Chapter 54: Friends of Women
Wang Defu himself obviously didn't think so much about what he wanted to become the "conscience of the empire", and his original intention of writing this "The Subservient Status of Women" was just because after reading Huang Kan's "On Women", his thoughts were really incomprehensible, so he used the pen as a sword to point directly at the issue of women's rights in today's society.
It's just that Wang Defu wrote it seriously, and he wrote it too deeply and too much, and there are dry goods such as "Chen Qingyan" and "Suzhou No. 1 Girls' High School" in the article, which can be said to have raised the persuasiveness of the whole article to a higher level.
After all, he didn't rely on his own imagination to play at will, but after full investigation and materials, he wrote such a profound essay.
Of course, Wang Defu will definitely not expose Chen Qingyan's real name, otherwise it is estimated that Chen Qingyan will leave a name in history with such a classic essay.
Just like another world, Lu Xun once wrote a "In Memory of Liu Hezhenjun", which made students who had no mathematics about this text remember this student movement leader named Liu Hezhen.
The influence of great writers may not be able to influence those in power in contemporary times, and society will not change dramatically because of an article.
But time will eventually prove that backward and decadent things will definitely be eliminated, and advanced ideas can make human society better, but history is spiraling.
Zhu Moche, the editor of "Xuehuan", commented on Wang Defu's essay work like this-
"To be honest, I was very surprised when I saw this new work by Mo Cun. I thought his new work would be a masterpiece of prose that would allow readers to experience supreme beauty again, but what I didn't expect was ...... In the end, I can only say that this article is too radical and I disagree with some of the points, but it is indeed a good argumentative essay that can be thought-provoking. ”
I have to say that Zhu Moche has already given face to his new friend Wang Defu, and only euphemistically rejects some of the radical ideas in his essays, such as the absurd words that women can also be top leaders.
There is also a sentence in the article "Women can hold up half the sky", which is actually written by a male author! It's nonsense! We men have a traitor!
But Zhu Moche obviously admired Wang Defu very much for personally collecting materials in order to write this argumentative essay convincingly, and even interviewed a female student from Suzhou No. 1 Girls' High School, which made the arguments of this article almost impeccable, and this kind of writing attitude was very much appreciated by Zhu Moche.
In addition, Zhu Moche strongly agrees with Wang Defu's right to education mentioned in the article, and he also supports Soochow University to open women's enrollment in the next academic year, on par with those universities that have opened women's admission, and he also believes that women's independence is indeed a symbol of social progress.
It can be said that many male readers who identify with the liberation of women because of reading Wang Defu's article can only do it to the extent of Zhu Moche at most, which may also be the limitation of the entire era.
Didn't Wang Defu know that the essay he wrote was too advanced and radical?
He actually knows it, but when he writes like this, everyone is obviously not so reluctant to "women's right to education", because the readers' eyes are attracted by those "amazing words", and they have to oppose these "amazing words", and naturally they will not oppose those more moderate views.
For example, it is also a trend for famous universities to recruit women, and the imperial capital university, which is "free in thought and inclusive", has long been recruiting women, and Huaxia University, which is "unremitting in self-improvement and virtuous", has not lagged behind for long.
But there is no doubt that as soon as Wang Defu's masterpiece comes out, it will become the ideological weapon of some high-level school officials, and the opening of women's enrollment at Soochow University in the next academic year will become a sure thing.
This has made Wang Defu's "The Subservient Status of Women" achieve a realistic purpose, as for directly changing society through such an article, it is a fantasy.
Huang Kan and Huang Cannon, the author of "On Women", were also played by Wang Defu, and his attention was undoubtedly attracted by Wang Defu's "amazing words", which is obviously the easiest place for Wang Defu's work to be refuted and attacked.
Huang Kan stared at Wang Defu's view that women can also be the top leaders, and wrote a masterpiece at the first time, spraying Wang Defu wildly, saying that Wang Defu was a fool who supported "Chicken Si Chen", and he also directly attacked Wang Defu personally, thinking that this fool would definitely become the face of those demon wives who interfered in politics in the harem when he returned to ancient times!
Huang Kan's attainments in ancient literature are really very high, if Wang Defu is using realistic arguments to increase the persuasiveness of his article, then Huang Kan is "taking history as a mirror", and the examples of those harem politicians and chickens in history that led to disasters to the country and the people are all written in classical Chinese.
In the end, Huang Kan concluded, who dares to say that Wang Defu is a young man with progressive thoughts, who is a chaotic minister and thief, plotting against him, and he can't see that the sun does not set on my Chinese empire is thriving!
Huang Kan also said that he hates Wang Defu the most self-righteous author who points out social problems and institutional problems, which is not beneficial to the country or the people, and will only demagogue people's minds and cause turmoil.
Why can't you write something more positive, what the country needs is harmony, not to bewitch women and make men rebel, this Wang Defu is simply a sinner through the ages!
Huang Kan's "Chicken Si Chen, Disaster to the Country and the People" also became popular all of a sudden, he himself is also a nationalist, a big country chauvinist, a machismo, with a great sense of national responsibility and honor, for liberals and anarchists like Wang Defu, they are simply naturally antagonistic and disgusted.
In fact, Wang Defu from the future is not a doctrine at all, unless he comes up with a "Wang Defu doctrine" himself in the future.
And with the passage of time, "The Subservient Status of Women" finally spread to girls' schools such as Suzhou Women's Normal University and Suzhou No. 1 Girls' High School, which caused a huge repercussion in the female student group!
In addition to the title of "genius", Wang Defu has another title - Friend of Women.