The power is in your hands.
As strange as it sounds, why we can only fight with blood and tears for what other people are born with, and we fight only for the possibility of that future. But if there is no struggle, there will be no change. So it's not so much that people do it spontaneously, it's a necessity under all social systems. There will inevitably be people fighting, and more and more people will inevitably join in.
Reminds me of the mention in "Details of Democracy", "Rights are like water droplets, once infiltrated, they will start to spread along the plane". The pioneers of feminism sowed the world with the first drop of female awakening and equality, and until now, although historically it has undergone "earth-shaking" changes, it has permeated too slowly to be invisible (especially here in CN), far from enough.
Morality will strangle you.
"Morality" is such a heavy shackle for women. After thousands of years of constant admonitions, the "female virtue" was imprinted on women's genes and brains, alienating them, and unconsciously maintaining this system. From the stone-dipping pig cage in the past to the humiliation of cyber sluts today, there are endless patterns, but the core is just one: women, they should take care of themselves and be an "other" obediently.
As Beauvoir said, a woman is first her father's daughter, then her husband's wife, and then her child's mother, but not herself.
What the patriarchal society wants her to do is to take the father as the heaven, the husband as the heaven, and the son as the heaven.
In modern society, this sentence may have to add another, "the boss is the sky".
While more and more people are resisting, the course of history is our day-to-day life when we are in it. Everything slowed to a standstill.
I'm not a suffragette.
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You see, I'm a suffragette after all.
From talking about suffragette discoloration, to calmly accepting that you are one of them, what kind of transition does it take to go through? Being publicly humiliated, abandoned by her husband, forced to be separated from her children, beaten and scolded, watched her comrades die... the price is too high.
So it is not difficult to imagine why there are so many people claiming on the Internet that "I am also a woman, but I do not support women's rights" in today's China 100 years later. (regardless of whether the person behind the screen is a woman or a man)
The constant stigmatization, repression, mockery, and humiliation of women's rights activists is their consistent and always effective means.
Maud was released from prison after being detained for the first time, and the guild gave her a badge. They consider it an honor. But when she got home, she was considered a huge disgrace by everyone, and her husband thought she was a shame. Such contrasts are not uncommon in modern society.
But as Edith said in the film, they tried their best to suppress and ridicule because they were scared.
(Although the vast majority of Chinese and Chinese media have long since fallen, public opinion is unstoppable.)
(When will the mainland be no longer a brainless idol mother-in-law Gongdou drama.)
In the end, at least do your best not to let the wheel go back any further.
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