Thirty-two-year-old Vanessa sat on the sofa in the living room folding her freshly dried clothes, seven or eight children were running around in the living room, dining room, and bedroom, and two quieter girls were using the walls as canvases, intently painting graffiti that looked completely indistinguishable from those abstract artists' paintings.

These are the children of the neighbor's family, because their parents are going to work on the citrus orchard, so they entrust the children to her and pay for them.

At the moment, Bob Costa is on the TV selling a Coke that can lose weight, Vanessa is dismissive of this product, she doesn't believe that there is such a Coke, or if there is, she is not ready to buy it, her husband is exhausted from tending to the fruit trees in the citrus orchard every day, and when he comes home for dinner, he lies in bed like a dead body, and has no interest in her at all.

She just wanted to buy some cheap cereal or food, and fill the stomachs of these little devils with more economical food as much as possible, so that she could save more money on care, and sooner or later, she would be able to use the money she had saved to start a small business, so as not to be ridiculed by her husband, a fruit farmer, who married a young lady who would not even be able to do the simplest of farmers.

In Florida, most low-level women work on citrus groves like their husbands, after all, Florida accounts for 80% of the citrus production in the United States, and if you are willing to work hard, you will never find a job here, even if it is a woman.

But Vanessa didn't want to be a fruit grower, she was not reconciled, because she used to be a pink collar and had more social status and presence than her husband.

It is a professional label between blue-collar and white-collar workers, which belongs exclusively to women, and non-professional female service workers are collectively referred to as pink collars.

She used to be a pink-collar nurse in an old people's home, a job with good pay and benefits, until the damned affirmative action movement came along, causing her to lose the good job she thought would be able to retire, and then she was ridiculed by her husband all the time.

She didn't understand why American women wanted to pursue equality between men and women, but only later found out that it was the wives of rich people, the wives of politicians and a large number of women who could live comfortably without work, and the women around her who lived on meager salaries did not want equality at all.

Why equality, why equal power regardless of gender, that means that women are drafted into the army, women no longer have court-biased support when they divorce their husbands, easier access to child custody, working as long as men, and the elimination of protective measures against women......

The women claimed that women should be equal to men in all respects, that there should be no protective legislation, and that women should be treated with the same respect and independence as men.

These women who don't have to work set off a craze, and women across the country respond stupidly and enthusiastically without even knowing the specifics, including Vanessa, and then she and a large number of unskilled fans are unemployed.

Because the nursing home responded to this movement very positively, canceled the previous benefits for female nurses, such as female nurses only need to work six hours, do not need to work night shifts, do not need to face the elderly alone, etc., the manager of the nursing home smiled and told her that he supports the affirmative action movement, respects your choice, you female nurses must work the same eight hours as male nurses, regularly work night shifts, and take care of the elderly alone, if we can't do it, we will also treat male nurses like male nurses, and fire them equally.

A female colleague who lost her job with her once said that this trend that seems to support women's independence and equality on the surface is definitely a conspiracy made by rich female sluts.

Vanessa is convinced of this, because it makes the situation of women at the bottom more difficult, no education, no knowledge, no protective policies, and physical strength is not as good as men, but they have to compete with men on an equal footing for those jobs, they will never have the opportunity to climb up again, they will never have the opportunity to fight for the same life and status as those rich women, and they will always be the vassals of men.

And the women who started this trend, who will never be unemployed, will never have to work to live a very prosperous life, and they have nothing to lose, but they have won attention.

"My name is Susan Curtis, I'm from San Jose, California, and not so long ago, I was a prostitute." A woman's voice sounded inside the television.

I'm still a prostitute, Vanessa suddenly turned her eyes to the screen, and then she gave her judgment with certainty: that woman was definitely not a prostitute, at least not the kind of low-level prostitute she had seen.

The woman on the TV who looked to be about twenty-four or five years old, wearing a very simple outfit, a black T-shirt, jeans, sneakers, her brown hair was neatly pulled up, and she had a confident smile on her face, sitting on the sofa next to Bob, and the whole person looked simple and refreshing.

"You don't look like that kind of woman, Susan, can I call you Susan?" Bob asked Vanessa the question.

Susan laughed, took out a copy of Joy Seeker magazine and handed it to Bob: "Joy Seeker is a California edition, and I know there is a Florida edition as well, so Bob, you're no stranger to this kind of magazine, right?" ”

“…… What should I say? Are you embarrassing me, strange, or not strange? I have a girlfriend, maybe she's watching me at the TV, Susan. Bob took the magazine with a wry smile: "How is this magazine?" ”

"This is a magazine from five months ago, turn to page 11, count the fourth ad, see what is written on it, read it." Susan said to Bob.

