[Gone With the Wind] Daughter Difficult

There is no doubt that Rhett is a person who respects women. To a certain extent, he has his own preference for appreciating women-for example, falling in love with Scarlett, who does not have the traditional femininity of this era, Scarlett dares to Dare to act, she is braver and stronger than ordinary women, she doesn't care about other people's eyes, as long as she lives well with the people she cares about, other people are not the ones she needs to talk to.This kind of maverick has attracted Rhett, and one can imagine how unique Rhett's sunshine and taste are.

Rhett cherishes women and their family. At the same time, he is not as pedantic as other men, nor does he think that women should be attached to men by nature.

Bonnie was the one who felt the most, because Rhett was willing to let her run their family business, and since she was a child, Rhett has always deliberately led her in this direction.

But at the same time, he is also a machismo.

With Rhett's wealth and status, he doesn't need his wife to show his face to make him even better. As long as Scarlett is willing, he can support her for the rest of his life.This is because subconsciously, he also takes it for granted.

What the subconscious mind thinks is right is the least likely to be shaken.

Bonnie knew that Rhett would not object in the end, and would even support it unconditionally, because Rhett would try her best to achieve what she wanted to do since she was a child.

But what she wants to do this time is a challenge to men's authority and status.She really didn't grasp Rhett's attitude.

Maybe they won't object, but they won't agree either, just like Scarlett's initial attitude.

Otherwise, it's the same as cutting first and then playing?

First set up a fund to assist women, and then invite Melanie and the friends in the Blue Alliance to make suggestions. This fund is their solid backing.

Melanie told her that in fact, many women's associations have similar characteristics, and their experience can help her accomplish such things at the beginning.

But Bonnie has reservations about this, because most of the officers of these women's associations are conservative and traditional women, and there are many religious forces involved in them. Although she built a girls' school, her ultimate goal is to serve women Equal rights, most of these traditional southern women regard their husbands as their gods. If they knew her ideas, they might not support her, or even obstruct her actions. Of course, she did not express this idea to Melanie. Just saying think again.

It's hard to start, even though Bonnie has decided to build a girls' school, but the exact charter is not settled at all, they are not going to build a women's shelter, but a girls' school.

The next thing she has to face is about site selection, educational disciplines, recruiting objects, and tuition fees. The most important thing is whether she can let women choose her school, To make them willing to try to make changes, these are the most difficult problems that will be encountered in the south where the thinking is still backward.

In the south where serfdom was once the world, the illiteracy rate of women was several times that of the north.The southerners own large tracts of fertile land and made their fortunes with plantations and agriculture. Although they cannot resist the industrial development in the north, they are self-sufficient. With the help of slaves, slave owners can live incomparably rich, so women are There is no need to have too much knowledge. The upper-middle-class white ethnic group will give their daughters a certain amount of education, such as Scarlett, but before the abolition of serfdom, the purpose of these education is only to enable them to manage their families. That's it.

After the Civil War, all their domestic black slaves became free blacks, which dealt a fatal blow to southern agriculture. Southerners also lost their land and property, and their homes were destroyed. Even after ten years of chaos and recuperation However, the economy of the south has lagged far behind that of the north. Although traditional women still maintain their modesty and pride, in this generation, they no longer have much capital to fight against others.

In fact, even before the Civil War between the North and the South, the level of basic education in the North was far higher than that in the South by several times. Most people in New England had the pioneering spirit of the Europeans who came to the American continent on the Mayflower. They generally Get a more enlightened education, and in the ten years before the Civil War, feminists had already become active.

In this day and age, most feminist contenders come from the more enlightened north.

