Although "Mrs. America" has only aired six episodes, fans of the show believe:
It's the best feminist film this year, yes, the Emmys are scheduled for next year, and that's it!
Just by looking at the screenwriter and cast, you know you can't refuse. The big devil Cate Blanchett really played a witch this time - the famous anti-feminist in American history, Phyllis Schlafly.
Why erect a biography of a disgraced person? Is it black feminism?
I just found out that it turns out that from an anti-feminist figure, we can see more clearly what a truly independent new woman is.
1. She walked out of the house, but kept her sisters at home
To understand this play, you must first understand a little bit of the social background at that time. In the 1970s, the United States had just experienced the golden decade of the feminist movement. Driven by progressive forces, the Equal Rights Amendment Act, referred to as ERA (the Act to Ensure Women Have the Same Legal Rights as Men), was about to be a great success.
However, the wheel of history stopped, and more dramatically, the Terminator turned out to be his own sister-a woman.
Her name is Phyllis Schlafly. She is anti-feminist, anti-abortion, anti-gay, and advocates that women should be born with husbands and children at home.
The concept is extremely conservative and backward, but she has deceived countless housewives with sophistication. She told the housewives that feminists look down on you at all.
She steals the concept and interprets the equality of men and women as the exact sameness of men and women.
so that your daughter will be drafted;
You do not get alimony if you are divorced;
also forced to work;
Even shared toilets...
These words really made people's eyes dark, but they moved many housewives and gained a large number of supporters.
Then she came up with a brilliant idea. Let the housewives push the stroller with freshly baked bread in the car and give it to the MPs who come to vote.
There was also a small card on the loaf that read: "The housekeeper gives the breadwinner".
The male politicians who support their families feel so heartbroken when they see this, they will kill them as soon as they count the votes.
After a pass operation, the ERA, which was a sure thing, was stillborn. History went backwards, but Phyllis became famous and became a well-known figure in the Republican Party.
"Mrs. America" revolves around Phyllis and tells the story of the ups and downs of the American feminist movement in the 1970s. In the play, Phyllis is unusual as soon as he appears
She wore a swimsuit and walked the runway at the charity gala, beautiful and mature, with her own halo.
Her resume is even more impressive. Master of Political Science, expert on national defense issues, author of a million-dollar best-selling book, has participated in two parliamentary elections, and just received an invitation from a TV show...
The housework is handled by a maid, and the children's homework is all covered by her sister-in-law. Phyllis doesn't want to be a quiet housewife. It is her poetry and distance to become a powerful woman in the political world.
In fact, Phyllis knew that women couldn't stay in the family.
There is a detail in the play. She made a cake, dressed it up and sent it to her husband's office in person, all kinds of flattery, just to get him to sign a credit card.
What are you doing? I want to buy a dress for my mother.
Phyllis delivered a new dress, and when she saw that the floor of her mother's house was broken, the wallpaper was leaking, and there were unpaid bills on the cupboard, she turned her head.
Obviously, she can't even make the money to buy a dress, let alone that.
The reality does not allow her to be a traditional woman, and she does not think that the housewife life is the best choice, but she shouted on the TV program: (Women) at home is liberation.
What kind of obfuscation is this?
She pursues independence, but persuades other women to return to the family. Especially, after suffering all kinds of discrimination and oppression, she still has no turning back. Are you blind?
2. From defense expert to anti-ERA witch
It starts with one thing.
As a defense expert, Phyllis once went to Washington for a meeting. Among the men in the room, Phyllis was interrupted as soon as he said a few words, and he was assigned the job of a recorder.
Despite her professional level, in those days, no matter how smart a woman was, she was only worthy of being a senior secretary. Just like the rose-grey dress she wore, it was low-key and pleasing to the eye, harmless to humans and animals, and she was a lady.
With a professional smile, Phyllis went to get the record book, when she heard slogans in support of ERA coming from the window.
She had a brainstorm and thought that the topic could be used to get the senator's attention. Sure enough, the senator praised her a lot after criticizing the feminist movement.
This incident inspired Phyllis. Since then, she has begun to specialize in anti-affirmative action to gain political capital. That is to say, she is not really anti-feminist, nor does she work for the welfare of housewives.
For her, just changing the runway is as simple as changing jobs.
Phyllis is not blind, she understands very well that the reason why she cannot succeed is not because she is not good or hard, but because as a woman, she has no chance in the world of men.
From her, we see how important the feminist movement is, it determines the fate of all women, even women with privileged conditions like Phyllis are victims of a patriarchal society. But to challenge the rules and change the world, this road is too difficult. A smart person like Phyllis, of course, understands that it is better to use the rules to succeed immediately, rather than dedicating his life to travel for the younger generation.
For her, it doesn't matter whether women have rights or not, fairness and justice are floating clouds, and her own success is justice. From Phyllis, we can also see that the pioneers of the feminist movement are admirable, and they are using their best years to pave the way for the happiness of future generations.
