to talk, write or even think about. Kim is attractive – and can have any man she wants. Maja is the same, why fight over Gerald? Why destroy a friendship over one man when you can have so many others?

But I guess, I am providing a bad example here of two women fighting over a man. After all, Kim is the only one who feels cheated over a relationship that has long been over. Maja is not at fault, even if you say it is palabra de honor (word of honor) between two friends. I mean, should a man be out of bounds merely because he is a friend’s ex? I think yes, IF he cheated but if the relationship died a natural death, they should both be able to date whoever they want, including an ex’s friends.