Some people say that the Civil War was a war in which the United States blocked its national destiny. The success or failure of the war determined whether they would become an agricultural country or an industrial country in the future. In the end, industry won the final victory, and the United States also embarked on the road of the industrial empire world factory and began to dominate the world.From the perspective of emancipating black slaves, which has trans-epochal significance, the victorious north is naturally the party of justice, but the liberated black slaves have caused countless problems——

From the perspective of human rights, the human rights described in Rousseau's "Declaration of Human Rights" or the United States' "Declaration of Independence" belong only to men, so free blacks began to realize and fight for Their own political rights. Of course, they won it in the end. You must know that women in the North also made a lot of contributions to the liberation of black slaves during the Civil War. However, after the war, these women believed that black people won their elections. However, white women still do not have equal political and economic rights, which makes them feel that women do not get the respect and rights they deserve, which also contributed to the rise of the feminist movement.

Speaking of which, there were two largest women's rights campaigns in human history. The first time was from the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the [-]th century. This time the movement ended after women won the right to vote in the [-]s. But everyone thinks I also know that if the first women's rights movement really succeeded in winning rights and status for women, how could there be a second women's rights movement.

Fighting for women's suffrage is naturally a sign of the success of the women's rights movement this time, but speaking of it, fighting for the right to vote is actually a helpless move. When the women's rights movement first emerged, women Rights activists have targeted some morally corrupt men.They published in a magazine the fact that a prominent married priest had an affair with a woman, which caused an uproar. The pastor became cannon fodder for this matter, but the pastor The reputations of the women involved in the affair were also devastated, and women were targeted in the affair.

From this incident, men began to realize that feminists were challenging men's dominance, and men who controlled public opinion condemned these feminists one after another.Since then, feminists can only choose things that will not discredit women, and suffrage itself is neutral, and fighting for suffrage will not discredit women.

But it's just the right to vote that women fought for 30 years because these white women convinced men that they had the knowledge that their dominance would not be shaken by black people who could vote, This makes men willing to loosen up and let women have the right to vote-that is to say, if men do not feel that their status is threatened, they will not give up their rights and share a piece of cake with women.

In any case, allowing women to have the right to vote is really the first step in the true sense of equal rights for women. Of course, there are various constitutional amendments to marriage laws and divorce laws, as well as amendments or additions to various laws to protect women.

The situation of educated women in the north is so difficult, let alone the south with a lower education level.

Asking them to make changes is definitely more difficult than running a company.

In fact, even with the rise of women's rights, women have never really been given the same status and dignity as men, let alone opportunities.

In the history of women’s rights development in the United States, in order to make women feel respected, men once created a word to praise women’s contributions to the family—“women’s field” to determine women’s status and importance .

They praise women because women bear children for them behind their backs, allowing them to go out and fight without any worries.It sounds actually more ridiculous than imagined. Women are indeed respected to a certain extent, but they are completely restricted within the framework of the family. When only the family is left to realize their self-worth, they still have no fair rights and can only rely on Live for men, this kind of "respect" is nothing but a hypocritical tool to control women under absolute patriarchy.

The south is still in this state. Women think that the family is their center of gravity, and rights beyond the family are something out of the ordinary.

And because of the cruelty of the war, people in the south are unwilling to contact the development of the north. Their vision has made them framed in the tradition of the south, forming a vicious circle.

Why do women make things difficult for women, but it is precisely women who make things difficult for women the most, and this is the most difficult part of the whole thing.

Thinking of the future made Bonnie's head dizzy.

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In the end, Bonnie didn't play first, and she hoped that Rhett could really support her in doing this.

She also wrote a letter to Xiaobo—according to the plan, Xiaobo will not come back for at least two months, so this will also be her last letter to Vienna, but it is inevitable that Xiaobo misses the letter, She also expedited it to ensure that Xiaobo could receive her letter.

In the letter, I roughly wrote what I wanted to do—just talking about it, and exchanging letters in person is the best guarantee for the two to maintain the exchange of ideas, and it is also the basis of their relationship. These letters are not just about family and interesting things. The world is far and wide, chatting, the two understand each other's feelings, this is even though they are intermittently separated on the other side of the Atlantic, they do not feel a gap between each other, but their emotions are more intimate.

In fact, Bonnie is very much looking forward to how Xiaobo will view this matter, will he support it, or will he support it?Based on what she knew about Xiaobo, her boyfriend would definitely not object.

In the following time, Bonnie became even busier.

