Topic > Xie Bingying's Problems for Women are Being a Woman

An example of unfair prejudice was that women in Guangxi Province said they complained, yet “they just lowered their heads and worked like cows and horses” (263). Bingying doesn't even refer to these women as people, they were simply animals doing what they were told. Although they were not financially independent, they supported their families by bringing with them one hundred to two hundred pounds, while their husbands made next to nothing (263). Bingying had no interest in impressing her future in-laws with her parents' arranged marriage. When her mother imprisoned her, she used her ideas of revolution to push her through