Xiucai's story is over, what about "female discipline" and "old wear"?
No one could have predicted that the goal of "out of the circle" that was often waved by internal entertainment but was difficult to break through was easily achieved by a middle-aged man this year.
——He is the new top stream that Leng Buding pops up in the form of memes from your chat group: the beautiful anchor who has attracted millions of fans with similar videos: Xiucai.
Xiucai's "out of the circle" exploded and cut.
Although in the Erchuang community, people will tirelessly use the video of this middle-aged top stream as a model to explore one new traffic password after another.
But compared with the middle-aged and elderly groups, who never skimp on the obsessive pursuit of expensive gifts, the younger generation mostly only thinks it is fun. The second creation video is also mostly based on spoofs, and there are many ghost and animal elements that degrade personality.
Even, many people not only mocked "idols", but also mocked his audience from "idols".
A large number of people broke into Xiucai's videos, leaving spoofed and ridiculed comments, and some invaded the homepages of Xiucai fans, opening a new round of "old" and "new" century lines with netizens of aunts and grandmothers.
Why can one group make bottomless mockery of another group just because of aesthetic differences?
On the surface, this is an aesthetic contemplation caused by generational differences, but it also implies a subjective incomprehension and passive disregard for the "emotional appeal" and "survival situation" of middle-aged and elderly women.
Under the aesthetic difference, the emotional call of being crushed
It is difficult to decide whether Xiucai's outing has brought disaster to his fans, or whether the generation of spiritual emptiness urgently needs new vents.
After the fire, Xiucai's video attracted a large number of young people who complemented smart devices. They reunited in the hot comment area, leaving behind or positive mockery or yin and yang weird ridicule.
Some people seem to speak out, but when they read it to the end, they can easily identify it as "enemy friendly forces". Others are crouching in the comment section, waiting for them to offer new material.
It seems that in their eyes, these times lag behind the latter - the comments of the old aunts are just jokes that can be chewed and played with repeatedly.
To be fair, the old aunts' concern or show of love is at most a little warmer in tone, not too out of line. After all, they are not proficient in the language of the Internet, and it is difficult to play with smart devices.
But without exception, the old aunts got almost always the most vicious replies. There are even people who call friends and summon others to watch and have fun.
Why is it called "perverted"?
In the cyberspace where the right to speak is not equal and the empathy is not abundant, the mutual incomprehension created by this aesthetic difference always seems to be reduced to the aesthetic difference between one group and another.
This is similar to the reason for Cai Xukun, Ding Zhen and others to go out of the circle - the origin of the difference is not that these groups have done something wrong, but only in the idols they pursue, not what they identify with and accept.
Some time ago, the news that the girl wore a wedding dress to participate in Wang Yuan's concert caused many criticisms.
Although the parties later appeared to explain that netizens "transferred flowers" from their wedding photos and concert photos, this rumor still circulated in various online communities and was used to prove the "brainlessness" of "rice circle".
Are they opposing simply the move of "women wearing wedding dresses in front of other men"?
Not really.
Two days ago, the video of girls wearing wedding dresses to watch Jay Chou's concert was on the hot search, and the comments have changed dramatically.
The answer to the reversal of attitude is clear: in their aesthetic system, this idol is more worthy of pursuit.
In fact, these people may not know that an important reason why an idol is an idol lies in the emotional investment and spiritual satisfaction obtained from him in the process of following him.
Taking the artistic achievements of their idols in their own eyes as the criterion for judgment and differentiating the aesthetic demands of another group is, in essence, an arrogant neglect of their emotional demands and living environment.
The same is true for the aesthetic differences of Xiucai video audiences.
It was once suggested that old aunts leave their time and money for the high arts that they were interested in.
But such "goodwill comments" seem to be meat-eating for the audience of Xiucai Video.
The data shows that nearly ninety percent of Xiucai's millions of fans are women, and more than sixty percent of women over 50 years old. Among them, very few are from first-tier cities. From the messages in the comment area, you can also glimpse the life status of followers.
Through this comment, which is full of typos and language problems, a middle-aged and elderly woman uses a handwritten input method to type down a sentence and confide in the scene.
This spiritual emptiness is not something they can control.
Click on the homepage of these aunts, and you will see that their lives are monotonous and repetitive, getting up early to work, returning home at night, taking care of the farm, and taking care of the housework. Those deafening comments are the condensation of their daily life for ten years.
A simple sentence of "life dilemma" and "spiritual emptiness" cannot summarize the real situation of middle-aged and elderly women, compared with men of the same age, they have carried the "female discipline" imposed on them by traditional civilization in their past lives.
When talking about gender issues and the injustice that women are treated, some people will habitually blur it as a "class issue", but perhaps only women can understand that gender itself is a situation. Especially in some traditional areas where ideas are stiffer than pickaxes and rules are older than dirt.
A brief escape from "female discipline"
There was a comment under the news of "Women's Anti-Mixer Up the Mountain": I would rather see them appear in Xiucai videos than see this kind of apparently oriented propaganda.
In fact, this set of women's discipline, which takes the form of "good wife and good mother" and "self-dedication" as the spiritual core, not only frequently appears in official propaganda, but also is embedded in the climate of many families and many regions.
On some platforms where women are dominant, many people have shared the experiences of female elders in their families.
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Their experiences are similar, they are all willing to give up their ego and help the men in the family achieve their big self. A lifetime of regret and pain can only be covered up by the title of "good wife".
These worthless praise and praise, with "discipline" as the core, are actually the most vicious curses imposed on women by patriarchal soil. In this set of disciplines, women are no longer simply women, but a collection of reproductive functions, money-making functions, and pension functions.
