What would the world be like if women "punch" won? 丨Sci-Fi Fans

Whether you usually pay attention to it or not, you have to admit that the gender antagonism on the Internet is already incompatible.

On Weibo, Douban, and Hupu, hatred of the opposite sex has intensified. The reason is that social networking sites are unavoidably suspected of "causing war" for traffic, but the real contradictions are also visible to the naked eye.

This phenomenon was ridiculed by netizens as "boxing".

Specific phenomena need not be discussed. Today, I just want to use science fiction film and television to talk about the successful examples of "boxing". Needless to say, men can open a history book and turn over three thousand years. This article focuses on women: what will the future look like if women "punch" win?

If you don't think about winning, think about losing first. Before talking about women being the boss, it is better to think in reverse. The sci-fi film "Man's World" in the 1980s discussed this issue in detail. This is a domestic sci-fi film. Its brain hole and deep reflection are far more powerful than the current sci-fi works, and its roar is enough to deafening.

Compared with the works mentioned later, "The World of Men" is a well-deserved "moderate". In the early 1980s, almost every family wanted to have a boy because family planning had just been implemented. Scientists have worked tirelessly to develop a chromosome separation procedure that is enough to give a pregnant woman a 99 percent chance of having a boy.

Ironically, even though the odds were so high, Big A's wife gave birth to a daughter that year. In a fit of rage, Big A threw his daughter into the wilderness. Over time, there are fewer and fewer girls in the world. When those newborns grow up, the faces of young girls are hardly seen in society. Do you want to engage in "boyfriend love"?

So, the boys who didn't want to be monks embarked on the road of finding young girls. Where there is a beautiful sister, where is my hometown. After untold hardships, they finally came to the "Revitalizing Women's Center Fortress". It turned out that young women built their own "Xiliang Women's Country" and built this place into a "Female Utopia".

In this film, war never occurs. Even some fierce conflicts, serious points of view, are told in an absurd way. It is not a critical work, but more like a burlesque.

It has the idea of ​​ridiculing patriarchy, but it is more of the boring "no women can't reproduce". Men go to great lengths to find women, but only for their own selfish desires. Looking at it with the current eyes, some people may feel that the three views are not right. After all, women aren't just fertility machines. But it's always about something.

A little more intense is the youth comedy "Girls Want Revolution" that Netflix launched this year.

Judging from the title, this work seems to have reached some kind of wonderful confrontation with the previous one. Of course, although it is also a comedy, it explores more in-depth and contemporary issues than "The World of Men".

The story of the film takes place in a high school campus in the United States, which is full of pure "male hegemony". For the female high school students in this school, being scrutinized, discriminated against, and bullied are the norm. Every year, the school has rankings such as "best boobs", "biggest hips" and "most wanting to sleep", which is extremely humiliating.

What's more, it is the oppression of women by women. The principal of the school is obviously a woman, but condone male students all kinds of physical accusations of the opposite sex, and even rape cases occurred in serious cases. Endured again and again, the angry heroine decided to fight back. Posting fliers, ganging up, marching, speaking publicly, the little man threw a punch against the patriarchy.

The end result is also reassuring. Under the call of this group of idealistic little girls, the male students realized their mistakes and would no longer point fingers at their female classmates. Strictly speaking, this is a pure cool movie. However, in today's high-pressure public opinion atmosphere, "politically correct" films are also worth learning from.

Compared with last year's "Mrs. America" ​​starring Cate Blanchett, it is undoubtedly more simple and crude. Weighing the pros and cons, the matter of both sides, adults will consider, for this group of high school students, it is enough to bury their heads.

The most interesting part of this movie is that it creates an image of an Asian boy who cares about the heroine.

When watching a movie, I always think of a sentence in "An Analysis of China's Social Classes", "Who is our enemy? Who is our friend? This question is the first question of the revolution." The same is true of the land revolution, and the same is true of the women's revolution. In fact, if you really want to create a revolution for girls, uniting friends against enemies is the primary task.

The clever heroine does just that. There are many normal men in the school who are unwilling to bully their classmates. Only when they are included in the category of "comrades" and united can they form an effective force against the evil forces in the school.

