Women and Education

Elenora 2021-12-07 08:01:40

"How——Do——You Do?", with a strong British accent greeting, the drama version of "Slim Lady" kicked off at the Penghao Theater in Dongcheng District. The story was born out of "The Flower Girl" by the British dramatist Bernard Shaw, and it is better known as the movie version of Audrey Hepburn playing the heroine, which was then adapted into a drama version of "The Fair Lady" which has been performed hundreds of times on Broadway. , Enduring. The performance was organized by the American professional actor and director Joseph Graves and his Peking University students. This is the first performance of the well-known drama version of "The Fair Lady" in China.

"The Fair Lady" is just a simple story: Professor Hegan, who studies phonetics, and his friends bet that he can turn a flower girl who can be seen everywhere in Britain’s dirty streets into a high-class lady in a few months. After the devilish voice and manners training of Professor Hegan, Flower Girl Doolittle finally blinded everyone in an important court ball and was mistaken for the princess of a certain European country. Professor Hegan’s efforts succeeded. When he and his friends were immersed in the joy of victory, Miss Doulit, who was ignored, found that she was nothing but a prop to fulfill Professor Hegan’s wishes, so she ran away angrily. Professor Hegen woke up and realized that the relationship between the two ended up happily.

There are many factors in "Fair Lady" that ensure the success of the story: here, the class boundaries are simplified to the distinction between voice and behavior, and Mr. Hegen's thoughts in the upper class are separated from the upper class and the bottom society, and are only shaped. Becoming a knowledgeable intellectual who despises women, and the dramatic transformation of the ugly duckling into a white swan is probably what every audience likes to see.

What attracted me was the inexplicable act of Miss Doolittle who successfully returned home from the ball and threw Professor Hegan's slippers angrily. What is she dissatisfied with? Compared to the previous lack of food and clothing, she now has chocolate to eat and beautiful clothes to wear. She has just been introduced to everyone as a social star and has successfully changed her background. But this throw is wonderful! That was the awakening of her self-awareness and the declaration of her independence. She was no longer satisfied with being kept at home as an exhibition, and she also needed to be respected and understood. If you need to find out what caused her to change her mind, it's probably Professor Hegan's devil training. Under the guidance of Professor Hegan, she not only mastered the ladylike pronunciation and elegant manners, she also learned to respect, love and appreciate herself. Compared with the wild girl who was bouncing on the street in dirty clothes before, Miss Doolittle has completed a completely reborn transformation.

If it is said that discussing women and education is only a branch of "Fair Lady", the one that goes further is "Growth Education", this film adapted from real things raises such a question, and it is still sobering today: " For a young woman, if her ultimate goal is to enter the upper class and live a respectable and comfortable life, instead of studying hard to earn a living on her own, why would it be more convenient and cheaper to simply marry into a wealthy family?" The

movie "Meng" "Narisha's Smile" is based on the background of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States, responding to the question of "Growth Education", and directly issued instructions to young women-"Be the Prime Minister, not the Prime Minister's wife!"

Due to anti-feudal needs, As early as the May Fourth Movement, China had popularized new concepts such as equality between men and women. Following the vigorous feminism launched by the West in the 1950s and 1960s, the status of women in various countries was generally improved, achieving equal pay for equal work economically, and politically speaking. Voting rights. The cultivation of independence and self-reliance not only requires changes in culture and climate, but education is also an important means to enhance independence. It is not only a tool for life and a way to improve social status, but also the basic qualities and abilities required by citizens in a civilized society.
2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of the "Open Letter from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to All Communist Youth League Members on the Issue of Controlling my country's Population Growth". This letter appropriately analyzes and explains the problems and solutions that may arise after the implementation of family planning. Among them, the worry that "there are more men than women" after the implementation of family planning is given this answer-"The people of New China, especially the younger generation, must overcome the old idea of ​​patriarchal patriarchy. If only one girl is born, the same is true. Raise her well.”

