"Why do women only accept half-life glitz and cannot occupy a place in the destiny of mankind?"
This is one of my favorite lines from Mrs. America.
Mrs. America is a biographical drama about the movement against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States in the 1970s. The movement was led by a "housewife" in the American North. She almost single-handedly overthrew the ERA that the feminist pioneers thought was a sure thing, and changed the political map of the United States in the future. To this day, the United States has not recognized gender equality in the constitution.
People who can come up with such earth-shattering events are definitely not ordinary people, and there are no inspirational stories of grassroots counterattacks. Our protagonist, Ms. Phyllis Schlafly, started out as a rich lady who didn't need to touch the sun with her fingers. She made food for her husband and children to express her love.
She has little work experience, but she can sit in a senator's office and share her views on nuclear weapons, and her views can even be passed through the senator to higher-level decision-making bodies. Although her space seems limited to her family's six or seven-bedroom mansion, in fact her heart has long been camped in the capital, Washington.
A woman who earned her master's degree in 9 months and enrolled at the University of Washington Law School in her 50s has political ambitions to strengthen national defense and improve military capabilities against the Soviet Union, and most of all wants to have a relationship with foreign policy and nuclear strategy. How can you set your life to be a Barbie doll for the rich?
She wanted to be successful in politics, and she never hid her ambitions. The key is how to go. Anti-feminism is indeed a shortcut.
The feminist movement is vigorous, and in order to demonstrate independence, some groups must be suppressed. Although we now emphasize that women can choose their own careers, there is no distinction between high and low occupations. But at a time when feminism was just emerging, radical slogans and distinctive features were indispensable. In the feminist movement, the group of housewives who could not be "self-reliant" became their negative teaching material.
But the housewife was wronged. Although they did not earn real money, they paid a little more to the family, or even more. However, due to the weak social nature of housewives, their grievances had nowhere to tell until Schlafly appeared. That's why she got an overwhelming response as soon as she appeared. The feminist movement chose to sacrifice the group of housewives, and Schlafly chose to unite them and use their huge numbers as a bargaining chip in their future political games.
Outsiders know that this is just her bargaining chip. It doesn't really matter what she's thinking, she just needs to convince her followers that she's anti-feminist. In fact, it can be seen from the words that she comforted the children's aunt at the beginning that her own thoughts are far less extreme than those expressed in the future. But as feminists think, the more radical the more effective. Today, they are all headliners who can write 100,000+ blockbusters, and they are best at provoking people's hearts.
She has indeed become the target of candidates competing for the presidential election with the considerable number of votes in her hands. She realized her ideal of chatting and laughing with politicians and being treated as a guest of honor by senior officials, and she almost entered the core department of this country and could directly influence the center of national policy. If her partner, the winner, Ronald Reagan, didn't abandon her.
In fact, everyone knows which side of political correctness is, but the influence of political error is too huge to ignore. It's hard to tell who lied to whom, and people don't accuse so-called perfidy when they talk about winning or losing in politics. Winner or loser is the eternal truth.
The show's final shot is when Shlafley dons an apron and cooks for her husband. I like this ending. She was trapped in her own theory. Even if she had the world in her heart, she was still confined to the three-foot kitchen. This is the price of her success over the years and the reason why the ERA must be passed.
In the end, although the position is different, I think she is worthy of this sentence:
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