When you want to give up, think about what these great women have done for you

Ashtyn 2022-01-11 08:01:57

I don’t know if it’s because of the gender of women. I was very resistant to this film at first, from the style of the poster to the title, "Female Participants"? Isn't it telling the story of a group of neighborhood committee aunts? And I am not a feminist myself. As a girl, I don't feel the deep malice in this world. Those sexual harassment, those different pay for equal work are far away from me, so far away I can't feel the existence of this kind of thing, or I just choose to ignore it. However, I still watched the ghosts. I cleaned up the room carefully, drew the curtains tightly, turned off all the lights, washed the grapes, took out the dried mango, applied a mask, and arranged my husband in the audio-visual room downstairs to put the children to sleep. , Turned off the phone, locked the doors and windows, and then opened the movie like a pilgrimage.

Women are very fragile and sensitive creatures. They don't have strong biceps, broad shoulders and strong thighs, and even their height has no advantage. They are very weak in strength. Just look at the barbells in the strength zone in the gym, all strong men are pushing. But just such a fragile, tiny creature can produce huge amounts of energy. This burst of energy is awe-inspiring.

I remembered the experience of a girl being sexually harassed in the office shared by my neighbors a while ago. When she was touched on her ass, she slapped her back and slapped her back without mercy. There was no hypocrisy and so-called emotional intelligence among colleagues, so he slapped back. I really want to applaud, really want to applaud. Regardless of whether this treatment is appropriate in the company's culture, this is considered to be very brave and great behavior.

I remembered that when I first started, I was a little cautious as a newcomer. An old employee often went on to instruct me to get close in my name, so close that it made people uncomfortable. At that time, as a newcomer, I didn't speak out, just stay away from the employee as much as possible. Later, I was promoted, and the old employee never came within 2 meters of me.

In the workplace, there are always trade-offs. Calculating the scale in turning his face and patience. Measure with one's own identity and position, the identity and position of the other party, and the impression in the leadership, etc., to see how much the winning rate of turning a face can reach. Yes, this is the problem that girls face in the workplace today. This problem existed 100 years ago. A slap and a burning soldering iron broke this trade-off and smashed this calculation. When the soldering iron fell, I really felt a bad breath from my heart. This is really a breath for countless modern women who are aggrieved.

In fact, I have no feeling for the contempt and resistance of men. What I am sad about is that the heroine was attacked by women while fighting for women's rights. But I also understand this state. It is not women who attacked her, but the majority. She was actually attacked as a minority. The people who attacked her did not realize that they were women, nor did they fail to realize that the heroine was fighting for women's rights, but most people's thinking occupied "their" hearts.

"They" are in every place, in the company's HR department, among people who dare to speak out when they are sexually harassed, in families who have been persecuted by domestic violence, and in any corner of the world. There is always a small group of "comrades" who laugh at you when you resist, despise you, and even hurt you more than men. In many village committee women’s federations in the villages, there are some aunts who persuade you who are victims of domestic violence to be patient for the sake of your children; in many company guilds or the workplace complaint centers of the personnel department, there are always some cold-blooded bone spirits facing sexual harassment. Don’t irritate company leaders, don’t find things for yourself; in many companies, there are always female white-collar workers who are habitually harassed and look at you as a newcomer being harassed by your boss, and they scold you for skirts too short or V-neck too low after dinner. . But this is nothing. All you have to do is to prove with your strength that you are not that good at bullying. If you are brave enough, just slap it over. If you have scruples, then work hard to become better, as good as the company is not. People dare to ignore you, dare to wrong you.

Recently, my leader asked me to talk and wanted to call someone from my team to do the work of secretarial work. He asked my opinion and gave me some suggestions. All of them were girls. I refused:

"Although XX is a girl, it does not mean that XX is not suitable for the job of an account manager. In addition, the choice is all girls, why not find a boy? Are girls not good at communicating with customers? Girls are not good at talking Girls are not suitable for sales? Take a look at our company. Excellent account managers are all girls. They don't rely on socializing or drinking, and they still win several million large orders from the company. Why do girls do secretarial work? In this way, you directly ask XX himself, and then decide."

Without any suspense, XX chose to stay on the team as an account manager. The seemingly comfortable and stress-free work in the office did not attract her. So where do these prejudices come from?

The girls in the film are all doing laundry, secretarial, and assistant jobs, so who dictates what jobs the girls should be good at? The pharmacist couple inside, the male did not have a chemist diploma, but the girl did, and the girl’s dream career was a doctor. Her dream was ruined in that cruel society, but now this society gives girls a chance.

In this society, girls may still inevitably have a harder time getting results than boys, but this does not prevent you from becoming better, achieving better results, fulfilling your dreams, and becoming who you are. Although the mother in "Silent Confession" failed in the end, she still ran away from home for so long to try to get closer to her dreams for exams.

In the two years when I had just given birth, I was really in hell. I was all children, without myself. I gave up on myself countless times, but I still felt that I couldn’t bury myself at the age of 26 and crawled out of hell step by step. come out. I founded this classroom to help others climb up from their own hell. Having children not only exposes women to the death of their lives, but also the death of their souls. The feeling of giving up on myself and giving up dreams really wants me to grab your shoulders and shake, wake up, wake up quickly, exhaustion is only temporary, busyness is only temporary, even depression is only temporary, it will be good, as long as You will survive without giving up!

The best part of this movie is that when you want to give up yourself, think about what these women have paid for the foundation of everything you have now. You have no reason to be decadent, no reason to give up.

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This article is really an explosion of great power in the body. There is not so much objective and calm analysis. There are not so many quotations, no full PO data, the whole article is what I want to say to the girls who are working hard in the workplace now. Before watching this movie, I already had an idea and wanted to set up a club to work hard. Girls, support each other and move forward together. After reading it, I felt that we should let the girls know that they are not the only ones struggling and persevering.

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Suffragette quotes

  • Emmeline Pankhurst: We do not want to be law breakers. We want to be law makers.

  • Inspector Arthur Steed: The fear is, they won't break, Sir. If one of them dies, we'll have blood on our hands and they'll have their martyr.

    Benedict Haughton: That must not happen, or Mrs Pankhurst will have won.