American Entertainment 1982

Thirty-two-year-old Vanessa is sitting on the sofa in the living room, folding clothes that have just dried. Seven or eight children are running around in the living room, dining room, and bedroom. The wall is used as a canvas, and the graffiti that looks completely indistinguishable from the paintings of abstract artists is focused on.

These are the children of neighbors, and because both parents have to go to work in the orange grove, they are entrusted to her for paid care.

At this moment, on the TV, Bob Costa is promoting a Coke that can help you lose weight. Vanessa dismisses this product, because she doesn’t believe that there is such a Coke, or if there is, she is not going to buy it. Her husband, exhausted from tending the trees in the citrus orchard, came home from dinner and lay dead in bed, not interested in her at all.

She just wants to buy some cheap cereal or food, and fill the stomachs of these little devils with cheaper food as much as possible, so as to save more nursing fees. Sooner or later, she can use the money saved to go to Start a small business to avoid being ridiculed by my fruit farmer husband. He married a rich lady who can't even do the simplest farmer.

In Florida, most low-level women work in citrus orchards just like their husbands. After all, Florida’s citrus production accounts for 80% of the entire United States. As long as you work hard, you will never find a job here, even if you are a woman.

But Vanessa doesn't want to be a fruit farmer, she is not reconciled, because she was a pink-collar worker before, and has more social status and sense of presence than her husband.

It is an occupation label between blue-collar and white-collar, which belongs to women only. Non-professional female service workers are collectively referred to as pink-collar workers.

She used to be a pink-collar nurse in a nursing home, which was a job with good income and good benefits, until the damn affirmative action appeared, which caused her to lose the good job that she thought she could retire, and then she was always being rejected. The husband scoffed.

She didn't understand before that why American women pursue equality between men and women, but only later did she discover that it was the wives of rich men, politicians and a large number of women who could live comfortably without working. Women living on meager wages have absolutely no desire for equality.

Why equality, why equal rights regardless of gender, that means women are drafted into the military, women no longer get court favoritism when they divorce their husbands, easier access to child custody, same hours as men, cancel Protective measures for women...

Those women claimed that women should be equal to men in all respects, without any protective legislation, that women should be respected and independent like men.

These women who don't need to work set off a wave, and women all over the country responded stupidly and enthusiastically without even knowing the specific content, including Vanessa, and then she and a large number of pink-collar workers without professional skills lost their jobs.

Because the nursing home responded positively to this campaign and canceled the previous benefits for female nurses. For example, female nurses only need to work for six hours, do not need to work night shifts, and do not need to face lustful old people alone. The manager of the nursing home Tell her with a smile that he supports the affirmative action movement and respects your choices. You female nurses must work eight hours like male nurses, regularly work night shifts, and take care of the elderly alone. If you can’t do it, we will treat male nurses equally. expelled them.

A female colleague who was unemployed with her once said that this trend of supporting women's independence and equality on the surface is definitely a conspiracy by rich female sluts.

Vanessa is convinced of this because it makes it harder for women at the bottom, without education, without knowledge, without protective policies, and with less physical strength than men, but they have to compete with men for those jobs on an equal footing, and they will never have a chance to move up Climbing will never have the opportunity to fight for the same life and status as those rich women, and will always be a vassal of men.

And those women who set off this trend will never be unemployed, and can even live a very good life without working. They have nothing to lose, but they have won attention.

"My name is Susan Curtis. I'm from San Jose, California. Not long ago, I was a prostitute." A woman's voice sounded in the TV.

I'm still a prostitute. This sentence made Vanessa turn her eyes to the screen immediately, and then she gave her judgment with certainty: that woman is definitely not a prostitute, at least not the low-level prostitute she saw.

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

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

Susan laughed, and took out a copy of "Happy Seeker" magazine and handed it to Bob: ""Happy Seeker" California edition, I know there is also a Florida edition, so Bob, you are not unfamiliar with this kind of magazine, right? "

"...how should I say? You make me very difficult, strange, or not? I have a girlfriend, maybe she is watching me in front of the TV, Susan." Bob took the magazine with a wry smile: " How about this magazine?"

"This is a magazine from five months ago. Turn to the eleventh page and count to the fourth advertisement. Look at what is written on it and read it." Susan said to Bob.

