Women's Body Writing — From Muzi Mei to Sister Furong!

2006/2/28 16:30:02

For a time, beautiful-woman writers and body writing became hot publishing trends. Later, "A Critique of Ten Beautiful Women Writers" fiercely attacked the so-called ten beautiful women writers: Hong Ying, Zhao Ning, Wei Hui, Jiu Dan, Mian Mian, Annie Baobei, Chun Shu, Yin Lichuan, Muzi Mei, and others. Among these ten, Muzi Mei is particularly special — unlike the other nine, she first appeared in the online world before entering reality.

Just as the Mouse sparked the deluge of internet songs, Muzi Mei sparked what followed: Bamboo Shadow Blue Pupil, Rogue Swallow, Sister Furong, and so on. Bamboo Shadow Blue Pupil and Rogue Swallow used the primal approach of nude photos plus erotic writing. Sister Furong took the student route — a Stephen Chow-style absurdism mixed with occasional abandon. But regardless of how many stylistic mutations there are from Wei Hui, Mian Mian, and Muzi Mei to Bamboo Shadow Blue Pupil, Rogue Swallow, and Sister Furong, one thing is fundamentally the same: women's body writing.

The internet has made expression multidimensional. When male chauvinists curse women's body writing, no one can deny that it has subverted, in a completely different way, the so-called literature under the former purely patriarchal rule. Since hands are part of the body and brains are part of the body, when has there ever been writing that was detached from the body? Every new mode is a tempestuous advance. Whether cursed or mocked, no one can change it.

Literature in the internet age will ultimately undergo a complete transformation, and pluralism will be its most important characteristic. No one can prove their way of existence comes from God, because even if God once existed, He died long ago. Beyond the bottom line of the law, everything else is superfluous.

The internet will make society pluralistic. Pluralism needs no understanding — only through not understanding does it become truly pluralistic. From a feminist standpoint, if anything is truly truth, then making men angry and driving them crazy is the only truth.