The Weibo action shows the social and legal status quo of the LGBT community in my country
In the comics she wears a red, yellow and blue bikini, and in the movie she wears tribal leather. Armed with a shield, she lashes out at her enemies, torturing their souls.
She is an important milestone in the history of American comics and a representative figure of female superheroes.
She is Wonder Woman - Diana.
But what we are going to tell today is not the DC superhero movie, but the legend behind this image.
The story takes place in America in the early 20th century.
In 1928, Professor William Moulton Marston (hereinafter referred to as Professor Marston) taught the emerging discipline of psychology at Harvard University. With the help of his wife Elizabeth, he collaborated with student volunteer Oliver to study what he created. The DISC model of human emotion.
This model argues that all human relationships ultimately fall into the four emotional categories of dominance, induction, submission, and compliance.
Oliver has an unusual life experience. She has an unfortunate childhood experience. Her father is drunk all the time, and her mother is busy with her career and fosters her in a monastery.
At the same time, her mother (Ethel Byrne) and aunt (Margaret Sanger) were also the most famous feminists of the time, which deeply influenced her.
During the collaboration, Oliver invited the Marstons to a tour of the "Babyparties Federation," a small religious group that is all women and asked them to dress like babies. When one member makes a mistake, another member who is paired with her punishes it by slapping the buttocks with a plank.
By observing Oliver's reaction, the Marstons found that changes in human emotions affect the contraction of blood pressure. From this, they invented the "systolic blood pressure" test method, which is a polygraph device that binds a test strip to the human chest and converts the vibration of the heartbeat into waveform data. It is the prototype of the modern polygraph.
However, in order to verify the accuracy of the instrument, they found it necessary to ask questioners what they really cared about.
That's right, it's like this | Elizabeth on the left, Oliver in the middle, Dr. Marston on the right
So, when Elizabeth asked Professor Marston if he liked Oliver, although Professor Marston said "no", he was lying about the test results;
When Professor Marston asked Elizabeth if she liked Oliver, although Elizabeth wanted to deny it, the instrument showed that she did;
When Professor Marston asked Oliver if he liked himself and Elizabeth, whether it was herself or the instrument, it was stated that Oliver did like the Marstons at the same time.
At first, the three felt terrified and unacceptable, but after a long period of communication and analysis of their own emotions, they admitted their emotions and lived together bravely. The Marstons called Oliver Elizabeth's widow. sister.
One day in 1940, Professor Marston walked into a clothing store that sold sexy uniforms. Under the introduction of the owner, Charles Guyette (the originator of American fetish art), he passed some pictures and villains. The book learned about BDSM culture, and was surprised to find that whipping, riding, oppression and other behaviors are all metaphors for domination, inducement, surrender, and submission in its DISC theory.
In order to convince the two wives, Professor Marston took them to Guyette's shop and visited the rope arts performance. Then, when Oliver tried on the clothes in the store——
In the dim light, a girl wearing black high leather boots, a dark golden bikini, and holding a whip gradually walked out, like a goddess walking out of the darkness.
This scene shocked the Marston couple, and also made Professor Marston engraved a shadow in his heart. When he combined this shadow with images, mini-books, comics, and the feminist movement that was in full swing at the time, the sluggish superhero comics When combined with female figures.
A woman from the depths of the Amazon jungle, from the paradise island of the world, was born.
He handed over the conceived story to Max Gaines, the head of DC Comics at the time, and the two hit it off, and soon Wonder Woman, a brand-new superhero image, was logged into DC Comics.
With a refreshing female protagonist, a strong and anti-patriarchal feminist awareness, and the content of the story fits the background of the World War II era, the sales of "Wonder Woman" have also successfully surpassed "Superman".
However, soon after the National Weathering Alliance announced that it would ban "Wonder Woman", it turned out that Professor Marston integrated part of his three lives into the comics in his creation.
"People are being whipped, spanked, chained, trapped and gagged."
Not only is the content objectionable to Catholics, the American Child Development Association has also accused Professor Marston of having an excessively erotic element in his work, which is detrimental to children's mental health.
