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“Jin Zhiying Born 82″It is a novel that is popular in Korea. The movie of the same name was released in October. Kim Ji Young is the most common female name in South Korea, and her life in the novel condenses a variety of dilemmas women may face. She is alone and everyone.

So let’s sort through several novels and non-fictional works from the perspective of naming. Women struggle with the unnamed, collective name of a collective life experience that is not seen, and manifest their personal naming, and accompany this struggle.

One name and many names

On April 1, 1982, she was born in a department of obstetrics and gynecology in a hospital in Seoul, South Korea; she is 50 centimeters in length and 2.9 kilograms in weight; her father is a civil servant and her mother is a housewife. Five-year-old brother. The family lives in a 33-square-meter bungalow with grandma.

Her name is Jin Zhiying. It is a character written by Korean writer Zhao Nanzhu’s “Jin Zhiying Born in 1982.” At the age of six or seven, she was scolded by her grandmother for stealing her brother’s milk. When she was in junior high school, her tutoring in remote areas became the target of male classmates. After returning home, she was accused by her father: “Why talk to strangers and why wear such short skirts?”

When she was in college, she saw a supervising professor questioning an excellent and well-educated sister, do you know how much pressure you are so smart on others? After work, she was asked to join a dinner and accompany the male minister to drink. The minister comforted her: “What are you afraid of with so many men here?” After two years of marriage, she had a child, quit her job at a small public relations agency, and became a full-time housewife.

Full-time housewives mean endless housework. The movie of the same name was released in Korea in October, and it began with a dense schedule of housework. Jin Zhiying cleaned up the garbage, sucked the floor, and sorted out her children’s toys in her home. Then she went to her mother-in-law’s home in Busan to cook and wash dishes. She got up in the morning to pick vegetables and peel apples. Happy look.

Only when the sun goes down at four or five o’clock in the evening, Jin Zhiying can stand on the balcony and stay for a while in the setting sun. But the most relaxing time in the whole day will soon be broken by the children’s cries. She returned to the living room and continued to engage in tedious chores and childcare.

This is Jin Zhiying and her life. In fact, I am afraid that she is not as delicate and beautiful as the actor Zheng Youmei who plays Jin Zhiying in the movie. She was mediocre and ordinary, invisible to people.

A statistical survey shows that the most common name among Korean women born in 1982 is “Kim Ji Young.” Most of the time, Jin Zhiying doesn’t even have a name. She seems to be an accessory that cannot exist independently, her brother’s sister, her husband’s wife, her child’s mother, her husband’s daughter-in-law, and a subordinate employee of the company’s male leader. Her name was erased, her voice was drowned, and her image was blurred.

Boy preferences, stranger tracking and follow-ups, and workplace sexual harassment. The scenes and encounters that these women can no longer familiarize with in the book make Jin Zhiying the epitome of millions of women— They are often ignored and wiped Go for the name.

In an interview with the media, Zhao Nanzhu stated that in order to “symbolically show how the world erases women’s names,” she specifically deleted the names of all male characters except Jin Zhiying’s husband. Just as women are often referred to by their mother, grandma, etc., in the book “Jin Zhiying Born in 82”, men have no names, they are “father”, “scholar”, “boss”, “brother” “.

This is the author’s resistance to gender inequality. This arrangement refers to the “Bayesian Test”, an indicator of gender inequality in the film system, (BechdelTest) -in a film, Are there more than two women with names, and have there been any dialogue between them, and whether the dialogue is related to men? In fact many movies don’t fit thisSeemingly simple, easily met standards. Based on this, Zhao Nanzhu tried to hide the names of male characters in the book, and used an ironic way to reflect the neglect of women in the whole society.

Interestingly, Zhao Nanzhu admits that when looking back at her work, she unexpectedly found that she often unconsciously turned women’s names into their roles in writing, writing in the way of mother-in-law and mother. During the process of revising the manuscript, she gave names to female characters, and those names—whether Kim Ji Young or Mi Suk—are very common female names in South Korea.

From Emily Doe to Chanel Miller

Women are unknown, and they appear not only in everyday life but also in more extreme situations.

In January 2015, Emily Doy, 22, at the time (Emily Doe) < / span> Sexual assault while attending a Stanford Brotherhood party. After drinking beer and vodka, she went to urinate outdoors. In her 2019 memoir, “Open My Name,” she recalled this experience: “I was bored, relaxed, drunk, and extremely tired. I was less than 10 minutes away from home … after that I was My brain was blank, and I broke it. “Two students found the unconscious Emily Doy behind a trash can outside the party venue.

Emily Doy was in the hospital when she regained consciousness. Pine needles were mixed in her hair, her panties were missing, and there was still aggression in her vagina. She was examined, inspected, and photographed. Then she realized that she had been raped.

