◎ Yu Lu
When we consume something, we disintegrate it - the American drama "Roar" tells eight stories about women, but as a self-made drama of apple , it is undoubtedly a failure because it promotes a kind of confrontation Feminist Consumption: The more we emphasize the particularity of women, the more we must be wary of the tendency to ignore the white horse, because in my opinion, the root of women’s problems is the result of the small proportion of women in the process of defining human nature. . In a word, separating women from human nature leads to the transcendental objectivity of women, which is exactly contrary to the idea that we should insist on returning gender equality to human nature and making humanity transcendental to gender.
Just like the recent U.S. Supreme Court ended the U.S. Constitution’s nearly 50-year protection of women’s abortion rights. In fact, what is worth discussing is: should our position remain on “women’s rights”, or whether as a natural person, we have The right to take responsibility for one’s own body?
is duck PUA?
Once any issue related to women is labeled with excessive gender labels, it will be suspected of differentiation and narrowing. This also makes it impossible for people to seek the role of a "humanity community" to represent more macro and deep thinking. This It is also one of the reasons why similar issues will become "a 150-year setback in American history."
So the road to particularity is a narrow road. You can walk on a narrow road at the starting point, but you can't walk on a single-plank bridge. Being stubborn will definitely lead people away from the original intention and lead to aphasia between the sexes. Just as Sartre has repeatedly emphasized that "others are hell", the hell that philosophers have explored is an aphasic world where communication cannot be formed. If it is changed to "gender is hell", no matter what gender is filled in The era of hell for both sexes will never end.
But "Roar" is obviously cunning: when non-feminism becomes a kind of political incorrectness, it does not hesitate to stand on the opposite side of either/or. Therefore, its stories are of two types: first, clichéd gender topics; second, pan-gender stories wrapped in the cloak of feminism.
The former is not worth elaborating, while the latter must disenchant feminism as follows - one of the disenchantments of
: the issue of emotional emptiness is de-gendered.
's fifth most promising novel, "The Woman Fed by a Duck," tells the story of a single woman's love affair with a mallard in the park. Instead, the heroine fell into a mental quagmire after being gradually PUAed by the other person. Until my sister gave me a wake-up call, I kicked the duck out of life and headed towards a new life.
At the beginning of the story, the heroine told her personal situation in a video call with her sister: she is in her thirties, dates frequently but has no suitable person, has no illusions about relationships but has no lack of expectations, and even teased the ducks in the pond. , and even attracted mallard ducks to come ashore to chat with them.
However, how much gendering does this setting have? ——Whether the heroine is lonely and helpless when she is single, or she is confused about trying to rebuild her life by taking the medical license exam, it is not so much unique to single women as it is common to singles. Even the home where the heroine later took the duck back with whom she was happily chatting was solemn, dim, and lackluster—but it was still pan-gendered: single life mostly lacked interest and was not warm.
The subsequent process of the heroine being PUAed by a duck is not so much a woman being mentally manipulated, but rather a risk that anyone who longs to get rid of loneliness may face.
Mallard’s PUA here can be said to be smooth and flowing. The four steps are mainly: showing weakness and expressing needs for the heroine - criticizing and complaining about the heroine’s words and deeds, making her easily offended - restricting the heroine from going out to limit the radius of activity and controlling the outside world. Information intake-continuously doubting and belittling the heroine, creating low self-esteem in the heroine.
This is a story about manipulating power and turning the other party into a submissive long-term meal ticket, but the operator is a mallard. It uses a magical allegory to show mental abuse without racial distinction, and an indiscriminate exploitation of human nature: no matter whether the target is a man or a woman, as long as the other party's weakness can be stepped on, even if it is as small as Mallards that cannot crawl into a bathtub on their own can successfully parasitize and seize.
For example, when the mallard blames the heroine for making a mistake, he likes to eat bagels instead of sourdough bread. The important thing is not the sourdough bread, but to seize the right to evaluate by "attacking" the other party, and then he is in front of the other party. He fabricated carrots on the tip of his nose, those recognitions that he would never give, and then continued to sting the other party with complaints, strengthening the heroine's hunger for recognition.
Mallard uses both soft and hard tactics. Every time the heroine goes out, it not only poops everywhere to show its toughness, but also lowers its attitude and says "I don't lose my temper because I feel insecure when you are not here", which makes the heroine feel guilty - and The weaknesses these mallards are peeping out are due to human nature and are not specific to women.
The mallard takes advantage of human nature to constantly speculate, with skillful techniques like a butcher and a butcher. It even admires the way the heroine "hates me but doesn't realize you can kill me" until the heroine's sister yells at her:
Listen The heroine was denying herself, and her sister said, "Did he make you think this way? If this guy makes you demean yourself, I will kill him." As for whether the other person is a duck, it doesn't matter whether he is a man or a woman. Important, because my sister only knows one thing: "A person who cares about you will not stop you from living a life that makes you happy."
An interesting scene then flashed: the heroine who had previously withered out of life walked out of the restaurant and suddenly found herself in At the entrance of a Chinese restaurant, I walked towards rows of stove racks - " Peking Duck " hung there.