As a digression, Li Yinhe divides the oppression of women in society into two aspects: capital oppression and heterosexual oppression. The former only focuses on profit-making, such as recruitment discrimination; the latter is the phenomenon shown in the film. However, in this film, the issue of class and capital is not discussed at all, and the contradiction is only aimed at the relationship between the sexes. This is the biggest problem.

It seems that in the impression of many people, women are much more peaceful than men. The scholar Francis Fukuyama, author of "The Origins of Political Order," believes that "a true motherhood world is less aggressive, and is more about compromise and cooperation than our own." Stephen Pink, who is popular at home, also It was mentioned that most of the military generals and commanders in history were men, "in the long river of history, women have always been a force of peace".

Is this really true? The French sci-fi film "Jackie of the Daughter Country" probably wouldn't agree. This is perhaps the most aptly titled film, where women triumph over men and turn them into tethered slaves.

In the Buben People's Republic, women are born with great power. And what about men? Wear a collar at all times and stay home to take care of the children. Jackie, who has just come of age, has a dream similar to that of most male compatriots - to marry the biggest rich woman in the country, that is, Princess Culunella. The story unfolds based on this.

If "Girls Want Revolution" talks about the discrimination of men against women; then, "Jackie in Daughter Country" talks about the humor after the reversal. The first half of the movie is like a cult movie.

Through the character of Jackie, the audience can see the miserable world of the men of the cloth. Frequently being lewd, almost raped, always making dirty jokes about him... In a way, Jackie is worse off than Indian women.

This plot is a bit like the comedy "Men Need Self-Love" directed by Eleanor Bouchard. The film tells the story of a hooligan who harassed women. After an accident, he fell into a coma. After waking up, he found himself in a world dominated by women and had to accept social assimilation. There, "women's discipline" reversed course.

However, compared to "Jackie in Daughter's Country", "Men Must Love Oneself" seems to be light fun. Puberty boys buy briefs, hairy men reluctantly remove their hair, and fathers always force their sons to marry, which will at most make you smile. At least here, love is free, marriage is voluntary, and male and female love is unrestricted.

But in Buben, in a world dominated by women, marriage is mandatory. At marriageable age, everyone must get married. If you don't get married, it's easy for people to wander the streets, and it's easy to cause trouble after a long time. Only marriage can ensure social stability. It's a bit like a feudal society. The Han Dynasty stipulated that "Women from fifteen to thirty years old do not marry, but five counts". In the two Jin Dynasty, if the marriageable woman did not marry, the government would force the marriage.

In fact, the so-called female domination of the world is just a false lie. In Buben, only one person has the final say, and that is the dictator. This is a true totalitarian society, where men are slaves and women are "slaves", just one kneeling and one standing. In this case, is there any meaning to the conflict between the sexes?

Wang Xiaobo wrote a set of books called "Doubt Trilogy". In the book he outlines the world of dictators, ignorant, fun, and sexless. In that chaotic world, independent thinking is not allowed, popularization of knowledge is not allowed, and sexual behavior for self-entertainment is not allowed. The only purpose of mating is to reproduce. It's like "Utopia". The question is, who would embrace such a utopia? It's too boring to "punch" to win such a world.

The "Iron Curtain Sex History" released in Poland in 1984 is undoubtedly the most naked one of the sci-fi films with the theme of "Women Be the Boss". As the title suggests, the film is a true dystopian sex comedy.

The story takes place at the end of the last century, when two volunteers who voluntarily devoted themselves to science were placed in an airtight container and frozen for three years. Unexpectedly, as soon as the experiment started, the "Three Wars" broke out. When they wake up, it will be fifty years later. The earth is no longer habitable due to nuclear pollution, males are extinct, and females are forced to live in caves 300 meters underground...

The most interesting part of the film is the scene of the trial assembly.

The two men chanted, "Men are useful, we give you flowers, we love you, women are not complete without men." The congresswoman dismissed, "The world is a better place without men, no more wars and venereal diseases. ."

Again, "Many men have advanced the development of history, and there have been many great male scientists in history." "Who?" "Copernicus, Einstein..." "They are all women." After a few words, the absurdity suddenly became apparent. .

Science fiction films are science fiction films after all, based on hypothetical existence. But these wonderful stories can also be heard. We must break the shackles of patriarchy, but there is no need to hate men. Jackie's world is too absurd, turning Copernicus into a woman actually looks down on her fellow females. And try hard.