Is there such a rose

Ron 2021-12-11 08:01:34

["Gender Studies" publicly-selected homework, with a strange perspective and a slightly aggressive tone. Please forgive me for viewers. Don't have general knowledge of our ignorant women and children. 】


Hong Kong singer Xie Anqi has a song called "Zhuyingtai".

I thought it was a cliché repeating Liang Zhu's love story, but unexpectedly, the author Zhou Boxian wrote the lyrics ingeniously: "Why do you want to live a wonderful life, you have to remove the female body, self-covering and self-love? Yes?

Should we wait to see the future, women and men, equal competition?" In ancient China, men and women were very strict. Women should read the "Female Commandments" at most, learn one study, three obediences and four virtues. . The imperial examination has always been the world of men, and even if a woman touches the "Book of Songs", it seems to be the world's most unconventional.



In the United States in the 1950s, advertisements for blonde beauty and home appliances swept the screen.

To this day, the distinctive advertising paintings handed down at that time are still printed on postcards, and the sales are still considerable. I never thought before, why do women always have to be associated with the trivial home life? Rongma graceful belongs to men, and the titles on the gold list also belong to men. The man has become an indeterminate riverside bone, and the woman still wears makeup on the Cuilou-it seems that since ancient times, these pictures are supposed to be: men should spread their blood to fight the world, and women have to spend time in spring day after day. The boudoir consumes time.

Even in the liberal and democratic America, the declaration of the non-discrimination of blacks has been screaming loudly, but the status of women has still not received enough attention.

Betty, the most arrogant woman in the movie, sees who is not pleasing to the eye, and she is criticized by an editorial. Since she was a child, she has listened to her mother's teachings and learned a set of perfect art of pretending. She can be glamorous and beautiful, she can be mean and indifferent. She held her husband's arm, raised her chest, held a book and held a vacuum cleaner, just like a motherly world.

In the end, she chose to rent a house with a slutty girl that her mother had always looked down on. She chose a divorce that was imperfect to the people at the time. She told her impeccable mother: "You can't just look at the surface."

Yes, Mona Lisa is smiling, but who knows she is happy? As a noblewoman in the Middle Ages in Europe, she had to wear a mask of emotion and anger. A slight smile is just a matter of etiquette, maybe she just wet the pillow towel with tears the night before.

Or, she has been "happy", and even the true touch of tears has long forgotten what it feels like.



The heroine Katherine cannot but say that she is an extreme feminist, although I personally admire her, and I very much suspect that she is also a Leo like me.

The most difficult constellations in the world are the Leo woman and the Virgo man.

Katherine is quite similar to Mr. Keating, the male protagonist of "Death Poetry Society". Both are famous teachers who hope to lead students to think independently and choose their lives independently. The biggest difference between them is that Keating is not as aggressive as Katherine.

Keating reminds them "Seize the days" in the ears of the students, but Katherine is a woman, she will be disappointed, crying, emotional, and mad in class because of Betty's provocative editorial, saying to the students: I lost , You won!

In fact, the real role of education is not in the hard-pressed knowledge in the classroom, but in the subtle behavior and handling of things. So despite the very different personalities, Keating and Katherine both had the same ending: they left school, and then all the students, whether they were close to them or those who sneered at them, all came here sincerely and will always Remember this short but profound teaching.

Oh, Captain, my captain.



I remember that in the sophomore modern literature class, teacher Zhou Peiyao once said to us: "In the history of modern literature, almost all female writers live more freely and freely than Bingxin, but no one is happier than her. Because in China, you If you want to be happy, you must learn to compromise.”

In fact , it is more than just in China, even if the United States, England, which is known for its freedom, has the status of women surpassed that of men?

Yes, now women can be secretary of state and enter the White House. Britain has a supreme queen. But first abandoning social attributes, nature gives women far less favourable things than men.

Watanabe Junichi once said in his "Man This Thing": Only sexually mature women can feel the orgasm. The true sexual pleasure of a woman comes from combining with the beloved man, and the body of a man can only produce primitive and inferior. Pleasure, regardless of whether it is his beloved woman or not.

