I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
我从不认为任何出演过我笔下角色的演员就必须永远认同我的观点。这种想法很荒谬,就像我至今还该听从二十一岁时老板的意见来决定自己现在的立场一样。
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
艾玛·沃特森和合作演员们完全有权利支持性别认同理念。这些想法是受法律保护的,我也从来不希望他们因持有不同观点而面临失业、暴力甚至是S亡的威胁。
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
然而,尤其是艾玛和丹,在过去几年里他们一直明确表现出来,认为曾经与我的合作关系赋予了他们一种特殊的权利——甚至是一种义务——在公开场合批评我和我的观点。即使演完《哈利·波特》这么多年,他们始终把自己当成是我所创造的世界的事实发言人
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
当你从一群人十岁起就认识他们,你很难摆脱某种保护欲。直到最近,回想起在巨大可怖的影棚里需要被温柔引导台词的孩子们,关于他们的记忆仍然在我心头挥之不去。在过去几年里,我多次拒绝了记者邀请我对艾玛发表评论,特别是在《J.K.罗琳的女巫审判》节目中。讽刺的是,当时我告诉制作人,我不希望因为我说的话导致艾玛被追责网暴。
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
附件视频里节目主持人特别提到了艾玛那段“所有女巫”的发言,那对我来说确实是一个转折点,但后来发生的事比演讲本身更让我寒心。艾玛当时托人转交给我一张手写纸条(她明明有我的电话号码),上面只有一句话:“对于您正在经历的一切,我深感抱歉”。那段时间,针对我的S亡、QJ和酷刑威胁达到了顶峰,我的个人安保措施不得不大幅升级,我终日为家人的安全忧心忡忡。艾玛刚在公众场合火上浇完油,却以为一句轻飘飘的关切就能让我相信她本质上很同情我,是善意的。
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
与那些始终被财富与名声包裹着、从未体验过真实人生的幸运儿一样,艾玛对现实生活的了解极为有限,以至于她根本意识不到自己的无知。她永远不需要栖身收容所,也绝不会被安置在公立医院的男女混合病房,我敢说她从小都没用过商业街的公共更衣室。她所谓的“公共洗手间”仅供她一人使用,门外还有保安站岗。她有没有在市政游泳馆新设的混合更衣间里脱过衣服?她会需要在拒绝提供全女性服务的公立QJ危机中心求助吗?她会与一个自我认同为女性的男性QJ犯同住一间牢房吗?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
我14岁时并非千万富翁。在写那本让艾玛成名的书时,我的生活贫困潦倒。正因如此,从亲身经历出发,我深知艾玛如此热衷参与的践踏女性权利的行为,对没有她那些特权的女性和女孩意味着什么。
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
最大的讽刺在于,如果不是艾玛在最近的采访中宣称她爱我、珍惜我,我可能永远不会如此直白地回应。我怀疑她改变策略只是因为发现痛骂我不再像过去那么时髦了。
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.
成年人不能一边与一场频频叫嚣“处决旧友”的激进运动保持亲近,一边又奢求得到这位旧友的疼爱,仿佛对方是他们的母亲一般。艾玛有权不同意我的观点,也可以公开讨论她对我的感受——但我也有同样的权利,而我现在终于决定行使它。
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