Bob followed Susan's prompt, flipped to the page of the magazine, and then showed a shocked expression: "Oh my God~"

Then he stood up the magazine and faced the camera, and the camera immediately zoomed in on the angle for the first time, Vanessa in front of the TV clearly saw that there was a woman with heavy makeup scratching her head and posing on it, and there was an advertising slogan written next to it, no need to look carefully at the advertising words that were exposed, just that photo made Vanessa recognize, the woman in the photo and Susan in the TV are indeed the same person.

"I borrowed money from a friend, and then I put my call ad on it, and chose the photo I was most satisfied with at the time." Susan looked at the magazine in Bob's hand with a big smile and said, "Now it seems that it sucks." ”

Bob nodded: "Of course, if you weren't with me personally, you might still think it's good to look at this photo alone, but for now...... What happened to you? Susan? It's only been five months, and you're like a different person. ”

"I did change people, I worked as a prostitute for five years, I thought I would be confined to a dilapidated room in the ghetto where I could only enjoy the sun at sunset, lying in bed afraid to go out, afraid of being killed, afraid of missing a guest's call, and just like that, rotting and moldy in that room until I died completely, but one evening I saw a strange advertisement, and my fate changed." Susan took out another copy of "Joy Seeker" and handed it to Bob:

"This time it's the back cover."

"Free computer training, free job ......" Bob said as he showed up the ad in the second magazine, "Who's going to put this ad on the ...... I mean, shouldn't it be in those serious magazines and newspapers? ”

Susan looked at the audience and smiled quietly: "A man who really wants to help the poor woman, he put the ad on "Joy Seeker", I was as curious as you at that time, so I called and wanted to mock this idiotic behavior, and it turned out that the ad did not deceive me, and he did not either, he taught me computer technology for free, recommended a job for free, and even received a computer computer that he rewarded me for getting an A during my free training. ”

"As long as I get an A in my academic performance, can I still receive a gift? I want to sign up now, and a new and cheapest computer will cost 600 yuan. Bob exaggerated.

Susan looked at Bob, shook her head slightly, and continued with a smile: "It's not just a gift, Bob, I used to have an irregular weekly income, but now I have a weekly salary of 270 yuan, live in a clean and bright room, have health insurance, pension, vacation, I even became a partner in a small company, own company shares, and I choose to accompany him to help more women, so far, we have helped nearly a hundred women like me who are not competitive in this society, complete computer training, And help them find a stable job in various technology companies with a weekly salary of no less than 200, they are not non-professional fan collars who can only get more than 100 yuan a week, but professional white-collar workers. ”

"You're different from the other guests who came, Susan, my previous guests were very emotional, or jumping up and down, or crying or whatever, just trying to get the audience's attention, to win sympathy or whatever, and you've been very calm." Bob asked Susan curiously.

"I'm doing the right thing, when you know you're doing the right thing, your heart is calm, there is no joy or sorrow, I don't have any culture, I don't know what it means to talk about women's equality, but I know that what I'm doing at the moment is really helping women, helping the poor, OSS has given me a chance to be reborn, shortening the knowledge gap between me and those who have money, he told me that as long as I am willing to work hard, I can always change the bad life at this time, this is the right thing to do, no matter what the sales are, We're going to keep doing it, I'm from the bottom, I've been through all the hardships, so I'm going to help them. Susan looked at the camera calmly:

"I'm Susan Curtis, I'm willing to take responsibility for everything I say, and in the end, it's only 49.99 to give you a chance to change at this time, a different life."

When Vanessa saw this, she almost immediately grabbed the phone and dialed the shopping number displayed on the TV.

"OK, although it is a very calm tone, but there is a lot of confidence and strength in it, Susan, you mentioned a 'he' in your words, would you mind telling me who he is?" Bob spoke.

Susan nodded: "Of course, he is the man who changed my fate, the only man who has been willing to give me life guidance since my father died, a student at Stanford University, the founder of Actor, the developer of OSS software, a country boy who is willing to help all the poor, Tommy Hawke." ”

Before Bob could call out Tommy Hawk for his appearance, a prompt from the director had already come from his headphones:

"Before this woman could finish speaking, we sold one hundred and fifty-two, and it was still growing, and I don't think it would be a good idea to ask her to stop, Bob, let her continue to talk about something."

Bob took advantage of the camera to pay attention to Susan, turned around and turned off the microphone, and said in a low voice:

"This woman is just his follower, believe me, the guy in the back is more inciting, because I've seen it."

The second more ~

(End of chapter)