However, the history of the demise of the love affair with the duck may not have been borrowed from "The Goat" by the American playwright Albee. In "The Goat", an extremely lonely man falls passionately in love with a ewe, and subsequently gains a kind of spiritual peace that requires no words. What this cross-species magical technique reveals is the spiritual reality of modern people - the extreme alienation of spiritual relationships between people. Indeed, this story uses both women and ducks to illustrate loneliness, and it is by no means just an illustration of women’s loneliness. It’s just that the footnote of loneliness here happens to be a woman, and the one who came ashore happened to be a male duck.
However, this drama is full of strategies similar to grafting pan-humanity topics onto women, and subsequently reflects various fashionable illusions. This is also the crux of the story of this drama that mostly becomes a small essay with insufficient detail and concept first. .
Remove the magic, this duck story is actually extremely simple. If you change the title, it could be written as "A spiritual anti-fraud propaganda film for a lonely person", or even quote the straightforward intuition of a Douban comment: "Damn you! Be careful! And stay away from all the people of the opposite sex who slander you, slander you, and occupy all your time and private space. Stay away from closeness and maintain an open world in close relationships. Even when you don’t like yourself that much, be wary of PUAs and stay away from scum. "
- Like the song that must be sung when the KTV is turned on: "Reject pornography, reject gambling, reject pornography, gambling and drugs"?
Woman on the Shelf
Charm 2: The problem of human objectification is de-gendered.
In "The Woman on the Shelf", which is also relatively optimistic: a beauty who was born in a beauty pageant was put on the shelf by her wealthy boyfriend. She had to look up at her every day at work until she felt tired after three years, and the heroine left the shelf. I walked up and down, but found a job as a merchandise display in another beauty store - still sitting on the shelves.
First of all, this still does not specifically refer to women. At best, it is a story about the objectification of individuality: in the story, the female protagonist is placed on a shelf to display the value of her beautiful flowers, just as the male protagonist is also bending over his desk to exert his "efforts." The value of "making money" is the same, but the value of the two after materialization is different.
In essence, this is a story of bartering. For example, when the heroine stepped on the catwalk as a model, she "fell in love" with her boyfriend's prominent worth rather than the boyfriend himself. Under the premise that this underlying logic has never changed, the heroine's escape from the shelf cannot be called a spiritual growth, and it is definitely not an Nora -style escape - it's just that the old buyer's attention is no longer there. Her own value has depreciated, and she is looking for new ones to sell at a higher price.
This is a depiction of human beings turning the world into a supermarket and themselves into commodities, but it sprinkles it with feminist condiments to cover up this obviously stale topic. In fact, in the dialogue initiated by the Japanese philosopher Suzuki Suzuki and the psychologist Fromm, he has already made a conclusion about the objectification of people: the objectification of people after the industrial revolution is an indispensable cause. The fundamental reason why the materialized human spiritual world has reached a dead end - and this conclusion is pan-humanistic, and is a deep crisis of gender equality, because there is no destination for both sexes that is more different than the spiritual world.
Unfortunately, "Woman on the Shelf" obviously places the conflict between the sexes hastily, but forgets this important logic: the premise of objectifying others must be self-objectification. For example, the premise of men objectifying women must be to objectify themselves. I am the first to be objectified, and women are the same. That is to say, the reality of "I make money to support the family and you are as beautiful as a flower" in society is nothing more than: I objectify myself into a wallet, and you objectify yourself into a skin. As for all "living together", it is also It’s just the same logic behind the target change. Therefore, this story has nothing to do with gender. Regardless of the woman on the shelf or the man under the shelf, what it describes is at best a human crisis, but it is only a description. The above-mentioned shortcomings of
make the work "roaring", but it becomes a mute whisper: it is clumsily radical on women's issues, and stupidly silent on human issues -
it comes out Instead of telling a fable, it insists on utilitarian emphasis on telling a female fable: when it cannot explain women clearly, it prevaricates human nature, and when it cannot explain human nature clearly, it attaches itself to women. I think this also corresponds to the current abortion. Bill issue: When emphasizing women’s gender rights, the human rights of babies are emphasized. When emphasizing women’s human rights as human beings, the special nature of women’s reproduction is emphasized.
We must be wary of the female label becoming an element of sophistry and a narrow door for self-limitation, because it will in turn make feminism an anti-intellectual means. In this sense, the worst thing about "Roar" is that it is both absolutely politically correct on women's issues and, at the same time, absolutely insincere.
I think that the foundation of feminism is humanism. Women are primarily regarded as human beings to conduct plain human studies and writings. The arrival of this day also marks that women have also become a part of human nature. I regained my natural human weight and stood on the land of common sense.
As for "feminism", it is just a process and not a goal, just like a flag is just a flag and not a road. Our only purpose can only come from and return to "people", and anything that drives people away from the grassland of humanity is hallucinating.
As for this powerless "Roaring", I think: human strength must ultimately be returned to oneself by human wisdom, not just the wisdom of gender - that is to say, in four words: full of nature.