On the one hand, she needs to deal with the company's affairs. They need to integrate the resources they have already bought, suppress the price of gold, increase the status of the dollar, and ensure the appreciation of the assets she owns.

On the other hand, she is starting a proposal for a girls' school.

While starting to make the proposal, Bonnie sent Louise a new task-to ask Louise to do some research.Without investigation, there is no right to speak. The main purpose of these investigations is to establish a girls’ school for basic data collection. In fact, the site selection and funding are not a problem for her. The problem is that she is not willing to make the girls’ school a Shelter, which defeats her original intention.

And in this matter, the more investigations in the early stage, the more adequate their preparations, the more people they can persuade to help them, and try to reduce unnecessary resistance, so that they can concentrate on fighting with those who are still in a dominant position in the future. Men fight and fight for women's rights, instead of being forever confined within the framework of the family, without basic respect and rights.

Immediately after the second step, Bonnie began to attract more women in a targeted and planned way. First of all, the women in the family, including Scarlett, Melanie, Ella and Christine, she did not dare to speak to the black woman. Mom said.Although Mama Hei is black, she takes protecting the interests of the O'Hara family as her own.As a loyal supporter and inheritor of Scarlett's mother Ellen, if given the opportunity, Hei Mama can read in the ears of Scarlett and Bonnie how many rules and regulations they have committed in a day, and how to correct them own "problems".Scarlett herself sneered at this, and told them by precepts and deeds that those outdated etiquettes can be obeyed if they don’t want to. Fortunately, Wade is teaching his younger brothers and sisters how to distinguish right from wrong and be moral. It doesn't look so different - at least they have done most of the surface manners.

Of course, there is another man - her dear brother Kevin, who was instilled in her with "women's rights" since she was a child.

Kevin's performance at that time was like this: "Oh, a girls' school is going to be established, I heard that the north..." He glanced at Scarlett and Melanie, and then said, "I heard that there are several girls' schools in the north... Unlike our school, no one even goes to elementary school."

"Where did you hear that?" Although his family always emphasized that women had a higher status, they never seemed to tell him about the education system in the north.

Kevin scratched his head and looked a little confused, "Mom and Dad, Aunt Lani and Uncle Ashley seem to have said that when they hired Christine and me to be tutors."

Melanie and Scarlett glanced at each other, did they talk about it?

However, the two of them soon did not bother with the issues that they had forgotten. Melanie said: "I contacted experienced officers in several groups, and they were all very interested in the plan led by the Butler family. , and said that if you need any help, you can find them. They are all people I know very well, and their character and integrity can be trusted, so you can rest assured." Melanie was also very careful when choosing people Being cautious, especially after Bonnie told her about her ultimate goal later, made it impossible for her to look at this matter from a more cautious perspective.

Scarlett looked at Bonnie, and finally said: "Those people are those who have been screened by Melanie and will not leak the news. If you are worried, you can be more skillful when asking, and don't tell them too much things."

Knowing that Scarlett really wanted to help her, Bonnie was relieved.

In fact, Scarlett does not necessarily want women to have equal rights, but in her opinion, this matter is probably not worth the loss, and if it is not done well, she will push herself to the opposite side of men, because she thinks it is unrealistic and a waste of effort .

Since Bonnie and Melanie were both working hard on this matter, how could she not support it, anyway, she didn't like those stinky men being so arrogant.

Ella stayed up late yesterday to rush to make a piece of clothing. At this time, there was a deep tiredness in her brows and eyes.

She originally planned to go to bed after breakfast, but she didn't expect that Bonnie would not go to the company, and Melanie also brought Christine. Bonnie also solemnly told them that she had something to say, so she also stayed.

After listening to Bonnie's plan in general, Ella clenched her fist, her amber pupils were shining brightly, and she looked at Bonnie intently: "Is there anything I can do to help?"

Christine raised her hand: "There's me, and me. Although I'm young, I can also perform talents to raise money. Teacher John also said that my violin has improved rapidly."

Kevin propped his chin, and rarely said depressedly: "Then what can I do?"

