That morning, Catherine addressed the entire nation. By noon, Ms. Landa had stepped forward on behalf of women's rights organizations to firmly support Catherine.
Ms. Landa stated that after so many years of struggle, women had made some progress toward equality, but there were still many people who discriminated against women.
These rigid, reactionary ideas were the most foul dregs of humanity's social evolution and should be swept into the garbage heap as soon as possible.
Ms. Landa even used "family" as an example. She hoped that those who discriminated against women would think of their own daughters before discriminating against women, and then think of their mothers.
Her words resonated widely throughout society—
But in reality, they were completely useless. If these people could truly recognize that, they would not hold such rigid prejudices in the first place.
Many people assumed that those who treated women with prejudice would show a "softer" side when dealing with their wives, daughters, or even mothers.
But in reality, people who truly held such prejudices against women treated the women in their own families the exact same way!
It was like an old fossil who did not care about his wife at all. His son would inherit that attitude from him and pay little attention to his own mother.
Perhaps he could maintain the outward appearance of a dutiful son under normal circumstances, but when the issue truly touched his core interests, he would certainly turn on her at once! But ordinary people liked that sort of thing. They were also the group most heavily influenced by every kind of public opinion and ideological current—so heavily that they could not even find their own position amid the various waves of thought! Whenever another wave came crashing in, they rose and fell with it...