Brand Master [Comprehensive Yingmei]

Sharlto, who is well-known in the advertising industry, was sent to the VIP ward of Gotham Central Hospital. It is not known whether it was intentional or unintentional. A female leader of a depraved neighborhood happened to live next door to him.

Along with the news of his hospitalization, the scandalous news about Sharlto's "surprisingly small" thing spread, which was quickly regarded as a classic after-dinner joke by the entire company and some industry insiders.

Stimulated by this, Sharlto was greatly stimulated mentally. He changed his previous good temper and became sensitive and irritable. From time to time, he nervously yelled at women, Vera and the group of mutant girls.

...Then he was beaten by someone arranged by the annoying female boss next door.

The Gotham gangsters are much more disrespectful than the mutant children. These people are professional thugs, of course they know how to make Sharlto cry and cry, so shut up.

Clark: ...Batman definitely did it on purpose!

After X Academy heard the news, they sent special teachers to take care of the girls like Leila and Cynthia. Vera originally thought that the people who came would be Cyclops or Storm, who had frequent external activities, but she didn't expect that the people who came would be... Phoenix Girl Jean Gray.

After meeting again after several months, Jean still doesn't want to get close to Batman-her abilities are not stable yet, and she doesn't want to sense a man's past at all.

However, she acted cautiously towards Vera as if she wanted to get close but dared not touch her.

Vera didn't have any feelings for Qin - she looked at Qin who was about the same age as herself, but she actually felt like looking at a child.

This time, she came here in a hurry after suspending her previous work, and stayed up all night for three or four consecutive days. Even if she herself was a little dizzy, she had a faint headache.

Telling Clark to buy aspirin, Vera thought for a while, and simply sorted out a copy of the status quo data of the advertising industry, and showed the real advertising industry to this group of students who were misled by Sharlto.

She called Qin over and gave a serious workplace lesson to the intern girls, correcting the wrong ideas that Sharlto had instilled in them one by one.

Admittedly, what Sharlto calls sexism in the advertising industry is widespread.

The work intensity of advertisers is extremely high. Not only do they have to face unreasonable overnight overtime, but they also have to bear great psychological pressure. Under such pressure, these advertisers are also required to have endless creativity and inspiration-this is very important for It is difficult for women who need to take care of the family, conceive and have children.

Advertising companies are unwilling to give important positions to women. The industry assumes that women are in auxiliary positions such as customer service and secretaries, which is convenient for them to find a man in the company to marry.

Take a walk on Madison Avenue and you will find that the people who commute here are basically handsome men in suits and leather shoes-40 years old, white, gentleman, and well-educated, which is the default in the industry Advertising agency executive stereotype.

This calm and objective summary poured over the heads of several girls like a basin of ice water, their faces turned gray almost instantly, their eyes widened in disbelief, extremely frustrated:

"In other words, what Sharlto said...is true?"

"Half of it is true, the other half... depends on the situation."

Vera replied calmly.

"Look, look at the situation, you mean...?"

"Doesn't that mean that's not the case at all?"

Seeing a few girls looking up with renewed hope, their beautiful and clear eyes were as bright as morning stars, Vera smiled slightly:

"Aren't I already standing here?"

She is the youngest creative director of Sterling Cooper Company over the years. She is the fastest rising advertising person on Madison Avenue. She is an advertising madman who can always create ideas and turn these ideas and inspirations into wealth.

She has created countless miracles with her own hands, and she has defeated everyone with her performance and plans in an open and aboveboard manner. She is Vera Senna, and she...is a woman.

Pale and slender fingers tapped the podium lightly, and Vera stared condescendingly at the group of girls under the stage, and said softly and word by word:

"I'll wait for you to catch up."

Under the high platform, a woman in a black windbreaker stood tall, as awe-inspiring as a pine tree, and as warm as a gurgling water.

Her spine is straight, one hand is leisurely in the coat pocket, her lower jaw is slightly raised, her eyes are half-closed, lazy and elegant.

But this kind of Vera, such an understatement, made all the young girls present clenched their fists and their hearts thumped, and felt a hot flame burst out from their hearts!

To catch up with her, to be her, to walk with her - if she can do it, why can't they?

