Primary Source Reading

I found it interesting that He Zhen viewed capitalism as both oppressing to men and women. Often times, we think of women as the ones that are being held back whether in the wage gap or the expectations to be a wife rather than have a job. Therefore, something was needed to replace capitalism. Servants, workers, and prostitutes are among the people who suffer the most due to physical abuse or have no value placed upon them. The necessity of a need for a change of mindset to displace the anger on men to "real" problems such as hunger and take the time to solve that. Depending on men or others actually is what continues to facilitate your issues and you can only depend on yourself.

This is an interesting perspective because it seems to be empowering in the sense that they say that you need to earn your own rice bowl and not depend on the man to do so, but it still does not change the fact that the inequality based on wealth and abuse is still ocurring and that socially you are isolating yourself from friendships and relationships with others. Some students I have already have entered into abusive relationships and been able to leave them, but some of them don't see what's going on; their boyfriend becomes the parental figure/protector that they yearn for. This reading showed the universality of the struggles that women deal with across ages and countries.