Following Susan's prompt, Bob turned to the page of the magazine, and then showed a shocked expression: "My God~"

Then he stood up the magazine to face the camera, and the camera immediately zoomed in. Vanessa in front of the TV could clearly see that there was a woman with heavy makeup posing on it, and an advertisement for a call was written beside it. You don't need to look carefully at the advertisements that are exposed, but Vanessa can recognize the photo. The woman in the photo is indeed the same person as Susan on the TV.

"I borrowed money from a friend, so I posted my call advertisement on it, and chose the photo I was most satisfied with at the time." Susan looked at the magazine in Bob's hand angrily, and said with a smile: "Looking at it now, it sucks."

Bob nodded: "Of course, if you weren't by my side, you might still feel good looking at this photo alone, but now... what happened to you? Susan? It's only been five months, you seem like a different person .”

"I am indeed a different person. I have been a prostitute for five years. I thought that all my life I could only stay in that dilapidated room in the slums where I could only enjoy the sun at sunset. I was afraid to go out in bed. I was killed, and I was afraid of missing the call from the guests, so I just rotted and molded in that room until I died completely, but one evening, I saw a strange advertisement, and my fate changed." Susan took out another copy The Pleasure Seeker, to Bob:

"This time it's the back cover."

"Free training in computer technology, free job recommendation..." Bob showed the advertisement in the second magazine, and exaggerated in his mouth at the same time: "Who would put this kind of advertisement on... I mean it shouldn't appear in those magazines. Serious magazines and newspapers?"

Susan looked at the audience in the audience with a peaceful smile: "A person who really wants to help poor women, he put an advertisement on "Happy Seekers", I was as curious as you at that time, so I called, Wanting to poke fun at this idiocy, it turns out that ad didn't trick me and neither did he, he taught me computer skills for free, recommended jobs for free, and even received an A from him when I got an A in my free training. One of my computers."

"As long as you get an A in your studies, can you still receive gifts? I want to sign up now. The cheapest new computer costs 600 yuan." Bob said exaggeratedly.

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 unstable weekly income, but now I earn 270 yuan a week, live in a clean and bright room, and have healthy Insurance, pensions, holidays, I even became a partner in a small company, owning shares in the company, and I chose to accompany him to help more women. So far, we have helped nearly a hundred women like me in Women who are uncompetitive in this society complete computer training and help them find a stable job with a weekly salary of not less than 200 in various technology companies. They are not non-professionals who can only get a weekly salary of more than 100 yuan Pink collars, but professional white collars."

"You are different from the other guests, Susan. My previous guests were all very emotional, jumping up and down, or crying bitterly. In short, try to attract the audience's attention, win sympathy or other things, but you have always been calm. .” Bob asked Susan curiously again.

"I'm doing the right thing. When you know you're doing the right thing, there's peace of mind. There's no joy or sorrow. I don't have any culture. I don't know what those women who have been talking about for decades mean equal rights for women." , but I know that what I am doing at this moment is really helping women and the poor. OSS has given me a chance to be born again and shorten the knowledge gap between me and those rich people. He told me that as long as I work hard , can always change the bad life at this time, this is the right thing, no matter how the sales volume is, we will continue to do it, I come from the bottom, I have faced all the suffering, so I want to help them." Susan looked at Lens:

"I'm Susan Curtis, and I'm willing to be responsible for everything I say. In the end, it only costs 49.99, giving you a chance to change your life and change your life."

Seeing this scene, Vanessa grabbed the phone almost immediately and dialed the shopping number displayed on the TV.

"OK, although the tone is very calm, it contains strong confidence and strength. Susan, you mentioned a 'he' in your words. Would you mind telling me who he is?" Bob said.

Susan nodded: "Of course, he is the man who changed my destiny. Since my father passed away, he is the only man who is willing to give me life guidance. He is a student at Stanford University, the founder of Actor Company, and the developer of OSS software. He is willing to help All poor people's country boy, Tommy Hawke."

Before Bob called out for Tommy Hawke to come on stage, a prompt from the director came from his earphones:

"We've sold a hundred and fifty-two orders before the woman finished talking, and counting, and I don't think it's a good idea to tell her to stop, Bob, tell her to keep talking. "

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

"This woman is just his believer. Believe me, the guy behind is more instigating because I have seen it before."

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