In addition, it is the woman who uses the deeper affection, the woman who breeds offspring, the woman who hurts, and the woman who hurts her. A woman will be rejected by a man because he has had a baby, and a man will never be looked down upon by anyone because he has produced a few embryos. Women are prone to suffer from gynecological diseases, and even die prematurely because of this, and men can go to prostitutes grandiosely, as long as they pay attention to hygiene, there is no need to worry about contracting any unexpected illnesses.

Not to mention the contemptuous virgin complex of East Asian men.

As a twenty-year-old virgin, I still despise the virgin complex of non-virgins. I feel terrified after listening to the personal experiences of my friends, and I don’t know what it will be like when I experience it. Will the idea of ​​the difference between men and women be different from now?

I only know that no matter whether I meet a worthy man in the future, I will never forget myself for one reason or another.



Finally, back to the question of compromise.

The movie heroine Katherine is a bit too aggressive. I think it is not unforgivable for Jone to give up going to Yale Law School and choose love and family. It is true that for a person with dreams, this is indeed a bit discouraging, but if dreams and family are like red roses and white roses, like a high priest in the mountains and the lonely forest of a fairy and a world outside the world, it will naturally be difficult for a person with gains or losses. Ping, but knowing which party you need more, isn’t it more valuable than anything?

Not everyone can live according to your wishes, and their choices may not be bright enough, but it can't be called a fallacy.

Just as I very much despise those who squeeze their heads to test civil servants, these are more or less a compromise of reality, and they are all weak people who have chosen to go with the tide in the turbulent waves of life. But contempt is contempt, I can't blame them, let alone try to influence their lives.

Some people choose to be extraordinary protagonists, and some are born just as supporting characters. Some people can take a lonely road in a wonderful and colorful way, and some people can't cover up the mediocrity and loneliness in their hearts even if their relatives and friends are full.

Of course, my words are still too harsh. I can only say that I very much agree with Katherine’s ideas and practices. At the same time, I also hope that those who choose to compromise can find stability in the world-but such stability is not me after all. Appreciated.



The female writer Yi Shu is now living the life she dreams of-a big house, afternoon tea, writing a few articles in idle time, and listening to the sound of the wind when she calms down. Many people sighed after reading her interview. The only drawback is that the people who accompany her are not the people that everyone thought of.

In contrast, her nephew, Zhou Huimin, is completely different. The young lady who stunned Hong Kong had been in love with romantic talents for many years. She could not resist the pressure of wet kisses and public opinion and announced her breakup. But within a few days, there was another marriage news. The woman also said: "He committed the crime. This kind of mistake.”

Zhou Yu Nv can proudly apply TVB’s classic lines: “Happiness does not care about what others think. The most important thing to be a person is to be happy.” But in the eyes of our viewers, the happiness she chose is undoubtedly Compromise companion. The so-called happy marriage based on grievances is like a Baochai covered in dust. Does it really have its own taste?

This immortal lady is still beautiful and impeccably beautiful, presumably she smiles, and she will not be inferior to Mona Lisa.

So, why do men’s career success and celibacy are the diamond celebrities who are eager for? Women who succeed in their careers but are single, are they all inadequate?

Why do you have to learn to compromise if you want to be happy?

If possible, at the end of the story, I would like to ride in a car that never looks back like Katherine, waved to yesterday, and resolutely rushed to romantic Europe to find the art in my heart.

If possible, I would like to be such a proud thorny rose, never making compromised confetti.

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Mona Lisa Smile quotes

  • [referring to a childlike drawing of a cow]

    Katherine Watson: 25 years ago, someone thought this was brilliant.

    Connie Baker: I can see that.

    Betty Warren: Who?

    Katherine Watson: My mother. I painted it for her birthday. Next slide. This is my mom. Is it art?

    Susan Delacorte: It's a snapshot.

    Katherine Watson: If I told you Ansel Adams had taken it, would that make a difference?

    Betty Warren: Art isn't art until someone says it is.

    Katherine Watson: It's art!

    Betty Warren: The right people.

    Katherine Watson: And who are they?

    Giselle Levy: Betty Warren! We're so lucky we have one of them right here.

  • Connie Baker: [reading from an advertisement] "When your courses are set and a dreamboat you've met, have a real cigarette! Have a Camel!" I've got my courses, I've got my Camel cigarette. Where the hell is my dreamboat?