In today's public opinion environment, dramas that dare to use "anti-feminist" as the protagonist are solid, but they also attract my attention. In addition to the selection of dramas by the great devil Kate, when I saw the preview, I was very concerned about this drama. Looking forward to the drama. This show is indeed a very serious, based on historical events and historical figures, telling the process of the "Equal Rights Amendment" ERA and the feminist movement, and also shaped Gloria, Bella, Betty, Jill, etc. A series of very attractive and terrific women who are committed to feminism with historical archetypes, but I think the most complicated, most debated, most hateful and pathetic in the show is still Phyllis Schlafly.
On the surface, the heroine is the most typical middle-class American housewife. Her husband is a lawyer, she has six children, and she lives a very prosperous life. However, she is obsessed with zz. She is a graduate student at Yale University and has been studying national defense issues for many years. It was a man's meeting, but no one cared about her opinion at all, and even asked her to do the secretarial job of recording. The first episode of this drama fully demonstrated the plight of career women in that era, and it is very advanced that these expressions do not match. Not an intense conflict, but embedded in everyone's actions. For example, her husband listened to her as if he was listening to a child talking nonsense, and pushed her into bed regardless of her fatigue. The man mentioned that she was more concerned about her appearance and so on.
Do you think feminists will be outraged and go down the road of feminism? Of course not, our heroine is a very famous anti-feminist in history. She found that her anti-feminist remarks about traditional families were supported by housewives, so she started her own organization.
This is also the most dramatic and interesting point of the play. The core reason is that the heroine finds that women want to gain attention in the political arena, the direction of feminism can attract the attention of male politicians the most, and her anti-feminist stance can be fully supported by the Conservative Party. Therefore, for the female lead, this is just a zz game, no different from those male politicians who care about women's rights. They just use women as votes and chips. This becomes more and more obvious as the story progresses. In the end, the heroine's eagle organization has become a considerable bargaining chip. It is a force that cannot be ignored in the presidential campaign. The heroine finally gained fame and attention. , standing in the middle of a group of men. One of the most ironic of this is that the show spends a lot of time talking about how the housewives were against the ERA. They looked so energetic and alive, they preached, rallied, marched, and they looked just like the feminists who were against the ERA. The more successful it is, the more sarcastic the effect becomes.
The most dazzling among them is naturally the heroine. She gets more and more attention, interviews, speeches, and debates. At this time, the audience has questions: Does she have time to take care of her children and husband? Only then did we know that the children of the heroine who advocated the return of women to the family were taken care of by the sister-in-law, and she herself did not achieve the "return to the family" that she advocated. All this shows that whether it is feminism or ERA is not what the heroine cares about at all, the only thing she cares about is this bargaining chip.
And this is also the reason why the heroine is bound to fail - she is a traitor to women. She likes zz, national defense, and hopes to get equal respect and opportunities to develop her talents. These are the demands of feminists. Therefore, in order to achieve her goals, despite being anti-feminist, she acts as an independent woman. She sacrifices the interests of the entire female group in exchange for herself. However, as Jill accused, "If you want to take advantage of a man, you must be careful to be stared at the bottom of your skirt by a man", and the final outcome also shows that the group that betrays oneself is impossible to end well, if there is no strength Truly in their own hands, men can take everything they give away at any time.
It's a pity to see the heroine's final ending; and looking back on her actions along the way, you will be amazed at her cleverness and hate her selfishness.
This play also rarely portrays an ordinary woman - Alice played by Sister Banana. She is a real housewife, her husband treats her well, and her family is happy, but this environment is like a frog in warm water, she is fascinated by Phyllis's confidence and ability, but she does not realize that it is The charm of independent women. There is an episode dedicated to how she found herself, she found out that the feminists she hated were once cute and lively girls, and she also had a husband and children she loved, who also liked the same songs as she, and they could sit on the grass Played the piano and danced together last time, and at that moment she realized that they were all women, and of course women can do what they want. So Alice finds a job at the end of the episode, and while not as committed to the feminist movement as in "The Eagle," takes her first steps as an independent woman. This is also the meaning of the feminist movement. Although ERA was not successful at the time, it awakened more women, and Alice in the play is their representative.
Each episode of the show is titled with a character, and you'll find that even within feminists there are many divisions, proving that your worst enemy is always yourself. There are the Democratic Party and the Conservative Party among feminists, and there are anti-gay and lesbian; each of them has different biggest demands. Some people hope that they can stand in the sunshine with their gay lovers, and some people hope that women can have reproductive freedom... Revolution It has never been smooth sailing, and the most important thing is to unite. Therefore, in the eighth episode of the Women's Conference, I saw that Betty, who was anti-gay, supported the legalization of homosexuality in order to unite women. I believe that many people are as excited as I am.
As a final note, never place feminist expectations on men. The biggest mistake Bella made in the show was not to support Shirley's presidential bid, but instead to pin his hopes on men, thinking that it would be an exchange of benefits. She is a mature politician, and her views and practices naturally have some truth, but the biggest mistake she made was to teach guns out, and in the end she could only helplessly break the contract. There are still people like Bella today. There is nothing wrong with men who unite and support equal rights, but you should always believe that the only one who can save yourself is yourself.
The Great Demon King said in an interview during the promotion of the series that, looking back on the history of the feminist movement, I hope that the original mistakes will not be made again today. Things that happened decades ago are not unfamiliar now. The most important thing is to never be a traitor to women. To oppose feminism is to oppose yourself as a woman.
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