The whole process was partly from the news she learned at the hospital, and partly from the Internet. There, she was described as a “unconscious woman” and the rape was committed by a Brock Turner (Brock Turner) swimmer. He has a name, a family name, a photo, and a detailed background story. And Emily Doe is just an unknown woman, a “victim.” In the police report, she had no name: “He claims that he kissed the victim on the ground. He took off the victim’s underwear and put his finger in hervaginal. He also stroked the victim’s chest. “

In the book “My Name Is Public,” the author describes this destructive experience: “The original life left me, and a new life begins. To protect my identity, I Was given a new name: Emily Doy. “

Under the pseudonym Emily Doe, she started appealing, and she posted the case of the case on the Internet, sparking various discussions. In the process, she was attacked because she was drunk at the time of the incident and was not the “perfect victim.” A former classmate of Turner said in a letter to the judge: “I’m pretty sure she and Turner had flirted at the party and left together”, implying that she was drunk and unconscious The allegations by the personnel woman that it identified her classmate as a rapist were unfair.

The judge who finally accepted the case convicted Turner of sexual assault, the prosecutor demanded a six-year sentence, and the judge sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment on the grounds that a long sentence would seriously affect Turner, and Postponed execution.

Four years later, the book “My Name Is Public” is published. In the book, the author bid farewell to his pseudonym and made his real name Chanel Miller (Chanel Miller) public. “Name” is the core of understanding this book. This move means peeling off the mask she was given, revealing herself, revealing the flesh-and-blood individuals under this real and lively name. She is not a victim, not a raper and a victim, not an unknown girl who was drunk at Stanford University. Her name is Chanel Miller.

She is not a white woman, as shown by her pseudonym, but a Chinese-American, whose Chinese name is Zhang Xiaoxia. She has a personality, a personal history, and a lively life experience. For her, reaffirming her name in front of the public represents a sturdy political gesture that is accompanied by her attempt to reject the claims of brutal labeling and the courage behind such attempts.

While naming herself, she chose to hide the names of others. At the beginning of the book she wrote:

“In this story, I will call the jury a jury and the judge a judge. These names are here to show the role of these people. This is not a private complaint … I believe we are all Multidimensional existence. And in court, being flattened, shaped, wrongly labeled, and vilified are all harmful, so I do n’t do the same to them. I would use Bullock ’s name, But in fact he can be Brad or Brody or Benson, which is not important. The point is not the importance of their individual individuals, but their commonality, the commonality of all people who keep a broken system running continuously. “

“The ultimate purpose of not naming them is to name myself.”

Japanese journalist Shito Ito described a similar experience in Black Box: Shame of Japan. In 2013, Ito Shiori studied undergraduate at New York University, and met the Japanese director of TBS Television in Washington, Takayuki Yamaguchi. After that, the two had intermittent emails to talk about work. In 2015, during a meeting, Shito Ito fainted in the bathroom, but when she woke up, she found Yamaguchi heavily on her. She realized that she had been raped.

Five years have passed since reporting the case, to appealing, to the police declaring insufficient evidence to not prosecute, to Ito Shiori to submit a reconsideration application, to no further prosecution, to Yamaguchi’s counterclaim against Ito Shiori. For most of these five years, Shito Ito had no name, and she was described in news reports as an invisible and “female victim.”

She is unhappy with the label that is always wrapped around her head. “‘Victim’ is not my profession or my person.” She wrote in the book, “Not to call it ‘Victim A’, but to let them be real, named, Does the appearance of a person bring more influence to society? “

Movie stills of “Jin Zhiying Born in 82”

It is even more ironic that a symbolic screen of a good husband image has won envy from everyone in reality, a collective climax of the public account: “Can there be a hole Liu What kind of dissatisfaction does such a husband have? “This precisely reflects the absence of men in the family and the difficult situation of women in reality.

In the movie, Kim Ji Young can already be called lucky. She has a harmonious native family, a younger brother who supports her and reflects on her gender privileges, an older sister who physically supports and practices feminism, and a mother who loves her in her family against her husband ’s patriarchal thoughts, She helps her good sisters and supervisors and has enough financial means to pay for psychological counseling when she is ill.

Even so, Jin Zhiying still feels powerless, feels hopeless and has no way out. She blames herself for making her life like this.

What about women in reality? What about Korean actresses Cui Xueli and Guerla who have committed suicide because of intolerable long-term cyber violence? What about Zheng Youmei, who was resisted by netizens for appearing in the movie “Jin Zhiying Born in 1982”? What about the female artists who survive the gap between the Korean chaebol and the capital where the patriarchal ghost is still circling? After suffering humiliation and being beaten up by his feet, he was asked why he didn’t leave sooner? How about Japanese girlfriend Yuura Nakaura and Ukrainian girlfriend Julieta who were violently treated by Jiang Jinfu?

I’m afraid these women’s sufferings and plights cannot be solved by novels and movies. But novels and movies have taken a positive step by asking questions and opening up a space for discussion and telling.

At the end of the interview, Zhao Nanzhu thought about the best state of female life: “I hope that the society will not judge us because we are women, but treat us as real people. People have nothing to do with gender. Everyone will have what they want to be, and hope that every woman can become what she wants to be under the condition of no gender, that is the best look. “ < / p>