Love in the age of masks

  Text / blue silk

  Issued in 2020.5.18 total issue 947 "China News Weekly"

  Since the mask has become a necessity of life, there have been more paragraphs about the mask. Some people enumerate the various benefits of wearing masks: epidemic prevention, sun protection, anti-ugliness, saving lipstick and cosmetics, people who do n’t like can pretend not to know ... Some people think that masks have a beauty effect, which balances everyone well The face value, because the mask replaces the nose, lips and expression function, only looking at the upper part of the face is very attractive. And it also constitutes another kind of interest, which will stimulate the curiosity of others: how beautiful is the face hidden behind the mask?

  In fact, this unexpected effect has long been the old stalk in the movie. There is a Hong Kong film, a school newly transferred to a girl, wearing a mask to go to school every day, no one else knows her appearance is beautiful or ugly, but the more this is, the more male students pay more attention to the face behind the mask . In order to see Fang Rong, a boy deliberately found a quarrel with her, bet she must be ugly, let her take off her mask in public to verify, if he is wrong, please eat ice cream. Girls can't stand the excitement, and really pull down the mask ... No matter how thick the mask is, they can't stop the youthful movement and the eager eyes of human entertainment gossip.

  Some people also expressed anxiously that how should unmarried men and women blind each other wearing masks every day? During the epidemic, foreign countries issued a guide specifically for dating matters between men and women. Experts advise that you should try to find someone you are familiar with. If you do n’t have a familiar date, you have to date a stranger. It ’s best to wear a mask all the way. Cultural critic Zhu Dake said many years ago: "The mask aesthetics have just murdered our love for the body." Now that the times have changed, the mask aesthetics have encouraged people's love for the body.

  When the supply of masks is tight, there are many tutorials on making masks online. Some women ’s materials are men ’s boxer briefs, and men cut women ’s Bra into two masks. These people are showing affection and spreading dog food. They should show others that they are loving flowers and cooking. Oil, all love was put on the face.

  However, people have experienced the benefits of wearing masks, and it will be difficult to take them off. At this time, if someone does not wear a mask, it becomes a weird coffee. In the ridiculous comedy "Rhino" by French writer Yunescu, the protagonist of the bottom society, Bellanji, was reluctant to follow the crowd and refused to transform into a rhino like the people in the town. In the eyes of the absurdists, they have become alien. Neil Bozeman said: "What destroys us is not what we hate, but exactly what we love." When everything is too entertaining, people who can't extricate themselves from it become a species of entertainment to death .

  Moreover, when people are hidden between masks, it will also bring some unexpected consequences. A foreign man recently said on social media that he and his wife were wearing masks to go to the supermarket, and returned home two hours later. After taking off the mask, they discovered that it was not his wife who went shopping with him hand in hand and went home together. , There are 14 missed calls above. So he said sadly that this was probably the last message he sent on social media.

  "China News Weekly" No.17, 2020

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