I often see a term lately: pastoral feminism. Feminism is a political movement used to push for the elimination of gender inequality. And pastoral feminism is a hat that you put on as if you were a hysterical selfish paranoid. For example, if you can decide whether or not to have children, they say you are a feminist; if you decide not only whether to have children, but if you decide to have children, they have to have your last name, then they say you are a bastard. feminist.
I often see a term lately: pastoral feminism. Feminism is a political movement used to push for the elimination of gender inequality. And pastoral feminism is a hat that you put on as if you were a hysterical selfish paranoid. For example, if you can decide whether or not to have children, they say you are a feminist; if you decide not only whether to have children, but if you decide to have children, they have to have your last name, then they say you are a bastard. feminist.
Later, the patriarchs thought the hat was too useful. As long as women speak up, put them on for you immediately, trying to get all women to stop talking. It's a bit funny, I can't speak, and I'm afraid of being occupied by women who can speak, so I can only rely on gender advantage to grab a straw to save my life. Of course, this kind of chicken thief male is a small part. Most men, like most women, pursue equality in human rights, equality in education, work, and politics. Of course, in the current society, this kind of pursuit should be civic, but somehow it seems that only feminism is speaking out. Politics cannot be discussed. In China, equality in education has basically been achieved. Of course, this is closely related to the family planning that we began to implement in the 1980s. A large number of only daughters have created a large number of post-80s women who have received equal education. When these people came to the workplace, they clearly felt the influence of gender. workplace inequality. For example, it is required to not become pregnant for two years after entering the job, and for example, being sexually harassed in the workplace will never have a voice. Women in China are required to obey, and the slightest resistance is called pastoral feminism. And the so-called big heroine dramas that are full of screens must also have a boss who can save the heroine from fire and water, which makes people have to wonder, what kind of soil nourishes such a group of screenwriters? Many years ago, HBO released a Sex and the City, about a group of independent single women, world-famous. In the winter of 2019, HBO released another "The Moring Show", about a group of women who have suffered in the workplace, and won the 2020 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Series Nomination.
Rachel in Friends and Ellie in Legally Blonde, the new and old American sweethearts, played the roles of two female journalists, one high and the other low. The two never knew from the beginning that they worked together in the end. A patriarchal group that dominates the workplace.
Contemporary China will never be able to interpret the provocation of patriarchy in such a dramatic and realistic manner.
"Morning News" male anchor Mitch was exposed to a sex scandal. In order to keep his precarious position, Alex, the female anchor who worked with him, supported the unemployed and thorny female reporter Bradley to replace Mitch's seat. And made a deafening cry to the silent majority of women.
When faced with unfair oppression, speak up.
Bradley on the left and Alex on the right.
In the ten episodes of the show, Alex was a working woman with a failed marriage from the beginning. Back then, she took the seat of the female anchor with the affinity of the girl next door and became a female embellishment in the patriarchal society. She was silent for ten episodes and broke out in the final six minutes.
Jennifer Aniston won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her wonderful performance in this play. She deserves it. From America's Sweetheart to now, at 51 years old, she will have a failed marriage and her anchor career is about to fall into a slump and fight back. Successful women in the workplace perform very well.
Alex and Bradley represent two types of successful women in the contemporary workplace. Alex is the kind of successful female representative who is sweet in appearance and is obedient and has candy, and Bradley is the kind of successful female representative who has the ability and attitude, and belongs to the high-ranking female representative of strength. There is also a class of people in the film who are the actual victims of gender inequality in the workplace. There are female reporters who died of drug abuse by unspoken rules, female assistants who had to face all kinds of censorship when they were dating in the workplace, and they were promoted successfully. But it has to be questioned that it is a female producer who relies on unspoken rules.
The excellence of the screenwriter is that, through the differentiated performance of people from different positions in a specific sexual harassment complaint incident, it not only shows the bad experience of disadvantaged groups in women in the workplace, but also shows the dilemma that successful women in the workplace have to face.
After watching the first episode, some people will wonder if the negative impact of the METOO activity caused the male anchor to be framed. People took advantage of the power of feminist activities to define the normal behavior of some male and female colleagues as sexual harassment. . After watching the eighth episode, you will never have such doubts again.
The eighth episode is a memory, a birthday party for the male anchor Mitch, with flowers and everyone around him. Alex helped him organize the entire birthday party like a hostess as a partner. Eventually, Mitch has a one-night stand with a new female employee, Hannah.
In the first episode, Mitch defended himself by saying, "I never forced them, they were all willing." For Hannah, of course, he didn't feel forced.
The truth was that Hannah couldn't refuse that night. The charismatic boss suddenly expresses his affection for her, asks her to go home to watch a movie for dinner, and further sexual behavior seems logical. She didn't know when it was right to push him away. But the next day she saw his attitude and realized what happened yesterday. She ran to the boss's office in a rage to complain, and the boss replied: "You don't need to say it, I understand." Then she asked her to shut up. , gave her a promotion opportunity.
See what's wrong with this thing? It is wrong for Hannah to accept a promotion or not, because if she accepts it, she will become what they call "a woman who is superior by unspoken rules", and if she refuses, she will become the "feeling to be played" in their mouth. A woman who wants to bite back."
In episode 10, Hannah finally dies of drug abuse in self-torture, which stimulates Alex.
The success of the role of Alex is that at first everyone thought she was a sloppy beauty, relying on Mitch to fry the national broadcaster couple and survived in the morning news, and then she showed a career in the tug-of-war with the TV station. Some literacy. The best part is that Alex shows the weakness of a young lady and the tenacity of a mature woman throughout the whole process, and the character is full of flesh.
She knew that she was a woman who was held in high position in this patriarchal group, serving patriarchy. After the male anchor's sexual harassment broke out, she certainly knew what the future would hold. So she chose to promote Bradley, so that the morning news no longer needs a man's face.
Everything could have calmed down like this, but Mitch is still looking for a chance to reverse the verdict. He goes to Hannah and asks Hannah to testify for him that she had a one-night stand with him for a promotion.
HOW DARE HIM?
So Hannah died, from a drug overdose, after taking jobs in other cities.
Regardless of whether the cause of death was real or not, she did, after being coerced by Mitch to testify against him.
The last point of Alex's explosion was maybe because she was betrayed by male power and had been defending her friends, maybe because Bradley couldn't stand this suffocating environment and wanted to leave, maybe because she was such an emotional person.
She's weak and strong, and at the moment she hears of Hannah's death, she decides to be a hero.
So we have a last minute shoutout.
Thanks to HBO for bringing us such wonderful women's dramas in the workplace, and I hope that domestic workplace dramas can break away from the category of idol dramas as soon as possible.
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