The 144-minute Indian film seems a bit lengthy, and the facts reflected may surprise the world. Almost 18 years have passed since the 21st century. Our neighbors also have thousands of years of civilization. There are no toilets in ordinary families in India, a country with a large population. Or, for religious reasons, there are no toilets for women at home. Men can take off their trousers to stand and urinate anywhere, the sewage is stinking, and women can only go to the wild in groups in the middle of the night. What to do during the day, what to do with diarrhea? Hold on! What to do with the dirty water of these excrement, of course, it flows continuously to the river. I remember reading the reports about the Ganges River in India before. The picture can be described as unsightly. The dead bodies of people and animals are floating in the river, flies and maggots are circling and buzzing on it, and some people on the bank use the river water to bathe and wash their clothes, because they think the river is sacred and clean, and they feel sick just thinking about it. Not only that, women who go to the toilet in the wild at night are not only prone to being bitten by snakes and insects, but also are often sexually assaulted by criminals, which not only causes health problems. The husband wanted to build a toilet in his yard for his newly married wife, but he was strongly opposed by his father and relatives and friends. He also asked a group of religious leaders to discuss and discuss. People's most basic eating, drinking, lasha, sleeping, and traditional culture are related to it, it should not be, and it is unreasonable. For a toilet, the conflict between the two husband and wife became irreconcilable, and they were arguing for a divorce. Among the people who support not building toilets and protecting traditional culture, there are still women, and they are the loudest part. On the newspapers, on the TV, the uproar caused a national sensation. This is not a fantasy that the screenwriter came up with, but an adaptation of a real event that happened in India. Hu Shi said: "When you look at a country's civilization, you only need to examine three things: first, how they treat children; second, how they treat women; third, how they use their leisure time." The tangle of whether or not to build a toilet really contains not only the rotten and heavy religious shackles, but also the awakening of women's rights. Toilet culture also reflects the level of civilization and development of a country and a nation. I am glad that I live in a secular country. I don’t have to repent and do gastric lavage to see if there is anything in the food that I shouldn’t eat. I don’t have to worry about which hand to stretch out to touch things every day. Tolerance of public opinion. Have the courage to speak up, allow accountability, and discuss widely. That's the first step toward civilization, isn't it?
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