"No way, we are human rights liberators on the front lines of the women's liberation movement! We are not bound by the ignorant and backward thinking of social customs. ”

A younger-looking woman stood up and retorted with some emotion Tom's remarks that she didn't agree that the cause she was fighting for was bound by "social customs"!

Not only her, but several other women looked at Tom less kindly.

Tom still smiled and continued.

"You want women's rights to be protected, right?"

"You want women to be equal to men in all aspects of society, right?"

"You want women to be free to live in the United States, right?"

"But everything you have at the moment is from men, and all of you here are from extraordinary families, your father is either a lawyer or a businessman, and no matter how poor he is, he is also a factory owner, right?"

"So we want to change all this, we want to reverse the embarrassing situation that women can only depend on men!"

"That's right! We want to change all that, we want women to be lawyers, businessmen, factory owners and even the president of the United States! ”

Looking at these indignant feminist vanguard fighters, Tom just sneered and continued.

"But the solution you found was to seek the support of men!"

"Whether you are protesting, marching, or giving speeches, you are no different from coming here to see me today, you are all seeking the "help" of men, longing for men to awaken their consciences, and longing for men to give women their due rights under the stimulation of that insignificant conscience. ”

"The French Revolution was not a protest, American independence was not a march, and Texas's independence from Mexico to the United States was not a speech."

"That's extreme, bloodshed is contrary to our original intentions."

"Do you think that bloodshed will get its rightful rights? Even if you use bloodshed, you may not be able to win the rights that women deserve. ”

Tom slowly walked to the other window and looked out at the farm in the distance.

"Look, there's still a lot of black people on those farms, how much do you think they're going to be paid? Do you think these blacks have their own land? Is it cultivating for your own land? ”

"The Emancipation Proclamation was spread from the White House in Washington to every corner of the United States, but did we Dixies listen to it? I'm unceremoniously telling you that even today, more than half a year after the Civil War ended, there is still a $2,000 slave market on the Texas Black Market. There are still "black slaves" in Texas and even in any large farm in the southern United States who are not legal slaves. ”

"The highest form of bloodshed, war, has not really emancipated black slaves, do you think women can be emancipated with just a few mouths or some wars?"

Tom walked back to his little wooden chair, leaned back in it, and snapped his fingers at Miria, who came over and began to squeeze Tom's shoulder.

Tom pulled out his own glass "cigarette", which was a glass tube filled with appropriate cotton and other fillers, and a certain amount of suction power was required for people to inhale through this tube.

Tom doesn't smoke, but he loves the feeling of sucking in the air, and the feeling of inhaling makes Tom know that he is really breathing, that he is really living.

"Do you know what really binds women? Is it a man? ”

You may be thinking: How else? Isn't it a man who roughly binds a woman? Isn't it true that men use religion, laws, institutions, and other means to restrain women? ”

"Of course not, what has really constrained women for thousands of years is the productivity of technological constraints."

"Suppose a man needs to eat 100 catties of food a year to survive, a woman has a smaller appetite, 75 catties of food, and a child has 50 catties of food."

"So shouldn't all the people in the world produce enough food for humanity to survive?"

"Only when humans have enough food to survive will they think about producing clothing, houses, and so on."

"But I have to admit that women are inferior to men in terms of heavy physical labor, and it is a pity that almost all industries are heavy physical labor."

Tom gestured to Milia, who was massaging his shoulder.

"However, times have changed, and with the development of industrialization, the productivity of human beings has been greatly improved, and the proportion of the population who meet the needs of workers to meet the basic needs of human beings is getting lower and lower in the total population."

"A thousand years ago, it might have required almost all human beings to participate in basic production to satisfy human survival, but now in the nineteenth century, only a part of human beings is needed."

"The surplus population does not need to do heavy physical work, but can do non-heavy physical work."

"Women are not without advantages in non-heavy work, such as Milia, a kind of waiter work that has proven that women are more advantageous than thousands of years ago."

"Of course, this kind of acolyte industry is still dependent on men and on a patriarchal society."

"But it gave me an inspiration, I, we, we can let women try to develop some similar industries, less dependent on men."

"I'm not going to give you a penny for free, because that's insulting the words women's liberation movement."

"I will not openly support women's rights in any meeting, which symbolizes the right of men to give alms to women, and it is also disrespectful of women's rights."

"I will give women jobs so that women can really have their own income, and they don't need men to earn independently."

"For example, the northern sales agent of Hero Company."

Tom found several documents from a stack of folders and distributed them to the feminist fighters present, who circulated them to each other.

When everyone had seen the same, John got up again and propped his hands on the desk.

"What blacks lack is a ridiculous decree that is dispensable? No, they need a steady income! An economic base is needed! The same goes for women. ”

"In 1843, there was a German teacher who said: The economic base determines the superstructure, and I believe that when women really have their own income, you will be able to carry out all your activities much more smoothly than now."

"Why did the French Revolution succeed? Why did the United States become independent? Why did Texas secede from Mexico and join the United States? ”

"It's all because of the economic base!"

"Let women also fight for their rights!"

Tom raised his hands to his chest, clenched his fists tightly, and the women who were doing it couldn't help but applaud Tom, applauded this advanced and great thought.