Gu Yu Lab's report "Love and Loneliness: Women in a Fake Jin Dong Scam" records a case:
The reason why Cao Yongzhen, 69, is obsessed with the fake Jin Dong on the short video platform is because it gives her a "feeling of love".
Cao Yongzhen was married by an arranged marriage, and only learned after 6 months of engagement that she was going to marry an alcoholic man. She sued twice for divorce, but was unsuccessful.
Her daughter persuaded her: My brother is in middle school, low is not high, my father will not live without you. When Cao Yongzhen heard this, she could only continue.
This is far from an isolated case.
Su Min, a 55-year-old woman who was on the hot search for driving an RV alone last year, has the same family situation.
When she was interviewed by People Reporter, she was especially excited to hear "what is your idea".
From her daughter, the reporter learned that this was Su Min's instinctive reaction brought by years of domestic violence and mind control. Whenever Su Min did something that did not meet her husband's expectations, the other party would ask him: What are you going to do, do you have any ideas?
As an anchor, Su Min will still often get sneering from her husband: "Earned tens of thousands in a day? In his mind, it seems immoral for women, especially middle-aged women, to still show their heads and run their own business instead of focusing on their families.
Cao Yongzhen and Su Min are just the epitome of the group of middle-aged and elderly women who have struggled to live half their lives under the "female discipline".
These women have never been educated in love and lack the nourishment of love. In the comment area of Xiucai Video, there are not a few such women.
Combined with their past experiences, it is not difficult to understand why they are so sought after by showmen.
In the video, Xiu is dressed in a suit, dressed up, and even his hair is meticulously combed. The scene behind him is mostly in the rape flower field, or in the truck. He always appears casually, pretends to be frightened by the person on the other side of the camera, then shyly bows his head, smiles heartily, and sings without twisting.
In the imagination of the old aunts, the image of an intellectual who works in the farmland still does not stain his sleeves and can generously sing love songs to pursue the girl he wants, and this is how it is implemented.
In the era they lived, this was undoubtedly a dream lover that could not be met or sought. And Xiucai's set of customized videos with a complete process sharpened by algorithms easily awakened their memories and expectations.
The pursuit of Xiucai videos is more like a short spiritual exodus for them. And rewarding is not only the only and sure way for them to obtain emotional value, but also they have few active choices that they can make halfway through life.
In fact, from the objective presentation, their love has been quite restrained.
Under the video of a short video platform's top female "smile in the city", most of her fans, middle-aged and elderly men, left comments that were sexually harassing with "release male charm" or "I want to possess you".
Under Xiucai's video, in addition to the deliberate spoof of the younger generation, the comments of the old aunts are much friendlier.
There is a shared life, there is a warm invitation, and there is concern for him.
But even so, many viewers still feel incomprehensible: there is nothing wrong with pursuing love, but they are all fifty or sixty years old, how can there be the pursuit of love and desire?
In addition to women's discipline, another factor that limits them is "age".
Age-averse: a collective inertia that has been cultivated for a long time
Jilin City is home to a women's inn that has been open for more than 20 years, attracting a large number of women who have difficulty returning home with a room fee of five yuan per night. Travelers range from women who escaped from domestic violence to laid-off female workers.
"The Onion Peelers" chronicles several women who live in a women's inn to find some odd jobs, save more money, and send them back to their children.
The oldest is Liu Guilan, 77 years old, still looking for work for the family of the eldest son and younger son, in order to look young, she learned to buy two boxes of hair dye cream from the people around her, dye her white hair black, and take care of the elderly who may be younger than her.
This is the dilemma faced by middle-aged and elderly women. Throughout their lives, their needs are forced to give way to the expectations of others, and at every stage of their lives, new functions are developed. Until old age, as long as there is still a function to make money, it will be squeezed out of the last trace of value.
And what they are given back is far from equal to what they give.
A few days ago, the "subway judge" was on the hot search, and when the full picture of the matter had not yet been clearly investigated, there was a marketing number that attracted a lot of praise for the beating guy with the statement that "the elderly occupied the seat, so they were slapped".
Even if it was later clarified that the old man did not occupy a seat, the so-called "subway judge" was not a justice trial, but a psychopath who sexually harassed women many times.
But this clarification was drowned in a collective.
The rejection and disgust of the elderly already seems to be an inertia based on instinct. When you think of middle-aged and elderly aunts, you will think of their moral kidnapping on the bus, and they occupy the square and endlessly disturb the people.
Many others go back to the days they grew up to illustrate the correctness of "bad guys getting old."
As the drowning people of the times, whether it is spiritual space or material foundation, they have not received special care. But in the current soil, the lack of public services can only be reduced to the mutual beating and resentment of the old generation and the new generation.
When misogynistic inertia is combined with female discipline, the reasons why old aunts are ridiculed can also be clearly captured.
In fact, old age is just a replica of "what to do at what age". It frames the possibilities of different stages of life, turning a complete person into a collection of functions. When you are old, your functions are reduced, and the pursuit of love and dreams can only be reduced to nonsense.
The cultivation of age-weary inertia is not only overnight, but relies on the reality that has existed for many years and gradually shrinks.
You don't have to go too far to see that each generation of young people is actually pinned on hope for the future of this collective. Because they still have a lot of life trajectories to open up, to actively write or be artificially branded.
But once they pass this age, the object of care will be transferred to the next generation of young people in aggregates.
Specific to each individual, those stigmatized and ignored middle-aged and elderly groups are actually the most closely related to everyone we are now. The degree of care given to them really determines the lower limit of civilization of this collective.
We are their past, and they will be our future.
Screenshot from Sang Arc's 1949 film "Middle Age of Sorrow"