Misfortunes do not come singly. The three lives of Professor Marston were finally smashed by the neighbors. They were puzzled, fearful, and hostile. From their eyes, words, to behavior, the attitudes and actions of the neighbors deeply hurt the three, even the children. also affected. As a last resort, Oliver chose to take his children away and only brought them on weekends.
After a series of massive trauma, Professor Marston developed severe skin cancer. In the last moments of his life, he persuaded Oliver and Elizabeth, giving them all the encouragement that they, two women, had the courage to live together without fear of worldly vision.
In 1947, Professor Marston died, and Elizabeth lived with Oliver for another 38 years, until Oliver died in 1985, and Elizabeth was 100 years old.
This is the story of the birth of Wonder Woman, the happy (most of the time) life of Professor Marston, and the legendary experience of Oliver and Elizabeth, two bisexual women.
In the process of watching the film, I was deeply admired and impressed by the diverse attitude towards sexuality reflected in the film.
A century ago, the United States could stage such a romantic, advanced, and diverse emotional story. It is no wonder that the LGBT movement can be unprecedentedly high in the United States.
The picture shows the White House lights up Rainbow Island to celebrate the legalization of gay marriage
I think such stories are not unique in our country. However, LGBT groups such as homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender people are still viewed by mainstream society with colored glasses.
Recently, content censorship on Sina Weibo has attracted a lot of attention.
On April 13, Sina Weibo launched a three-month special "clean-up" campaign on its platform. Weibo completely bans pornographic, homosexual content and content containing violent and bloody games
Sina Weibo, the most influential social media site in China that cooperates with the government, said the cleanup targets of the operation include:
1. Comics and short videos that involve pornography, promote bloody violence, and homosexual themes, such as content containing the following characteristics: "corrupt, basic, danmei, book";
2. Illegal games with violent content (such as Grand Theft Auto, Mafia, mercenaries) and related short video content.
This is not Sina's "wonderful idea", but a follow-up to an Internet cleanup.
Not long ago, on April 4, the official WeChat account of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television issued a notice that it would seriously deal with the two websites of Toutiao and Kuaishou, both of which have the largest number of users in China and are seriously involved in vulgarity, violence, blood, pornography and other harmful issues. On April 6, the State Internet Information Office issued an official document, ordering Kuaishou and Huoshan Small Video to deal with issues involving vulgar and bad information about minors; on April 10, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television announced that it ordered the permanent closure of Toutiao. "Intrinsic Pieces".
The above-mentioned names are notorious on the Chinese Internet, and the government's handling of these companies has been widely praised, so much so that some people say "the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has done a good thing."
On April 13, however, the self-censorship conducted by Weibo did not receive positive reviews. Whether it was in the announcement—“Corrupt, Foundation, Danmei, Benzi” (Note ①) were all linked to homosexuality, or in the clean-up operation— The popular Weibo account "Voice of Gay" was forced to stop updating, and its indiscriminate, unjust, undisclosed, and unfair treatment of homosexual themes and homosexual groups angered many users.
In fact, in 2001, the Chinese Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the classification of mental illnesses, and in 2014, our national government made it clear that homosexuality cannot be discriminated against. And Weibo's actions against homosexuality are undoubtedly serious discrimination against domestic homosexuals, bisexuals and transgenders.
Soon, angry netizens expressed their attitudes through various voices and actions on the Internet and in real life.
Some people uploaded selfies with the caption "I'm gay". Although there are also non-gays among them, they have a rainbow logo on Weibo - a symbol of LGBT activism.
"You can't keep your mouth shut, you can't frame your love," the activists declared; "Tonight we are all gay," the Beijing LGBT Center posted on Weibo; the hashtag #I am gay# has reached 650 million views. At this moment, both heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgenders expressed their attitudes towards Sina Weibo's excessive actions: condemnation and dissatisfaction.
Two days later, on April 15, the People's Daily, the official newspaper representing the government, published an article titled ""Different fireworks," which can bloom just as well," implied dissatisfaction with Weibo's actions.
