I cried a lot while watching a few episodes in the first few episodes.
It is not because of the awakening of women's awareness of resistance, the hardships of the process of equal rights, or the achievement of staged victory, but because of seeing two forces that should be converging that are contrary to the ideal situation, but because of cognitive biases, they constantly compete and conflict. opposition. This almost irreconcilable contradiction makes people involuntarily sad and regretful.
Opposition and supporters are in different but similar situations for the Gender Equality Act (ERA), they are both stared at by men, despised by people who talk to them, have to compromise or castrate themselves, are constantly pushed aside by power and work through political activism up. To break into the upper echelons of society, Mrs. Schlafly had to rely on ill-intentioned TV presenters, wearing a red dress to keep smiling at the male politicians around the salon, even when she heard oral sex jokes: "The best thing to do is to shut up a secretary. What's a good way?—block it."
The opposition in the show even relies on self-deception to strengthen their beliefs (though this may be just an unconscious self-protection mechanism), insisting on chanting untenable slogans to continue their protests. Do they really believe that being a housewife is better and can bring them everything? Mastering the skills of accounting for income and expenditure, giving speeches, organizing social movements, following up on the financial situation of the organization in real time, and maintaining the social communication network, they are essentially professional women. In fact, the opponents, like the supporters of the bill, completed the identification of personal values in political activities and realized the transition from family identity to social identity. Without knowing it, they briefly gained the women's rights that feminists hoped to normalize by opposing gender equality.
Because of this, the tragic and tearful point of this play for me is this: the opposing sides of this event, regardless of their political views, how much they share their beliefs, and regardless of the sacrifices made for their purpose, The core gender is female.
As far as the outcome of the event is concerned, no woman on either side has become the final winner.
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