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Today, "Kim Jiyoung Born in 1982" was released in South Korea.
This movie starring Zheng Youmei and Kong Yoo has been controversial since the filming started.
Last year, when Zheng Youmei announced on Instagram that she would star in this movie, she received thousands of insults and curses. The
movie has not yet been released, and there have been a lot of bad reviews on the Korean film rating website.
People crusade against movies and actresses. In the final analysis, they are cruising against the original work called "Jin Zhiying Born in 1982."
It can be said that whoever comes into contact with it will encounter cyber violence. Before
, Irene, the captain of the girl idol group Red Velvet, said that he had read the book at a fan signing event, and the photos were cut and burned by fans; Girls’ Generation member Choi Soo-young, because he expressed his views on "Born in 82" in a reality show. The love of "Jin Zhiying" has also been attacked.
sounds like a heinous book.
This book has sold more than 1 million copies in Korea and was selected as the best novel of 2017 by the Federation of Korean Bookstores.
The content it writes is not shocking, but a woman in her 30s, an ordinary and ordinary half-life.
I just finished reading the Chinese version of this novel. Originally, I just wanted to talk about this book. I searched the news and found out that it caused so many disturbances.
And these attacks just proved how true everything written in the book is.
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So, what is written in this book that sounds "heinous"?
In short, it is about the growth story of a girl named Jin Zhiying. In the story of
, there are no emotional fetters and no drama conflicts. The author just narrates honestly, like a long post about the experiences of friends and himself.
Yes, the literary character of this novel is not strong, it may not be left in history, but it is enough to shock for a while.
because it talks about a lot of topics that have been covered up and discussed privately, but never discussed publicly: gender equality.
Seeing these four words, everyone nodded and said yes.
However, as to whether this is really achieved in life, we do not go into details. The offense of
is that it writes many details of life.
These details are so real that they resonate with many women. What are the details of
? Here are some examples.
childhood.
Jin Zhiying’s father is a civil servant and his mother is a housewife.
She has a sister two years older than her, and a younger brother five years younger than her.
One of the earliest scars in Jin Zhiying's memory was to steal his brother's milk powder.
She likes the taste of milk powder, but her grandmother, as long as she finds her granddaughter stealing it, she will slap her back severely, and she will be caught off guard, and the milk powder will spray out of her mouth and nostrils. Grandma
's anger was not because Zhiying was past the age of taking milk powder, but the point was that it was the milk powder of her baby grandson. No one else can get involved.
In addition, at home, everything is given priority to younger brother.
is delicious for the younger brother first. My sister and Zhiying can only pick up the crumbs around to eat; the things used are also exclusive to the younger brother and shared by the sisters. For example, the younger brother will cover one quilt, and the sister and Zhiying will cover one.
primary school. Although
raised his hands to vote every time, I don’t know why. In the six years of elementary school, every time in Jin Zhiying’s class, boys were the monitors.
In school, Zhiying was bullied by the boy next to her and entangled every day, which made her very painful.
However, when she told the teacher all this, the teacher just smiled and said, "Boys are like this, the more girls they like, the more they will bully her."
But, who will define which isI really like it. Which is bullying? Even if
really likes it, should he let it go?
No one can give Zhiying the answer.
junior high school.
The school where Jin Zhiying attended, the teacher had very strict clothing regulations.
In winter, girls should wear black stockings for students, no more socks, no sports shoes, only leather shoes.
In the cold winter, you have to wear leather shoes that are not warm, so cold that you want to cry.
In comparison, boys' dressing specifications are not so strict. They can wear various styles of shoes, and they can only wear T-shirts without shirts.
is popular, but confronts the teacher. The teacher replied that because boys are active and sweat easily, it doesn't matter if they are casual.
Besides, on campus, there are always male teachers who like to pinch the inside of female students' arms, pat their buttocks, or slide up and down on the buckles of their underwear.
high school.
When Jin Zhiying was in the first year of high school, a male teacher in his fifties always liked to poke female students in the chest by checking the uniform brand.
even raised the skirts of the girls when checking the uniforms.
once went home from cram school and took a bus. Zhiying was followed by a male classmate.
was able to get rid of it because of the help of a kind woman.
But when she returned home, her father severely reprimanded her.
asked why she had to go to a cram school so far away, why did she tell strangers, why the skirt was so short?
In the eyes of his father, girls must be careful in everything, dress conservatively, behave carefully, and at dangerous times, dangerous people must know how to avoid them, otherwise the problem lies with people who don't know how to avoid them.
University.
Kim Ji Young was admitted to the Humanities Department of Seoul National University.
is approaching graduation. She was carefree at first, but gradually, she found that most of the companies she wanted to go to recruited were boys. When
graduated from Jin Zhiying, the admission rate of women in the top 100 companies was only 29.6%.
workplace. When
is looking for a job after graduation, Zhiying will be asked by the interviewer during the interview: "If the client has some physical contact, such as pressing your shoulder or touching your thigh inadvertently, what will you do?"
Answer, but still failed the interview.
However, she finally found a job, working in a company with a certain scale in the industry. Most of the supervisors are men, but there is also a female senior who treats her very well.
However, with the marriage and childbirth, Zhiying had to choose to quit his job and become a full-time mother.
One day, Zhiying took her child in the park to bask in the sun, and accidentally heard the office worker next to her whispering, mocking her as a "mummy", that is, a woman who relies on her husband to make money and raise children at home.
Jin Zhiying didn't know why he gave up his career and gambled his life to give birth to the child, but he became a "mummy" in the mouth of others.
Actually, doing housework and taking care of children every day is even more tiring than when she works.
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and above are some of the problems that Jin Zhiying will encounter at all stages of life.
Among them, some are indeed more serious in South Korea, but some are also very common in China.
For example, patriarchy in the family, different pay for equal work between men and women in the workplace, and reproductive pressure faced by women.
A few months ago, I accompanied my grandma back to my hometown and talked a lot about the past with her.
When she was a child, she suffered from natural disasters and famines and almost starved to death. But what she worried about was how her mother favored her brother and younger brother. Anything she ate was given to the boy first. She and her sister were almost killed. Abandoned.
Of course, this is the old almanac.
But I have also heard many classmates and friends talk about the grievances they suffered within the family.
Actually, it's not a big deal, but speaking of it, everyone is particularly wronged and even convulsed.
Many times, they only regard their own experience as a partiality within the family, and will not put it together with the circumstances of the school and the workplace.
So "Kim Jiyoung in 1982" can be in Korea, even inThe whole Asia has caused such a big impact, in addition to the strong resonance, I am afraid that it also makes many girls feel understood for the first time, and even makes them discover many hidden pains that they have not discovered.
So, this is not just a personal encounter, but a structural inequality. How does
break this inequality?
This may not be a regulation, or a movement can change all at once.
But understanding is a bridge.
Women reading this book certainly have a lot of resonance.
As a man, he should also read this book. You will find that there are many scenes you have never experienced or even imagined.
knows that is the first step to change.
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