"It's good that you support me," Bonnie touched Kevin's head, which felt good, and said deliberately old-fashioned: "And Christine, I set up a fund, and the pre-preparation funds are sufficient."

"But have you ever thought that it is not enough for you to pay, if you want to get the support of other people, you must let them have a sense of participation and a sense of mission," Scarlett teased her quilt With black curly hair combed into a bun, he reminded seemingly casually: "It's one thing to have enough money. It's also important to make them realize that this career belongs to them. It doesn't matter how much. The important thing is that you can't be independent." bear."

"Thank you, Mom," Bonnie said sincerely.

Even Melanie looked at her with kind and narrow eyes. Scarlett's face was stained with a rouge-like blush, extending from her ears to her slender neck. She turned her head and pretended that the matter had nothing to do with her. .

"Ella," Bonnie turned her head and said seriously, "It's time for us American Blue Alliance to go out."

Aila understood in seconds: "You want to bring them together?"

"No one is better suited to help women than them." Bonnie nodded towards Ella.

The next day, Bonnie and Ella summoned all members of American Blue Alliance.

Their regular meeting days are on weekends, but unconventional gatherings like this have attracted more people's attention.

Except for a few members who are not in Atlanta and two members who are studying in Europe, everyone else has arrived.

Bonnie's purpose is to get them to participate together. Originally, she was preparing an inspiring speech, but thinking about it, such an aggressive style is not the usual style of their American Blue League. They have always followed the route of gentle confrontation (ethics), Speeches that make people listen to excitement are more suitable for the general public, and it may have the opposite effect for them.

"Establish a girls' school?"

Catherine is the oldest member among them. She is already engaged and will get married in half a year. She has been preparing for the wedding recently, but as soon as she heard that the American Blue Alliance was assembled, she came without saying a word. When she arrived, Ella directly I gave her an elegant and luxurious white wedding dress that caught everyone's attention. The mermaid skirt and slim design perfectly combined her advantages with her dreams. Such care made her unable to bear it. Nose sour, eyes red.Until Bonnie changed the subject and started to get down to business, her emotions had not completely stabilized, and there was a hint of vibrato when she spoke.

For most of the members here, building a school is not too difficult a problem. In fact, there is no need for such a grand event. Could it be that there are other purposes?

"Well, a girls' school is not my ultimate goal. I hope that in the future women will have the same status, rights and opportunities as men. Establishing a girls' school is just my initial idea, which aims to help more Disadvantaged female groups, this is what I want to do for a long time in the future," Bonnie lowered her eyes, still a little uneasy in her heart, "When I was thinking about this plan, I immediately thought of my sisters."

"Is it what I thought?"

"Equal status, potential, and opportunity as men?"

"I remember that we seemed to have discussed this issue before. Many things men can do, we women can also do, such as running a shop. It is a matter of course for men to be in power, but women will be seen as deviant."

"There are also church clerics, why are only men not to offend God, and the Virgin Mary is also a woman, are they not afraid to offend the Virgin?"

"There are also women who are not allowed to wear pants and only allow horses to ride sideways. They know how dangerous sideriding is for women..."

Bonnie raised her hand: "I think I really have a say in this. I was a victim of side riding, and I managed to survive."

"Pfft, no one dares to say anything about Bonnie wearing pants. Is this a blessing in disguise—"

"Her riding posture is also very handsome. I want to learn it, but my mother will definitely scold me if she sees it..."

"Also, when I express my views on politics, my dad will say what girls are talking about politics..."

"My dad is like that too..."

"And I……"

……

Everyone chattered about the inequality between men and women. Because of the large number of people, the discussion lasted almost four hours. They didn't even eat lunch until afternoon tea was available at two o'clock. Only then stopped.

Those who dare not say or cannot say normally can only speak freely here.

After the big discussion is over, everyone has almost a general concept of women's equal rights. Usually, everyone is not aware of it, but today, everyone is wondering whether they have really received fair treatment and basic respect. They all asked for Bonnie's help.

This is definitely a good start for Bonnie.