作者简介：Caryn Schwartz，智梦外籍主管，瓦萨学院英语文学与中文专业，成功辅导学员录取：杜克大学，瓦萨学院，圣路易斯华盛顿大学，莱斯大学，圣母大学，埃默里大学，卡内基梅隆大学，南加州大学，加州大学洛杉矶分校等美国名校。同时，Caryn热爱中文，在大学期间就到青岛参加语言文化交流。

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翻译：Ben

The internet is fully of seriously disturbing things, but one of the worst things I’ve come across in a long time is a tumblr site: Women Against Feminism. On the website, women (mostly young, mostly white) take pictures of themselves holding signs that explain why it is that they supposedly have no use for feminism. Here are some examples:

互联网充满了极其烦扰的东西，但是诸多我在很长一段时间里经历过糟糕事情中的是一个网站：女人和女权运动。网站上，女性（大部分是年轻的白人）拍下自己拿着解释为什么她们不赞同女权运动标语的照片。这里有一些例子：

“I don’t need feminism because my boyfriend treats me right.”

“我不需要女权运动因为我的男朋友对我很好。”

“I don’t need feminism because I respect men.”

“我不需要女权运动因为我尊重男性。”

“I don’t need feminism because I don’t need to bully someone to share my opinions with others.”

“我不需要女权运动因为我不需要强迫一些人和他人分享我的想法。”

“I don’t need feminism because the patriarchy doesn’t exist. The pay gap is womens(sic) choice. There is no rape culture.”

“我不需要女权运动因为父权制根本不存在，薪水差距是女性自己的选择，没有强奸文化。”

“I don’t need feminism because my son should not be made to feel less of a person simply because of his gender.”

“我不需要女权运动因为我儿子不应该因为他的性别而感觉低人一等。”

It’s hard to give one reason why these statements are wrong, simply because the women who penned them clearly have such different ideas (all badly skewed) of what feminism is. And from what I can tell, that confusion is one of the greatest detriments to feminism today. So many people dismiss feminism out of hand, or even go so far as to call themselves anti-feminists, because what they understand feminism to be is bad. It is prejudiced and divisive and completely not constructive.It is also NOT feminism.

给出一个为什么这些宣言是错的理由是困难的，仅仅因为写出清晰如此的话的女性对于什么是女权运动有不同（严重扭曲）的想法。据我所知，这个困惑也是如今损害女权运动诸多事物中的一个。这么多人反驳女权运动，甚至自称反女权主义者，因为他们认为女权主义是不好的。这是偏见和争议很大的并且绝对没有建设性的，这也同样不是女权主义。

So what is feminism? There are many, many definitions, but, for what it’s worth, I choose as my definition the one authored by bell hooks: “a movement to end sexism,sexist exploitation,and oppression.”Many people don’t really understand the connection between sexism and feminism—that one of the primary goals of feminism is to eradicate sexism. The last I checked, it isn’t sexist for someone’s boyfriend to “treat [her] right.” It isn’t sexist for young boys and girls to have a healthy sense of self-worth, and it certainly isn’t sexist to respect men—quite the opposite, since sexism goes both ways;that last author is literally giving a reason for why she does need feminism.

所以什么是女权运动？有太多太多的定义，但是选一个有价值的，我选择我自己的定义，来自贝尔·胡克斯：“一个结束性别歧视，性别剥削，压迫的运动。”很多人无法理解性别歧视和女权运动之间的联系——女权运动众多主要目标之一就是消除性别歧视。上一个说到的，某人的男朋友“对（她）很好”，年轻的男孩女孩有一个健康的自我价值观，尊重男性，这些都不是男性至上主义——正好相反，因为性别歧视有两种方向；那个作者字面上给了为什么她需要女权运动的原因。

One common thread that most of the statements I cited share is this: they see feminism as something that excludes and insults, not something that includes and uplifts.Whether it’s women complaining that feminism shames them for wearing makeup, or men saying that feminism writes them all off as rapists and oppressors, these are all essentially the same complaint: that feminism is only for a small,specific sect of people (women, actually). And that belief—that misconception—does serious harm to the movement.

我引用的大部分宣言都有一个普遍的导向：他们认为女权运动是一种排他和侮辱性的运动，并不是一种包容和道德向上的事物。无论是女性抱怨女权运动让她们戴上面具而感到羞愧还是男性声称女权主义者批判他们为强奸犯和压迫者，这些大体上都是相同的抱怨：女权运动只适合小而具体的人群（事实上为女性）。这种想法——误解——对这个运动产生了极度的危害。

Let’s look at it another way. The number of people who describe themselves as “against sexism”and “for equality of the sexes” should roughly match up with the number of people who describe themselves as feminists. In reality, however, those numbers do not match up—not even close. A poll done in the U.S. in 2013 revealed that only 20% of Americans (23% of women and 16% of men) consider themselves feminists. This is compared to the 82% of respondents who said they believe that: "men and women should be social, political, and economic equals." Doesn’t make much sense, does it?

