Some people say that this is not a TV show that plays the female card. It is true that it does not focus on the workplace and marriage challenges faced by modern women like "The Good Wife". But the most rare thing about "Vice President" is that it contributes a female villain who is extremely scarce on screen. Counting the female images in the history of art, if they are not the noble Virgin, the hero (usually a male character) who protects the story noble and great; they are the enchantress, an object of male desire. Give a simple example-"Snow White"-Snow White, the Virgin; stepmother, the witch.
What is a female villain? Gillian Flynn, author of "Gone Girls", said that female villains are not grumpy women calculated to find a good husband or better shoes, they are not indifferent white Anglo-Saxon mothers, and they are not simple shrews.
Selina Meyer is a rare villain through and through, a character who is usually a male, cruel, angry, powerful, and doesn't know how to apologize. An elementary school student visited the office of the vice president and said that he would become the vice president when he grew up. Meyer interrupted her immediately, no, you don't want to be the vice president, you want to be the president. To be president is not to save her husband’s career, not to protect her partners and family, but just because she has ambitions, wants power and victory. why not? Even the saint Alicia finally said, I want to run because I want to win. The contemporary lady Macbeth would not be willing to hand Macbeth a dagger, they personally went to battle to take the enemy's head. The natural crown also belongs to them in the end.
At this point, it seems to be a modern "Valkyria". In fact, as one of the most powerful women in the free world, Selina Meyers still encounters the plight of modern women. When she was visiting Finland, the husband of the Prime Minister of Finland squeezed her breasts. Meyers was furious, but pretended that nothing happened. Her male subordinate said that this sexual harassment is equivalent to a terrorist attack on the United States, and a nuclear strike should be carried out on Finland (hahaha). Meyer's female staff said, "No, I can't say it. This incident will define you. You will always be a victim." Meyer agreed. Because "We live in a man's world. Because of the axis of dick."
The same dilemma comes at the moment when we stand for abortion rights. To support abortion rights is to betray the president at the time; to oppose abortion rights is to betray one's own body. Meyer said a classic sentence at the time: "If the pregnant man is a man, we will have an abortion function on every ATM." She can't remind the public that she is a woman, because men don't like women in power, and women are absolutely absent. Most of them hate women, and they don't like women in power.
Selina Meyer is such a villain who is dishonest, cunning, and has no bottom line, but I like it very much. For her unconcealed ambition. She seemed to be returning to the old position of veep again, and I was a little unhappy.
(Ps Flynn also mentioned that women do not have the same vocabulary about violence and sex as men do. This is true. Think about how many verbal violence can be directed at women, but about men? Exhausting the imagination of the entire Chinese network, it is only There was a "straight male cancer", and perhaps another "diaosi". Selina Meyer was unobstructed, f word and various organs frequently appeared. But she still used the swear word of the patriarchal society. The subordinate groups are No language.)
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