The article mentioned the latest edition of a textbook on sexual health for primary school students, which wrote: "There is more than one sexual orientation, whether homosexuality or bisexuality is normal, not a disease",
Being able to write such content in elementary school textbooks reflects the degree of civilization of our society to a certain extent, especially the individual rights - sexual orientation is a personal right, as long as it does not hinder others, everyone has the choice to live their own life. freedom of the way,
And the rights of minorities - homosexuals, bisexuals, transgenders, etc. are minorities in terms of sexual orientation, and protecting the rights of minorities is a necessity of social fairness and justice.
This narrative is undoubtedly progressive and beneficial to children who have received or are receiving sexual health education.
The article also mentions that if it involves a crime, no matter what kind of sexual orientation, it should and must be punished by the law. Currently, there are blatant pornographic, violent, illegal and illegal acts under the guise of homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgenders on the Internet. Sexual orientation has become a sign of grandstanding, and eloquence and eyeballs have replaced fair voices and turned into kitsch and vulgar performances.
This means that homosexuals are normal citizens, and while claiming their rights, they must also undertake their own social responsibilities.
At the end of the article, sex is not shameful, and love is even more so. I hope that more people can let go of their prejudices, eliminate misunderstandings, and tolerate others. May every kind of love not be hurt, and may everyone be able to live out their inner colors.
After the People's Daily published the article, on April 16, three days after the first notice was issued, the Weibo community announced another notice,
Weibo: "This game anime cleanup is no longer aimed at homosexuality", but the topic of ban has not been restored
"This game animation cleanup is no longer aimed at homosexual content, but mainly to clean up pornographic, violent and bloody content. Thank you for your discussions and suggestions."
The community then restored some deleted and banned accounts and topics.
Is this storm over? From the results, the support of users and netizens, the voice of the official newspaper, the compromise of Sina Weibo, etc., show everyone's attention and support for the LGBT community. But this kind of attention and support is only and can only be temporary at present.
It is not the first time that the sex education reader mentioned in the People's Daily article has appeared in an official newspaper.
As early as 2017, there were news reports that some parents were disgusted with the large-scale vocabulary and content in the latest edition of "Sexual Health Education Reader for Elementary School Students", especially, some parents expressed concern about "male-male love" and "female-female love" among them. Waiting for the picture to feel extremely inappropriate.
In this regard, although experts and scholars have proposed that the textbook has been strictly reviewed and can be read and learned by children under the guidance of professional teachers, some schools have withdrawn the textbook due to pressure from parents.
This reflects that the current sex education in my country is still in a relatively backward stage, and this kind of conservative has lasted for a long time.
Taking the post-95s groups like the author and roommates as examples, the author made a small survey to 6 roommates,
The number of people who have received sex education in school classrooms in the past is 0, and all of them are self-taught;
The number of people who have received education related to LGBT groups such as homosexuality in the past is 0, and everyone hardly knows or pays attention to LGBT groups. Even though we make fun of each other with "gay" and "gay" all the time, and even though we know we're joking, there's a hidden truth about our lack of respect for the LGBT community.
The author started primary school in 2003. After decades, my country's education system still cannot widely accept sex education. Even if we can compile a more advanced and suitable sex education textbook, parents and public opinion are like mountains standing in the way.
This phenomenon is closely related to our social and legal background.
In my country, "sex education" has long been a taboo topic.
Traditional Confucian culture makes us try our best to avoid talking about sex. Until now, parents in many families still find it difficult to talk about sex with their children. Like parents, teachers are victims of the severe lack of sex education in the past. They themselves lack relevant knowledge and attitudes, let alone education. child.
For educational institutions, their attitude towards sex education is also contradictory and ambiguous.
Some educators believe that sex education is completely unnecessary, because "everyone comes here this way, this is tradition", and this backward and closed thinking still exists.
