[Phantom of the Opera] Devil's Beauty

This is a newspaper founded by a women's club in Paris, called "Women's Voice", which mainly publishes the speeches of feminists from all over the world. Article by Gerrit Fowler.The editor advocates that all women should be independent and try their best to get rid of the restraint of the patriarchal society.

Because the ideas are too divorced from social reality, the sales volume of the newspaper is not high, but it is deeply sought after by some highly educated women, and many feminists even read the remarks on it as the truth.

Right now, this "truth" is attacking every word and deed of Blanche.The author directly classifies Blanche as a typical product of a patriarchal society. Her original words are as follows:

We can't blame her for thinking and acting because she doesn't know it's wrong.She was a good man, to be sure, for she gave orphans and widows a place to live; but a good man of generosity--she knew how to radiate her charms and find a rich With a man as her backing, she gained the reputation of being kind and charitable without spending a penny.

At the end of the article, the author concluded provocatively: In today’s society, there are still many such women. They are moths who are “ignorant, lazy, and lacking a sense of responsibility” in Wollstoneclough’s mouth. They are born with only one goal, which is Find a man who can support himself, there is no other ideal except that.The author believes that any thoughtful and conscious woman should stay away from this kind of person, otherwise, once assimilated, women will never have the opportunity to launch a "women's revolution".

The author of this article is a well-known female writer who has published a critically acclaimed Gothic novel.In the novel, the heroine is beautiful and wise, but a wealthy but cruel bully tries to take away her precious virginity.After tens of thousands of words of dealing and fighting, the heroine finally escaped from the hands of the bully, married a handsome viscount, and lived a happy life.This book is welcomed by many housewives. In their eyes, resisting bullies is equivalent to resisting patriarchy, and the ending of marrying the Viscount is the reward for the heroine's courage to fight against patriarchy.

This female writer has a lot of fans. The day after the newspaper was published, Bai Lanzhi received all kinds of letters, some insulting and cursing her, and some earnestly persuading her to be an independent woman. What's more, Some people carried red paint buckets in the middle of the night and wrote "Hypocrite" in blood red on the walls of the small theater.

Perhaps it is because feminists are a minority group, and their influence is far less powerful than that of Audrey, so public opinion has not completely turned towards them.There was a voice of support in the letter, telling Blanche not to be afraid, saying that the female writer was an old widow who couldn't get married, and she liked to criticize her young and beautiful girl who liked men.

Bai Lanzhi looked a little dumbfounded. In fact, I can’t blame the female writer for misunderstanding her. Although these days, she is indeed helping those orphans and widows with her own money, but who would have thought that Eric would suddenly publish that article The statement stated that the head of the secular female monastery was taken away.In this way, although the public no longer explored the source of the secular female monastery's annual expenditure of 10000 francs, they believed that she was a woman who loved vanity—it was clearly a monastery funded by Mr. OG, but her reputation was covered by her. Taking over the past, what is it if it is not vanity?

Fortunately, the feminists were not as rampant and extreme as Audrey's fans back then, and Blanche's normal life was not affected.Just when she was eating, sleeping, and worrying about love, an elegant and delicate golden invitation card was delivered to her.

After disappearing for so many days, Odell finally returned.

She is going to hold a solo recital at the Paris Opera House to apologize to Blanche and all the women she has misunderstood.

She wants to publicly repent of her narrow and ignorant thinking.

Except for Bai Lanzhi, all the famous scholars who participated in that salon received this invitation card.For a while, Blanche's reputation became more subtle.

During this period of time, her reputation has been declining. Although Odile's return has nothing to do with her declining reputation, it has saved Odile a lot of lost popularity.People's memory is short, let alone the memory of the masses. Originally, most people follow others' sayings and are not obsessed with the truth of the matter itself.Anyway, whether it's Audrey or Blanche, to them, they are just strangers, just a conversation piece.Whether Bai Lanzhi is a feminist or not, or how Odell is, has nothing to do with them.

When others said that Blanche was a hypocrite, they echoed it in order to break into the conversation and appear concerned about current affairs.As for the impact of these "echoes" on Bai Lanzhi, it was not within their scope of consideration.

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In the past few days, Beth looked at the letters that piled up more and more, and was almost dying of anxiety.

She didn't understand why all the winds changed overnight, and Bai Lanzhi became a villain that everyone shouted and beat, because the money that funded the secular nunnery was not her own?The funniest thing is that the same group of people scolded her for being too extravagant and wasting 10000 francs for charity a few days ago.If you want to talk about hypocrisy, aren't those people who scolded her hypocritical?Speaking of hypocrisy, have all these people who scolded her helped even one poor person?

Beth wished she could go out on the street and scold those who slandered and insulted Bai Lanzhi, and she also wanted to shake Bai Lanzhi by the shoulders, urging her to issue a statement to clarify those bad rumors.

Bai Lanzhi got a headache from her urging: "It's not the time yet."

Beth was so anxious that she could hang the kettle on her mouth: "Then when is the time? That Mr. OG is really stupid, how can he say that he funded you at this time, causing you to be scolded by so many people. If I were you, I would say I borrowed money from you."

Bai Lanzhi smoothed her pout with one finger, and couldn't help laughing: "No matter what he says, I will be scolded."

"why?"

"Because those who scold me are not human at all."

Beth was stunned: "Not a person? What is that? A ghost?"

"What are you thinking about?" Bai Lanzhi laughed, "Someone is deliberately guiding public opinion behind the scenes." Recalling the last time when she was attacked by rumors, although it was only more than ten days past, it was as far away as what happened a few years ago. She still treats that person's feelings cautiously with admiration, "It's okay, this matter will be settled in two days."

I just don't know if Eric will be invited to Odile's solo recital two days later.Last time she was slapped so badly by Eric, she probably didn't dare to invite him...