Now it seems that this kind of worry is very necessary, and it is not excessive at all. Medical statistics have found that the natural ratio of male to female newborns is 105 to 100. In the process of growing up, the mortality rate of males is usually higher than that of females. After adulthood, the ratio of men to women returns to 100 to 100. However, in recent years, with the improvement of medical and health conditions, the abuse of B-ultrasound and random abortions have emerged one after another. The worry of "more men than women" has not only been confirmed but also has become more serious. The notion of patriarchy is still deeply rooted, and the underdevelopment of social security makes the concept of “raising children to protect against the elderly” still has a market. According to the statistics of Asian population proportions from 2000 to 2005 by the United Nations, the sex ratio of infants and young children in China is as high as 120 to 100. Far more than the natural ratio of 105 to 100, ranking first among Asian countries. Globally, the number of female infants who have disappeared due to abnormal means such as abortion, killing, and allowing them to fend for themselves has reached 100 million, and they are exclaimed as "gender massacre."

The artificial selection of the sex of an unborn baby is attributable to sex discrimination and is inhumane, and has a serious impact on population structure, social stability and development. Emphasizing women and their values ​​is not only the goal but also a means to reverse this situation. Relying on economic development alone is not enough to curb this phenomenon. Only when the culture of various countries is changed and the concept is updated can the patriarchy lose the cultivation soil and become untimely. Effectively enhance the status and value of women, especially promote women's education in backward areas, change the decadent concepts of local residents, and encourage women to participate in society as much as possible through various publicity channels and system designs.

At the same time, the poverty alleviation experience of international organizations such as the World Bank has increasingly shown that helping a boy can only save a boy, while helping a girl can save a family. Women not only have the same social attributes as men, but what is more important and most easily overlooked is her family attributes—mother. She is responsible for the gestation, training and education of the family’s children. Her quality and educational level are highly related to her children. The growth and education of the future generations, and the education of the next generation is related to the civilized degree of the citizens of the future society. I saw such a mother in a border poverty alleviation project. She took the eggs laid by her own hen to the market in exchange for instant noodles for her children. I think a poor mother learns a little about nutrition when she is young or even younger. She will not do this, and it is impossible to do it. Therefore, leaning toward girls in poverty relief not only greatly benefits individuals, but also greatly improves family health, economic conditions, and girls’ next-generation growth.

Regardless of whether it is from the perspective of personal values ​​to enhance personal dignity, from the perspective of human ethics, or from the perspective of helping the poor, helping girls and improving women's education are a major and unavoidable theme. It is a means and process to improve social well-being, and it is also one of the ultimate goals of social development. The benefits of women's education to individuals, families and society are huge and immeasurable. Today, 30 years after the publication of the "Open Letter", a return to and understanding of the "Open Letter" still has great epochal significance. In the face of the problems that have arisen, the legislature, the government, and civil organizations have already begun to take action. Article 22 of the Family Planning Law clearly states that “discrimination and abuse of women who give birth to female babies and infertile women are prohibited. Discrimination, abuse, and Abandoning female infants." The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Comprehensively Strengthening Population and Family Planning Work to Coordinate and Solve Population Problems", for the comprehensive treatment of the high sex ratio of the birth population, clearly prohibits non-medical need for fetal gender identification and manual termination of gender selection Pregnancy; the "Hope Project" and "Spring Bud Project" organized by the China Youth Development Foundation and the China Children and Teenagers' Fund have funded a large number of dropout girls to return to school. With the aging of the population becoming more apparent and changes in the demographic structure today, starting from the family planning policy and the "Open Letter", starting from the simple slogan "Both boys and girls are the same" that can be seen everywhere on rural walls, pay attention to girls and improve Women’s education initiatives have already begun, but they are far from over.


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  • Jason 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    Audrey Hepburn is my fair lady!

  • Ethyl 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    It's too verbose... some of the shots are pretty good, and the lines are okay. But the story is so powerless and empty.

My Fair Lady quotes

  • Cockney: We've got a bloomin' heiress in our midst. Will you be needing a butler, Eliza?

    Eliza Doolittle: Well, you won't do.

  • Lady at Ball: That young woman with Colonel Pickering, find out who she is.

    Zoltan Karpathy: With pleasure!