ANALYSIS OF THE APPLICABILITY OF

SECTION 4 OF REPUBLIC ACT 11313 TO

‘SEXIST JOKES ’
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

• Street harassment consists of unwanted comments, whirling-whistles,

catcalling, and other actions by strangers in public areas that can be
unnerving and discomforting for everyone especially to the women and
LGBT community.

• One of the viral issues that are spreading in the country today is the
utterances “Sexist jokes”.

• Sexist jokes is disguise as merely an amusement or “just a joke” and it

gives potential offenderes to cultivate distress and harassment for women
and to facilitate tolerance of sexism and discriminatory behaviour among
 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
• 1.Should sexist ‘jokes’ be considered related as to those enumerated in
Section 4 of Republic Act 11313

• a. What constitutes ‘Sexist jokes’ if it shall be deemed included in the

enumeration of Section 4 of the Ra 11313.

• b. Who are considered offenders for the utterance of ‘sexist jokes’

• c. What would be the penalty imposed for the offense of ‘sexist jokes’
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

1. To determine the extent if sexist ‘jokes’ are to be considered as related to

those enumerated in Section 4 or Republic Act 11313 and should be
penalized in accordance with the law.

2. To determine who are the offenders for the utterance of ‘sexist jokes.’

3. What should be penalty impose to if “sexist jokes” is to be included in the

enumeration in Section 4 or Republic Act 11313.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

• For the women

• For the LGBT community
• For the Advocates of Women’s Rights
• For the Government Authorities
• For the students and the academic community
• The future researcher
SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE
STUDY
• This study aims to determine if sexist ‘jokes’ should be considered as like
those enumerated in Section 4 of RA 11313 or the Safe Spaces Act and if
not, did the legislature intended to exclude such act in the enumeration.

• To determine the need to add the phrase “sexist jokes” if it was not
included in the enumeration and to urge the legislators to adopt such
phrase since it also degrades the dignity of a person as well as their Rights
which the law seeks to protect especially for the women and the LGBT
community.
METHODS AND PROCEDURE

• The researcher decided to use the descriptive research design since the
field of study is the Analysis of the Applicability of Section 4 of Republic Act
11313.

• Qualitative is “more explorative, type of research that is dependent on the

collection of verbal’, behavioral or observational data that can be
interpreted in a subject manner.”
FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Should sexist ‘jokes’ be considered related as to those enumerated in Section 4 of

Republic Act 11313 and should be penalized under the law.

• Sexist jokes should be added in the enumeration under Section 4 of Republic Act 11313 since the

Act itself protects everyone against sexual harassment that is rapidly happening nowadays in public

and private places. “Sexist jokes” is a form of sexual harassment that can happen between peers or

between strangers, which the law prohibits. Research found that hearing sexist jokes had adverse

emotional effects on women. Specifically, women reported feeling more disgusted, angry, and

surprised in response to sexist jokes than to non-sexist jokes.

• 1.1 What constitutes ‘Sexist jokes’ if it shall be deemed included in the enumeration in

Section 4 of Ra 11313.

Sexist jokes are popular, and it is disguising as merely an amusement for everyone or “just a joke”

and it gives potential perpetrators to cultivate distress and harassment for women and to facilitate

tolerance of sexism and discriminatory behavior among men.

Sexist jokes demean, insults, stereotypes, victimizes and or objectifies a person based on gender. The

popularity of sexist jokes is always seen in mass media reports, workplaces and even informal social

interactions of strangers in the streets. Sexist jokes potentially can create distressing, hostile work

environments for women. It affect the ways that men think about women and perceive discrimination

against them as well as their willingness to engage in subtle sexist behavior

 2. Who are considered offenders for the utterance of ‘sexist jokes’

• If “Sexist jokes” are to be added in the enumerated in Section 4 of Republic

Act 11313, the offenders or the perpetrators should also penalize everyone

especially in the streets in terms of informal social interactions and not only

those direct social interactions.

• Everyone can be an offender whether it is between an employer and

employee especially between a Stranger and to another in public and private

places which is why there is a need to add Sexist jokes as, since it protects an

individual from harassment, the perpetrators shall be as of also like the

enumerated in the said law.

• 2.3What would be the penalty imposed for the offene of ‘sexist jokes’

If “sexist jokes” are to be included, it must impose a fine equal to those

enumerated who utters words or makes gestures that threaten another person's

sense of personal safety. They must face a fine of up to P10,000 and

imprisonment of up to one month for first warning and higher penalty and

imprisonment for repeated acts since the act and utterances of Sexist jokes

makes a person feel unwanted and uncomfortable of themselves in relation to

the first offense under the same law which are unwanted comments, whirling-

whistles, catcalling, transphobic statements, homophobic and use of sexual

names. .
RECOMMENDATION

1. To add “Sexist jokes” as one enumerated in Section 4 Republic Act 11313

2. Authorities shall strictly enforce Republic Act 11313 to public and private places to

prevent sexual harassment among peers and strangers.

4. To conduct seminars and orientation for the people to know that Republic Act

11313 exists and what its scope and limitations provide.

5. Local government units shall conduct a survey among the people to know if there

is an improvement among the sexual harassment cases.