How can a man survive if a woman disappears?

Men and women, who can't live without whom? If such questions are just empty talk, I am afraid there will never be a conclusion. But today, someone implemented a bold idea - let women disappear and see how men live?

What happened in the week when the woman left?

Amid the controversy, the villagers of Habib, especially the men, bravely accepted the challenge. During these seven days, the BBC sent 12 reporting teams with 90 people to track and film 24 hours a day, and used a lot of unnoticed covert filming techniques. During the filming period, some men simply put down their work, took a vacation and focused on taking care of their children at home, while others worked and devoted all their spare time to family affairs. At three o'clock in the afternoon of the seventh day, the harpy women finally returned. The family reunion scene was very touching. Many men held flowers in their hands, and some even baked "Welcome Home" cakes. In the evening, the men had even bigger surprises for their wives and girlfriends. They held a celebratory dinner in the village committee hall. Under the direction of the only male teacher in the village who had received culinary training, these inexperienced "chefs" brought out the dishes they had carefully prepared. There was also a song and dance performance after the dinner, named "Seven Days of Absence".

In interviews after the trial, the harpy men described their "seven-day experience"

David Medley, 59, said: "It's a smart idea, but in the end I felt a bit overwhelmed. But compared with those men who need to take care of children, it's still easy for me. I need to feed three dogs and a cat, and I also have to be the secretary of the village committee." Medley has been living in Habby, but during these seven days he got to know many neighbors he had never met before. "I took cooking lessons, and when I found out I didn't know how to use a vacuum cleaner, I felt embarrassed. Before Janet left, I didn't think I couldn't live alone. When she was away, the house was too quiet. I feel that the atmosphere in the whole village is now friendlier than before. This friendship is not the kind of false friendship in front of the camera." In addition to the grand dinner on the last day, the men also worked together to build a fence and repair a new road during these seven days so that the village's activity venue would no longer be crossed by passing cars and bicycles. The woman came back, and Hobbit returned to his former calm. Everything seemed to be the same, but the axis of life in this small village had tilted several degrees.

According to a report released this year by the United Nations Economic and Social Council, three-quarters of households in the UK are now dual-income families. In the 1970s, British women's income was only half of that of men, but now the gap is only 22.8%. However, 60% of women who earn the same or more than their husbands also have to take care of their children at home. The proportion of men who claim they do housework has remained at 12% since 1954. BBC producer Kelly Weber said: "We are sure that at the end of this experiment, both men and women will learn something from their experiences and begin to look at their lives in a new light."

When Eve was no longer just a rib of Adam

How do the women of Harpy spend the seven-day holiday?

Women who leave home may feel a little uncomfortable at first, such as having trouble sleeping in a new place, worrying about their children and pets, and worrying that things at home will be destroyed because of their husbands' carelessness. But by the third day, most women have settled into a new life track and are enjoying it. Except for those women who have full-time jobs and work during the day and stay in hotels for seven days at night, most women use this rare time to visit relatives and friends, and some women go out to travel around the area in groups.

After seven days, some women said they began to feel homesick, but most still felt unsatisfied. This is exactly the opposite of the mental journey of the men in the experiment. When the women leave, the men are eager to try, for this free holiday without any constraints and for the opportunity to show their household management skills. But they soon discovered that things were not as easy as they had imagined.

When women are away, can men still have an easy life facing family, children and community interactions alone? Perhaps, as the harpy men said, the week passed both quickly and slowly, and in the end they felt a little overwhelmed.

Women cannot live without men because Eve was created by God from Adam's rib

Therefore, traditional concepts have always believed that women seem to be more dependent on men than men, and women always need the care of men. Only when women have the care of men can they live a fulfilling life. But today's women are becoming more and more powerful. From big things like competing for jobs to small things like changing light bulbs at home, they can handle everything by themselves without even thinking about asking men for help. Women can still live without men. The opposite happens when a man leaves a woman. Although Adam, who lost a rib, still looked independent and intact, he had unknowingly fallen into a state of "physiological absence" that was difficult to detect. Once an injury occurred, it would be more difficult and would take longer to repair.

The 1979 American film "Kramer vs. Kramer" is such an example. The wife didn't want to be a slave to the family anymore and left her husband and son. Kramer then realized what he had been neglecting - family life. For women, the discomfort of leaving men is actually more like a habitual "psychological absence". Once this "psychological absence" period is over, women find that they have more time for themselves, often get together with friends, make their own decisions without quarrels, and don't need to follow men around to pick up dirty socks and take out the trash. What's wrong with such "absence"?

Japanese women are world-famous for their virtues. At the same time, Japanese men are also very chauvinistic. They stay away from the kitchen and think that housework is women's job. They are very content with their actions, believing that it is their hard work that supports the family. But this situation has changed in recent years. Japanese women have become more independent, and many of them are well educated and have good jobs. If marriage cannot bring them a more comfortable life and satisfy them emotionally, they would rather choose to be single. According to official statistics from Japan, over the past 10 years, the proportion of unmarried women aged 25 to 29 has increased from 40% to 54%, and among women aged 30 to 34, this ratio has also increased from 14% to 27%. Enjoying the freedom and happiness brought by economic independence, Japanese women will not easily give up their jobs and return to their families. And women who do not plan to quit their jobs have even less reason to find a man to take care of them at home after their busy work. To this end, the Japanese city of Ota has introduced a special leave system, which makes it an obligation for employers and men to take paid "parental leave" in order to change the image of Japanese men being indifferent to family life.

Females have grown up, should males keep up?

In this world, women are always fickle, but in the eyes of fickle women, men are always the same. Therefore, insynchrony becomes another irreconcilable, unanswered, and already concluded old topic between men and women. Especially in recent decades, women have not only assumed more and more roles in social life, but have also surpassed men in some aspects and are catching up in more aspects.

Not long ago, geneticists at the University of Oxford in the UK published an amazing research result. They said that the future will be the era of women and men will become extinct! Because from the perspective of the Y chromosome, "men are defective women." No matter what scientists say, at least for now, men and women are still interdependent, both physiologically and psychologically. Just like the Chinese character “伴”, a person consists of two halves. If either half is missing, the person will be incomplete, or at least the quality of life will be affected. However, when women are making great strides forward, constantly making up for their shortcomings, and growing from a rib into a complete individual, should men also keep up in time and make up for that rib?

Listen to other voices

No matter what feminists say, female stars are always the group that needs men the most and can live without men the most. Two-time Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster has two children out of wedlock, but no one knows who the father of the children is. "I just don't need a man," Judy said.

Madonna can't live without men, but she has left many men. In an interview with the American TV program "Entertainment Tonight", the host asked Sister Madison, in what ways have you changed Guy Ritchie? Sister Madison said: "I am very good at this. In the one and a half years of marriage, he changed the child's diapers many times and made the bed. The next day he would pick up the smelly socks he threw on the floor by himself..."

Writer Mian Mian said: "I don't need a man now... This may be related to my failed marriage, but more importantly, at this age, I have already known all kinds of men and have no interest in them, and the man I like has not appeared yet."

Luo Dayou: "Someone asked me whether I would like to be called a man, a musician, an artist or a singer? Of course I chose a man. I am a man, I need a woman, I need love, I need physical satisfaction and communication. Men will always need women, women will always need men, this is an unchanging truth." At this point, he took a deep breath and added: "But the spouse really affects the creation." So he left his partner of many years, Li Lie.