"Right now, all this may seem a little unusual to you, but after a while, you will become accustomed to it, and it will be more common."
No one would have thought that the American sci-fi drama "The Handmaid's Tale" is not at all sci-fi, and is full of strong realistic meanings. It is more like a reasonable assumption for the future. If we do not correct the current situation , the trajectory of history really evolves as in the play.
This is the real horror and annihilation for all women.
In "The Handmaid's Tale", women have completely lost their independence and control over their lives, and have no dignity or human rights at all, and become subordinate in a world dominated by men. Fertile women are assigned to rulers whose task and mission is to give birth to their next generation.
Unable to escape, to be monitored, they became personal property, not personal.
Everything started by boiling a frog in warm water. When we don’t speak out against the injustice of others, it is actually equivalent to handing our own weapons to the perpetrator. The person in front of us falls, and even if we stand at the back, we will always be wounded by his sharp blade. Powerless.
Some people say that surrogacy is just because some people are willing to beat others, and there is no need to make a fuss. This is normal. They have their own bodies, and they can do whatever they want. Why should they be so severely punished and condemned? We should have the freedom to choose surrogacy.
Even actress Xu Jinglei once publicly talked about surrogacy in an interview. She said, "It's normal. Many people around me are like this. There are many, many, not a few."
But what are the consequences of this complete freedom?
Law scholar Luo Xiang said, "Don't think that your body belongs to you. If your body really belongs to you, it will definitely lead to the exploitation and bullying of the weak by the strong. This is why our ethics believe that a person It is the inability to dispose of one's most important interests, because freedom cannot be completely abandoned at the cost of freedom."
Once this freedom is released, it will push all vulnerable women into an abyss that cannot be resisted. We cannot speculate on the extent of evil in human nature, we can only stop evil from its source.
Just like the heroine and countless women in the play are forced to become "walking wombs", helpless "reproductive machines", in reality, right now, there are already many women who have become surrogate mothers or sold their eggs to harm The body even pays its life for blood-stained money.
We don't know how much of this part of the reward is actually spent on themselves, but the trauma of their bodies and minds is deeply imprinted on them, and this kind of pain makes every woman horrified and feel the same.
In the current environment of pursuing equality of gender rights, it is like cold wind pouring into the lungs, and every mouthful is a bitter pain, but even in such pain, we should be more alert, guarding and helping each other.
When we see traces of lipstick smeared in the "egg donation" advertisements that appear on the hidden walls of hospitals, school bathrooms, etc., we can always feel the solidarity between women. Each of us can't resist the pressure of strength, but when we gather together, we will always break out of the turbulent torrent and rush to the world.
Don't let today's silence become tomorrow's tears of regret, hold up a bunch of candles, it can also illuminate the world.
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