Ladies, this week is the "Career Week" for your graduating class, and the topic assigned to your brothers is "Literature and Career". I thought no one in the world had mentioned this question. I advise you not to choose literature as a career: first, because literature cannot become a career, anyone who wants to concentrate on writing must first solve the problem of rice bowl. Literature is the product of those who work hard. People who want to make a living rarely have this ability. Naturally, some people make a living by selling articles, regardless of the epitaph of poems, they can set decorations and deliver them on time. If it is to compile teaching materials for big bookstores, it will be exported to the market one or two months after the introduction of the new curriculum standard. But this is selling literature, not necessarily literature. You know, selling literature is the most bitter profession in the world, whether at home or abroad. In London, GrubStreet is a residential area for poor people who sell literature. Herbert, an Austrian poet and dramatist, could not write literature at first, but later married a rich Vienna star and made great progress in articles and books, which proved that Yu was right. In China, Li Qingzhao, a poetess, married her husband and solved the problem of rice bowl before she could make a good word. Let Li Qingzhao sell manuscripts for a living. I don't think her "Yu Shu Ci" can get three bowls of mung bean soup. Besides Yu Shuci, he must have written tens of millions of words of boring works. Therefore, Zhao Mingcheng's great contribution in the history of China literature lies in his ability to support a poetess. I think EdgarAllanpoe can marry a rich wife. Even if he can't have better works, he will leave more works for future generations. Secondly, I want you to understand my sincerity first, so don't mind. Because I observe the current general situation, the best destination for women in China is to get married. You should realize the difference between career and life achievement. Occupation is to make a living. For example, people who take photography as their profession can support their wives according to other people's wives. People who take pictures as their hobby are different. One is purely economic, and the other is psychological preference. Naturally, sometimes a career can be close to a person's inner desire. But I hope you clearly understand the economic problems involved. So, I advise you to get married, but I don't want you to be poor. You can resist the current marriage system and economic system, but at least you should understand what the current economic system is.
As we all know, the current economic system is extremely unequal between the sexes. The salary of female teachers is always less than that of male teachers, and the same is true in Britain and America. In Britain, the law doesn't even allow wives to teach. No matter at home or abroad, women can enter occupations (such as massage, typing, waiter, etc. ) It is always less than those occupations that men can enter, and in the occupations that women can enter, men will compete with you and take advantage of pay, opportunities and talents. I don't need to remind you that the best chefs and tailors in the world are men, not women, so in your traditional territory, men also win. Single women suffer more losses than single men in society. Only single and self-sufficient women can understand the degree of injustice by reading their own environment. Therefore, the only occupation without male competition is marriage. In marriage, women take advantage everywhere, but outside marriage, men take advantage everywhere. This is the current economic system.
Maybe you think that this way of looking at marriage is too practical and destructive. My answer is that what I am talking about now is purely economic, and there is no distinction between high and low in the world. Women do this for a living, and selling tofu and wonton at marriage is not necessarily inferior to men. There is a man in Yong 'an Company who stands there all day to open the door for you. This is his profession. Maybe he will stand there all his life and open the door for the unknown girl's wife. Ask him what the meaning of life is, but he can't answer. But as a profession, every job is worth paying, and there is no dignity at all. Nature can also get a job and become social garbage. I'm sorry about your career. There are many wives and concubines in Shanghai. Their only contribution to society is to spend their lives by driving, buying smoked fish, removing dust, perming their heads and forking sparrows. Such people are freeloaders. But there are also many men who are sorry for their jobs. Many foreign students are trained by the state. When they come back, they will do articles to save the country and wait for politicians to buy them off, or they will come back to serve ice cream to foreign guests. Therefore, both men and women have good and bad livelihoods, and no one is much better than anyone else.
One more thing, occupation is commensurate with talent. It is probably more suitable for a woman to build a happy family than a man's usual career. If you know the details of men's vegetarianism, you must say I agree. Some university presidents are only qualified to brag when they are communication clerks, and some ministers are only qualified to drive elevators. Important people in the world are not really "ruling", and most of the meals in the world are "mixed". If you don't make a living, someone will make a living for you. Every year, people in China die from disasters, wars, diseases or displacement, all of which are caused by men making ends meet. To be honest, women rarely make a living in the family, and most of them are commensurate with their talents. I often admire my mother for putting her children to bed and then coming out to talk to others. Only those who have been fathers and coaxed children know that not everyone can eat this kind of food.
On the other hand, I don't need to say that you are willing to get married. At least you nineteen are. Nineteen men are naturally willing to get married, but we have to find another job besides getting married. It doesn't matter whether we are satisfied or not. So we can draw the conclusion that marriage is the best, most suitable and most satisfying career for women.
After solving the economic problem, we can go on to discuss the second problem, that is, how to treat the profession of marriage rights. As I said, there is a difference between making a living and achieving something in this world. Since I chose marriage as my career and solved the rice bowl problem, I can study freely and be a useful person in society. I'm not talking about combing your hair, dusting, cooking and mending socks, because I assume that you are all good wives and mothers, and I assume that college graduates will keep accounts. The problem is deeper. It's a pity that many women only know how to be fertility machines after marriage, and don't want to make progress. Naturally, many men just copy the accounts, have a clear conscience and accept it calmly. This is an overly materialistic outlook on life or marriage.
I think an educated woman should have an independent job in society besides being a wife. Mrs Russell's idea is desirable. She believes that women should get married around the age of 25 and have a child every three or four years, thus giving birth to three children. At the age of 35, they will join the social work again. With proper birth control methods and appropriate equipment, some women can still serve the society during childbirth. Mrs Russell pointed out that a woman who raised a child at the age of 35 was better as a teacher than as a daughter. Because of the experience of being a mother, I can better understand the child's psychology and have the ability to deal with children. I have always opposed girls being principals, especially girls' schools, because their outlook on life and morality are immature. The most regrettable thing now is that female teachers are waiting to get married, but those who get married are not waiting to become teachers, and they have disappeared since then.
If you want to be a woman's woman, it's not too late to be a scholar at this time. I am equally dissatisfied with female literati. They can only write poems. There were more than 1000 female "poets" in the Qing Dynasty, but there was no female historian or textual researcher. Poetry is the hardest to sell. This is also a major reason why I object to women selling literature for a living.