Looking at Vera on the stage, the girls instantly ignited infinite courage and ambition, just like Icarus flying to the sun, and infinite hope was born in the endless ambition, and the eternal hope slowly bloomed in the fire. A flower that does not decay.

They are not weak.

Why can't they?

……

"Extrinsic performance of idols."

Afterwards, Clarke commented on it like this.

Thanks to Vera, the girls burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm and ambition in an instant, worked hard, and their progress obviously surpassed that of the boys in the same period.

Because of Sharlto's misleading courses before, the girls were all disheartened. They always felt that their future was bleak and busy, and they didn't know what to do.

But now, because of the existence of Vera herself, her thinking has been completely changed. The girls directly regard Vera as an idol in the workplace, and have a fanatical pursuit and admiration for Vera.

——Vera Senna has such a charm. She can break through the "ceiling" of the workplace through her outstanding ability, making people involuntarily yearn for her, and can't help but want to get close to her and walk towards her.

Thinking that the self more than a year ago was basically the same as this group of mutant fans, Clark touched his nose, feeling helpless and funny, his whole heart softened in a mess.

"Because they need such a person to guide them forward."

Vera didn't take it seriously, she glanced at Superman and asked lightly,

"What do you think I'm trying to make the Justice League a brand that symbolizes justice?"

She, and they, are all doing the same thing.

Even if you are as strong as a superman, it is impossible to save everyone on this earth. There are various dangers in this world every second, murder, robbery, theft, cheating... These behaviors happen all the time, superheroes are It is impossible to save the world with superpowers alone.

Batman himself sees this most clearly. He is in Gotham, and he has always been in such powerlessness—even though he uses "Batman" to fight crime day after day. It won't stop there either.

He knows this better than anyone else, so he has been using fear to deter the city from a long time ago.

As for Vera, from the very beginning when she built the Zhenglian brand, the countless public relations and publicity, whether it is "Batman He's Bad and Sweet" or "Hamster Intensive Breeding Project", are actually closely related to the belief in justice.

Make Chaoying an idol, let Chaoying use different images to describe the same truth together - those who follow them will naturally follow the belief of the Justice League.

Vera believes that for this world, the symbolic meaning of the Justice League is far more important than their actions themselves.

From this perspective, it is not her, let alone men like Superman and Batman, who want to solve the problem of "sex discrimination" that is tacitly accepted in the current advertising industry, and even in the entire American workplace.

To put it bluntly, in a cruel workplace, people do not despise women, but exclude the weak. Most people just mistakenly equate "female" and "weak".

Similarly, for many men who are not capable enough, especially those who have lost to Vera, people will also despise and ridicule them as "not even a woman", which is actually the same sexism.

If we want to find a perspective to solve this problem, we must have a pioneer who stands up and speaks out bravely. Moreover, this pioneer is important enough, has enough confidence and the right to speak, in order to achieve this goal.

To be able to have this confidence and be strong enough... only the princess of Paradise Island can do it.

"You've been planning this for a long time."

Hearing this, Bruce hit the nail on the head, "So you let Diana go to West Point."

...what the hell?

People who don't know much about West Point Military Academy are at a loss, but Hal, who knows a little about it, turns pale with shock:

"—Wait! You let Diana go to West Point by herself??"

After receiving an affirmative answer, the corner of Hal's mouth twitched, as if he saw endless troubles in the future:

"You...you really dare to do this?"

Seeing that Shazam and the others were still a little confused, Hal scratched the back of his head and said with a headache:

"You may not know if you haven't been in the army... But West Point Military Academy may be a huge nightmare for women."

In fact, the biggest discrimination against women in the United States is not the advertising industry or the entertainment industry, but the military.

As Vera described, almost everyone in the U.S. military generally believes that "women are weak" and "female soldiers don't need to exist."

From military academies to various military bases, all soldiers basically have this idea, and the contempt for women is deeply rooted.

When Hal was a test pilot, one of his colleagues came out of West Point Military Academy, so he had a good understanding of the internal situation of West Point Military Academy.

"how to say……"

Hal hesitated to explain,

"As far as I know, the West Point Military Academy is generally not optimistic about female officers. From the instructors to the instructors, they are extremely resistant to the appearance of female students. They don't believe in or agree with the abilities of female soldiers. The female students who have come out of West Point Military Academy are also Most were assigned clerical jobs."