让我们从另一个方向来看。自我描述为“反对性别歧视”和“为了性别平等”的人群数量应该粗略的等同于自我描述为女权主义者的人群数量。但是，现实中，这两个数字并不相同——甚至不接近。2013年在美国的一项投票统计显露仅仅20%的美国人（23%女性和16%男性）认为自己是女权主义者。和82%声称相信“男性和女性应该在社会上，政治上和经济上平等”的被调查者相比，说不通，对吧？

One reason I think hooks’s definition of feminism is so great is that it includes people of any gender and background. Anyone can (and should!) “desire to end sexism,sexist exploitation, and oppression.” Yet, somewhere along the way, feminism developed a terrible PR problem. The proportion of that poll’s respondents that thought “feminism” was a negative term is 32%—a figure that both does and doesnot surprise me. It does surprise me because, in my mind, feminism is not a controversial cause. On the other hand, it doesn’t surprise me because I’ve grown up in the same world as these girls who now hold up signs condemning feminism. Many ardent feminists—including myself—spent adolescence denying their own beliefs. As much as I wish this weren’t the case, 17-year-old me would unquestionably have beengrouped not with the 20% of Americans who embrace the feminist label, but with the 80% who don’t.

我认为胡克斯定义如此之好的一个原因是它包括了任何性别和背景的人群。任何人都可以（应该！）“渴望结束性别歧视，性别剥削，和压迫”。但是，这条路上的某一处，女权运动产生一个糟糕的PR问题。那个投票中32%的人群部分认为“女权运动”是个负面的术语——一个既让我震惊又让我觉得正常的特点。它的确让我震惊因为，在我脑海中，女权运动不是一个有争议的原因。另一方面，让我觉得正常因为我成长于和那些举着标语谴责女权运动女孩生长的同一个世界里。很多热枕的女权主义者——包括我自己——把青春期花在否定自我信仰上。就像我希望这不是问题一样，17岁的我不容置疑的不会属于那个接受女权主义定义20%的人群而是那不接受的80%。

Although I take issue with the Women Against Feminism tumblr, Icomfort myself by remembering that most of the posters on that site aren’t actually against feminism; they are only against a distorted version of it. And that’s precisely the reason we need more people to identify as feminists. When a pro-life, stay at home mother explains to people why she’s a feminist, she is widening the perception of feminism. When a high-powered, macho businessman proudly tells people why he is a feminist, he is changing the way people understand feminism. When a Chinese high school student boldly embraces the feminist label, she or he is helping to rehabilitate the image of the movement.

尽管我不同意女性反对女权主义，我安慰自己大部分张贴者并不是真正意义上反对女权运动；他们只是反对女权运动一个扭曲的部分。这也是为什么我们需要更多自我定义为女权主义者人群的原因。当一个反对堕胎呆在家里的母亲向人群解释为什么她是一位女权主义者时，她拓宽了女权运动的感观。当一个高产，大男子气概的商人骄傲的告诉人们为什么他是一位女权主义者时，他正在改变人们所理解的女权运动。当一个中国高中生大胆地接受女权主义者的标识时，他或她正在帮助恢复这项运动的名誉。

The truth is, we do need feminism, and feminism needs you!

事实是，我们的确需要女权主义，女权主义也需要你！

Some other great links relating to feminism and the Women Against Feminism tumblr:

http://vagendamagazine.com/2014/07/how-not-to-react-to-anti-feminist-women/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/feminism-poll_n_3094917.html(a summary of the poll results mentioned in my post)

http://womenagainstfeminism.tumblr.com/(the original site)

http://whoneedsfeminism.tumblr.com/(same idea, but voicing the opposite sentiment)

http://confusedcatsagainstfeminism.tumblr.com/(this one is satire, but it made me laugh)

not specific articles, but these two websites

http://thehairpin.com/

http://the-toast.net/—both feature funny,interesting articles with a feminist slant

And some feminist books andessays (a mix of theory and novels) for those who want to learn more:

-hooks, bell. Feminism is for Everybody.*

-Sartrapi, Marjane. Embroideries.

-Moran, Caitlin. How To Be a Woman.

-Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique.*

-Sandberg, Sheryl. Lean In. (but read in conjunction with this great article, again by hooks: thefeministwire.com/2013/10/17973/)

-Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.*

-Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own.

-Frye, Marilyn. “Oppression.”*

-Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale.*

*I have the ebook files or PDFs of these items. Feel free to email me at caryn@zhimeng.hk if you would like any of them.

文中生词

feminism：a doctrine that advocates equal rightsfor women女权主义，女权运动

detriments：a damage or loss损害

prejudiced：emanating from a person's emotions andprejudices偏见的

divisive：dissenting (especially dissenting withthe majority opinion)分裂的，不和的

exploitation：an act that exploits or victimizessomeone (treats them unfairly)剥削

oppression：the act of subjugating by cruelty压迫

eradicate：destroy completely, as if down to theroots消除

misconception：an incorrect conception误解

controversial：marked by or capable of arousingcontroversy有争议的

prolife：advocating full legal protection ofembryos and fetuses (especially opposing the legalization of induced abortions)反堕胎的

macho：used of men; markedly masculine inappearance or manner大男子气概的

boldly：in a bold manner大胆的

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