A marriage can be happy or unhappy, but it is not an achievement. We condition girls to aspire to marriage and we do not condition boys to aspire to marriage, and so there is already a terrible imbalance at the start. The girls will grow up to be women preoccupied with marriage. The boys will grow up to be men who are not preoccupied with marriage.
Why were we raised to speak in low tones about periods? To be filled with shame if our menstrual blood happened to stain our skirt? Periods are nothing to be ashamed of. Periods are normal and natural, and the human species would not be here if periods did not exist. 為什麼我們講到月經就變小聲?月經不存在,則人類也不存在。
We teach girls to be likeable, to be nice, to be false. And we do not teach boys the same. This is dangerous. Many sexual predators have capitalized on this. 我們教導女孩要討人喜歡、要做個好女孩,但我們不會這麼教育男孩。
Many girls remain silent when abused because they want to be nice. Many girls spend too much time trying to be “nice” to people who do them harm. 很多女生不張揚受虐的狀況,只因為他們想做個好女孩。很多女生花了太多時間對傷害自己的人「好一點」。
But here is a sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have been so conditioned to think of power as male that a powerful woman is an aberration. And so she is policed.
We ask of powerful women: Is she humble? Does she smile? Is she grateful enough? Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with power itself, but with women. We judge powerful women more harshly than we judge powerful men.
《Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions》 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
喜歡化妝就化妝,喜歡打扮就讓她穿得漂漂亮亮,如果沒興趣也隨她。
女性主義和女性化並不互斥。
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為什麼我們講到月經就變小聲?月經不存在,則人類也不存在。
我們教導女孩要討人喜歡、要做個好女孩,但我們不會這麼教育男孩。
很多女生不張揚受虐的狀況,只因為他們想做個好女孩。很多女生花了太多時間對傷害自己的人「好一點」。
我們對大女人比起對大男人嚴苛多了
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