After rebirth, she first killed the book thief, and she was busy writing articles to save people

Chapter 353 Women who are more easily ignored

Jiang Baige is ready to focus on writing a new article.

This is how she solves the problem.

Apart from this, she had no other skills. The reason why she was used by Ge Hongjian and Lu Tian's agents was because she was a small author and had no say.

Of course, even if she becomes a great author, she may still not be able to compete with capital.

But talking will be more effective than it is now.

Besides, when she has enough money, she can do something else...

For example, like Zhao Bi, he opened a gym for women, bought women's novels, found women to act, and filmed TV series for women.

Although she also makes money as a woman.

But it is better than those men who make money from women, look down on women, and stab women in the back.

Jiang Baige knew very well that feminism was being treated as a hot business.

Even a middle-aged man like Lao Ge, who can't even clearly explain what feminism is, wants to get a piece of the pie, and use it to make a male star famous.

If that’s the case, why can’t women be allowed to earn the money?

At least they can provide jobs for more women, set life examples for more women, and tell more girls:

The destiny of a girl when she grows up is not to get married or to have a family. Marriage is not an option, and neither are love, sex, or men.

They can be there, but they can only add icing on the cake, not take over the job.

We should have more choices: constantly exploring our true desires, constantly trying to do what we really want to do, and living like a real person rather than just a "woman expected by a man". This is what is truly important and worthwhile in this life.

Instead of giving a group of men another way to eat women.

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Writing - in fact, her job - can help Jiang Baige break free from the feeling of powerlessness caused by nihilism.

She knew that what she did might not produce any results while she was alive.

But if she always thinks "I don't see any change", she will do nothing, and not only will the reality not change, she will also be very miserable.

This feeling of powerlessness is common to everyone when the epidemic swept the land.

Jiang Baige wrote her into her new novel.

The new novel is the one she decided to write in early 20, when the epidemic just broke out.

But at the time she only knew that she wanted to write about a group of women.

This group of women come from different industries, but they have a similar goal: to win this "war".

She collected a lot of materials, various stories from all walks of life, different women, their work, life, their gains and losses, their courage, tenacity and despair.

But she is not writing non-fiction, so she needs a thread to connect these materials and turn them into a story.

The beginning is always difficult.

And a lot of things came at once: illness, work, the script, life in general.

She had to force herself to press a certain button, isolating herself from the outside world and completely immersing herself in her novel, before she finally found the thread.

And this concept, which was originally so vague that only the four words "female power" were shining, has gradually become specific into the four words "female group portrait".

She wants to write about a "family of doctors".

My grandmother is over 70 years old and she had retired but she did not stop working. This time she returned to work because of the need to save lives. My mother is the backbone. My daughter just graduated with a doctorate and joined the fight when the epidemic broke out.

In addition to the three main characters, there are other guest characters.

For example, the patients they meet may also be women who shine in various fields, each with their own joys and sorrows.

There are also other women they come into contact with at work who are fighting the pandemic together, such as hospital nurses, construction workers involved in emergency construction, community workers, taxi drivers, food delivery and couriers, etc.

A large part of this is a part that Jiang Baige rarely paid attention to in her previous writings - not only in her writing, but also in her reading: non-middle-class women.

During the three years of studying for a master's degree with Gui Hongyan, Gui Hongyan always emphasized that when studying women's liberation, we should not only focus on middle-class women who are educated, have certain thoughts and economic foundations, but also turn our attention to rural women, who are a very large group in our country.

She also said that the constraints and inequalities faced by rural women are not only numerous, but also permeate every aspect of life.

To give the simplest example, in cities, we at least know that a husband beating his wife is "domestic violence" and is wrong; but in rural areas, it is commonplace and is even recognized as a way for men to control "their own women."

Therefore, for women who are also victims of domestic violence, urban women are much more likely to receive help, escape, or even receive compensation than rural women.

This is not "comparing the worst" or "not as good as the best, but better than the worst", but a dilemma.

This means that rural women are less likely to speak out, or even... they don't know what oppression they are suffering.

But they are also human beings. They feel pain when they are beaten and feel it is unfair when they are sold. Therefore, they need someone to speak up for them even more.

In her previous life, Jiang Baige had never considered this issue.

Before becoming Gui Hongyan's student in this life, Jiang Baige had never thought about this issue.

It was not until she, Song Siwen and Zhuang Yao went to Wangnan Village and Gui Hongyan put forward this idea after listening to her sharing in class that she vaguely realized that there were still some shortcomings in her ideas.

But I never had the chance to write.

Because she really doesn't understand the situation of rural women very well.

However, in recent years, her thinking has opened up a little: maybe she doesn't understand rural women very well, but besides rural women, there must be other non-middle-class women.

So she turned her attention to the farmers who came to the city to work.

Of course, she still didn't know these women very well, but she saw them a lot more often.

Therefore, when writing this group portrait of the fight against the epidemic, she immediately thought of incorporating these women who are common in daily life but often overlooked into her story.

This was a big challenge for her, but it made her very excited.

It’s interesting to say that for someone like her who only has a short-term enthusiasm for people and things, only writing can make her feel excited, no matter whether it goes smoothly or not: because she is creating something new.

That was her true inner desire.

When she was writing, she put everything else behind her.

I was still thinking about it while sitting on the subway on my way to work. I also put a small notebook with a pen in my bag so that I could write it down at any time.

Although mobile phones can be used to record ideas, she thinks it is more convenient to draw a mind map with a pen to illustrate the development of the story.

That day, she was in a hurry and forgot to bring her notebook. When she took out her mobile phone to take notes, a message popped up on the top of her phone.