To put it bluntly, it is machismo at work.

They don't trust women's combat ability at all, they don't approve of women joining the army, and they don't want to teach female students.

But for the reputation of the army and the so-called "gender equality", they pretended to respect women and welcome female soldiers, recruited these passionate girls into military academies, and assigned them all to unimportant civilian jobs.

That's what West Point...and the entire U.S. military is doing right now.

"That's why Diana felt it for herself."

Willa replied calmly. She was wearing a thick blanket and swallowed two aspirin under Clark's slightly worried eyes.

The military is obviously looking at what people order. Putting aside Superman and Batman, they insist on inviting Diana, obviously because they want to give the only woman in the Justice League a blow.

Their contempt for women was already deeply ingrained. Even if they knew that Diana had extremely powerful combat capabilities, they didn't care about it.

And they probably thought Diana was the best deal.

——read it as arrogance, and write it as death.

Just imagining what the outspoken Diana would do to those old guys makes Hal gloat:

"Oh, poor generals, these old guys have probably never seen a woman's anger."

As soon as the words were finished, there was a faint sight from the other end of the sofa. Hal felt cold all over, glanced at Vera on the other side of the sofa, and shut up.

"Is there really no problem?"

Barry was worried. He glanced at the steel frame and signaled him to pay more attention to the movement at West Point Military Academy before asking Vera,

"With Diana's character...wouldn't she really conflict with military academy personnel?"

"Diana promised me to keep my cool - and when it was a promise, she kept it."

Vera was very calm.

She is not only calm, but also full of confidence: anyway, with her here, even if Diana really did something, she still has a way to make the military feel wronged.

"Whatever she wants to do."

At this moment, Vera behaved like a bear parent of a bear child. She spread her arms and said confidently: "As long as she is willing."

The six boys present: "..."

Vera, this is too... partial, isn't it?

For Diana, it is "offend anyone as she pleases", if she doesn't want to participate in the publicity, she won't participate, if she doesn't want to become a scandal object, she will find another way, and spoil her to the bone.

To them, it is "you go up for my old lady", "you endorse my old lady", "you give my old lady a smile for the camera"... Do you want to be treated so differently! ?

Are you sexist, do you know that? ! !

The neglected boys stood under the lemon tree together, eating lemons and crying against the wind:

When can we get rid of the status of tool people in Vera Senna's heart?

The entire Zhenglian base was suddenly enveloped in a sour atmosphere. Hal, who had been warned by Vera just now, was full of anger, and was about to order a lemon meal. opened his eyes.

"Excuse me, guys. We've got a problem."

The half-human, half-mechanical cyborg seldom showed helplessness. He glanced at the crow's mouth and said expressionlessly:

"...Diana just beat up all the generals and officers at West Point."

Beat up all the generals and officers.

All generals and officers.

Beaten up.

Zhenglianzhong: "..."

Vera: "......"

As expected of you!

Clark and Bruce both stood up at the same time, Hal let out a "ha", Barry's head was full of black lines, everyone acted in tacit understanding while being speechless, no one said anything, basically they were a little bit concerned about Diana's impulsive behavior premonition.

Vera sighed secretly, and then stood up from the sofa.

She originally wanted to stop Barry and let him take her to West Point Military Academy first, but the moment she stood up, she suddenly lost the ability to speak.

Something exploded in her brain, destroying all her nerves in an instant.

From the head to the neck, from the cold fingertips to the feet wearing thick wool socks, those touches, the temperature, the blood flowing in the body... seemed to stop suddenly.

As if inside a frozen body, there was only one heart beating crazily.

Bang bang, bang bang.

She opened her eyes, but there was darkness in front of her eyes.

There were obviously rustling voices in the surroundings, but they were covered by explosive tinnitus.

The heartbeat was getting louder and louder.

Willa opened her eyes, and tried her best to get a blurred vision, and what met her was Clark's terrified face.

My heart beat faster, as if it was about to jump out of my chest.

bang bang.

bang bang.

It was quiet.

The sharp tinnitus and the heartbeat stopped at the same time, and she heard someone calling her name tremblingly in her ear.

"—Vera!"

"No, no... Vera, look at me, Vera!"

She opened her eyes, but completely lost consciousness.