Of course, there are also some educators with more advanced ideas. They actively promote relevant education courses. However, due to parents’ incomprehension, misinterpretation by the media, and pressure from the top, these advanced educations are forced to die early, or "Still stillborn".
These problems, in the final analysis, are directly related to the vague attitude of our government and the blank of the law.
Although the Chinese government, mainly the Ministry of Education, has promulgated various opinions and outlines in the past ten years, such as the Outline of Special Education on AIDS Prevention for Primary and Secondary School Students, and the Guidance Outline of Health Education in Primary and Secondary Schools.
However, these relevant regulations and policies lack specific and rigid provisions, and the implementation of sex education is insufficient.
These outlines and regulations are only macro-level guidance, without specific content and implementation rules, and lack operability. Moreover, for sex education, there is no clear education department to assume corresponding responsibilities, and there is no mandatory enforcement requirements, resulting in a large number of schools taking a perfunctory attitude.
At the same time, the content of the above-mentioned outlines and regulations for adolescent sex education is basically limited to the level of "adolescent physical development and psychological growth" and "STD and AIDS prevention". Take a peek at the nature and connotation of sex education, not to mention related education for LGBT groups such as homosexuals.
Moreover, the neglect of the LGBT community not only exists in education, but also in large gaps in the law.
First of all, my country has not yet made clear regulations on same-sex marriage at the legislative level.
The "Marriage Law" repeatedly mentions the key word "both men and women", that is, the marriage recognized by our country's law must be a marriage of one man and one woman, and one husband and one wife. Obviously, homosexuality does not belong to this category. Our country's law presents an ambiguity that neither opposes nor recognizes homosexuality. Child rearing, property inheritance, etc.
In fact, as early as 2000, at a meeting of the National People's Congress to collect opinions, Li Yinhe, a representative of the meeting, had already put forward a proposal to add a same-sex marriage clause to the "Marriage Law". discussion.
Later, she drafted the "Same-Sex Marriage Act" and continued to improve it. However, whenever she delegates the draft to the delegates, the results are always in vain.
In 2001, the draft was brought into the Great Hall of the People, but there were not enough delegates to reconsider and sign it. In my country, 30 representatives are required to reconsider and sign the bill before it becomes a formal bill.
In 2002, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference signed his name under the proposal, but until the closing of the two sessions, the media barely mentioned the proposal.
In 2006, some media reported that in the face of this draft, a spokesman for the CPPCC said, "Same-sex marriage is still ahead of its time in China."
In the following years, drafts were still submitted, but they still repeatedly hit a wall.
At the end of 2015, the Anti-Domestic Violence Law of the People's Republic of China was passed at the National People's Congress. The "cohabitation relationship" included in it once gave same-sex couples hope. In my country, the law does not recognize same-sex marriage, so same-sex couples only belong to cohabitation relationships.
However, shortly afterward, the head of the Social Law Office of the National People's Congress said: "We have not found any violence between homosexuals in our country, so homosexuals are not included." This shows the official attitude at the time.
The above content shows that there are gaps in the rights and interests of LGBT groups such as gays and lesbians in my country's laws. However, as LGBT groups such as gays and lesbians have gradually entered the public eye in recent years, they no longer remain silent, but speak out bravely; the attitude of the government is also gradually changing. , Take this Weibo incident as an example, the official newspapers also represent the current and latest government attitude to a certain extent.
Since the Netherlands took the lead in recognizing same-sex marriage in 2001, a total of 28 countries and regions have legalized same-sex marriage, including the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and other world powers. In 2017, the justice of Taiwan's "Judicial Yuan" made a judicial interpretation on the constitutional interpretation of same-sex marriage, finding that the current civil law does not allow same-sex marriage to be "unconstitutional", making Taiwan the first region in Asia where same-sex marriage is legal.
We have reason to believe that with the continuous development of society, when the Chinese people have more and deeper understanding of the LGBT community, when the LGBT community makes a louder and more profound voice, when the Chinese government promulgates more progressive and more complete measures for the LGBT community. When it comes to law, our society is fixed like a rainbow, more colorful and more diverse.
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