And Phyllis doesn't want to be a pioneer, she has to obstruct the happiness of women all over the world. In that regard, she's even more hateful than those true anti-feminists.
Since the rules can be used, of course, people can be used. Phyllis is shrewd and smooth, and he also uses all means to suppress and use his sisters and friends around him.
Compared with the feminist camp, it is a relationship of harmony and difference. Gloria and Betty were at odds for a while.
However, when Betty lost to Phyllis in the debate and was hit hard, Gloria took the initiative to call to encourage Betty, she quoted a famous quote in Betty's book: why women can only accept half-life glitz, but not in human destiny occupy a place in it.
"Your book changed my life," she told Betty.
This passage is very touching, the warmth and concern you can even touch.
Behind the idea of equal rights is actually understanding, sincerity and love, real sisters, not the hypocrisy and cunning like Phyllis.
In the play, the big devil played a lot of scenes where Phyllis was wearing lipstick and making up. These lens languages tell us that Phyllis's beauty and her charm are carefully dressed up in the background.
There's a play out. Phyllis is wearing make-up and she will be on stage in a few moments to argue with a female lawyer. After wiping off the lipstick, she wiped off the lipstick marks on her teeth with her fingers, with a grim smile on her face, like a bloodthirsty beast. This is her true face.
Although female, Phyllis is actually the other side of the evil side of patriarchal society.
3. She is discriminated against because she is not good enough
There is also a confusion, is Phyllis really an independent woman?
If so, she has something to admire. I don't think so. It's true that Phyllis has pursued independence all her life, but she doesn't know what independence is.
First of all, for her husband, it is really a blessing. You are so handsome, your calves are really strong, you are the smartest lawyer in the United States... Every day, all kinds of sweet words come when you open your mouth.
No matter what the husband says, it is right.
Once, her husband openly said to her: A successful person should marry a young and beautiful person. Don't look at me, this is a biological decision.
Phyllis is almost 50, she can't not be angry, but her IQ is suddenly offline, and she doesn't say a word.
Excuse me, which woman with an independent personality would be so flattering and swallowing her voice.
Although she is courteous in every possible way, her husband is not considerate to her. She went to Washington for a day's meeting, and came back very tired. She might not be able to rest. It depends on her husband's intentions. Phyllis is really pitiful. He kept saying that the contact lenses hurt to death, but his husband refused to let her take them off.
Facing her husband who graduated from Harvard Law School, Phyllis was terrified.
In order not to be looked down upon by her husband, she even lied to him, saying that she had been admitted to Harvard Law School, but was exposed by her husband on the spot. Because, at the wrong time, it took five years for Harvard to start coeducation.
This is a double irony. Without affirmative action, Phyllis's desire to go to law school would never have come true, but she turned her gun on feminism.
Her husband looked down on her. When she was admitted to law school at the age of 50, he was not proud of her, but became furious, saying: You are too old, who still applies to law school at 50! "
Really very heartless, very sad.
The son told the truth in one sentence: Dad lost his advantage in this way.
What kind of family is this? The husband is always in the dominant position, and the wife is only his vassal and subordinate. There is no independence at all.
Regarding the issue of feminism, Phyllis expressed his true thoughts in the first episode. There are always women who blame sexism for their failures instead of admitting they didn't try hard enough, she said.
In reality, she really thought so.
When her friend was bullied by her husband, everyone sympathized with her, but Phyllis said lightly that it was because she couldn't deal with her husband. In other words, you are stupid and you deserve it!
This is not only cold-blooded, but also demeaning to women. The discrimination and injustice faced by women are understood as her personal disappointment.
She is so cruel to herself. In the fifth episode, due to the failure of the debate (this part was so exciting, the female lawyer made her speechless), Phyllis's husband took anger at her and made her look ugly on the spot, making her humiliated in front of a national TV audience.
This was the only time Faisley and her husband had a heated argument. Faisley slammed the door and walked away. Faisley was so angry that she slapped herself hard and huddled on the bed like a baby.
The front is like a goddess, but the back has no dignity, self-deprecation, and ego is as weak as a baby.
The big devil played so well that we couldn't see the expression on Phyllis's face. She used a bleak back to show Phyllis's pitiful and hateful side.
Only then can we understand why Phyllis has suffered so much injustice outside of her home, but she doesn't know how to resist, because she has long since rationalized everything through self-deprecation and self-servitude. She doesn't hate patriarchal society, what she hates is that she is not the ruler here.
The most profound thing about this play is that it tells us that in a society where men and women are unequal, the greatest harm to women is not discrimination, loss of opportunities, or even domestic violence, but taking away a person's dignity and self. Now, let her act as a pusher of evil while suffering from male power.
About Phyllis, it's all in this still.
She stared at us from the railing, seven parts somber, three parts scary, and inside the railing were her and her fellow anti-ERA. She is an anti-equality demon and a prisoner in a cage. She not only has no freedom, but also buries freedom.
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