Level 5-Day 15.Naomi Wolf 'A Woman's Place' (2)

词汇提示

1.archetypes 典型2.anorexia 厌食症3.bulimia 贪食症4.tithe 十一捐献5.disobedience 不服从

原文

Naomi Wolf : 'A Woman's Place' (2)

We lack archetypes for the questing young woman, her trials by fire; for how one "becomes a woman" through the chrysalis of education, the difficult passage from one book, one idea to the next.Let's refuse to have our scholarship and our gender pitted against each other.In our definition, the scholar learns woman hood and the woman learns scholarship;Plato and Djuna Barnes, mediated to their own enrichment through the eyes of the female body with its wisdoms and its gifts.I saythat you have already shown courage:Many of you graduate today in spite of the post-traumatic syndrome of acquaintance rape,which one-fourth of female students undergo.Many of you were so weakened by anorexia and bulimia that it took every ounce of your will to get your work in.You negotiated private lives through a mine field of new strains of VD and the ascending shadow of AIDS.Triumphant survivors, you have already "become women."Message No. 2 breaks the ultimate taboo for women.Ask for money in your lives.Expect it. Own it. Learn to use it.Little girls learn a debilitating fear of money - that it's not feminine to insure we are fairly paid for honest work.Meanwhile,women make 68 cents for every male dollar and half of marriages end in divorce,after which women's income drops precipitously.But whatever field your heart decides on, for god's sake get the most specialized training in it you can and hold out hard for just compensation, parental leave and child care.Resist your assignment to the class of highly competent, grossly underpaid women who run the show while others get the case - and the credit.Claim money not out of greed, but so you can tithe to women's political organizations, shelters and educational institutions.Sexist institutions won't yield power if we are just patient long enough.The only language the status quo understands is money, votes and public embarrassment.When you have equity, you have influence- as sponsors, shareholders and alumnae.Use it to open opportunities to women who deserve the chances you've had.Your B. A. does not belong to you alone, just as the earth does not belong to its present tenants alone.Your education was lent to you by women of the past, and you will give some back to living women, and to your daughters seven generations from now.Message No. 3: Never cook for or sleep with anyone who routinely puts you down.Message No. 4: Become goddesses of disobedience.Virginia Woolf once wrote that we must slay the Angel in the House, the censor within.Young women tell me of injustices, from campus rape cover ups to classroom sexism.But at the thought of confrontation, they freeze into niceness.We are told that the worst thing we can do is cause conflict, even in the service of doing right.Antigone is imprisoned.Joan of Arc burns at the stake.And someone might call us unfeminine!

翻译

娜奥米·沃尔夫:《女人的位置》(2)

我们缺乏追求的年轻女子的原型，她的考验;一个人如何通过教育的茧，从一本书、一种思想到下一种思想的艰难过渡，“成为一个女人”。

让我们拒绝把我们的学识和我们的性别对立起来。

在我们的定义中，学者学习女性气质，女性学习学术;柏拉图和Djuna Barnes，通过女性身体的智慧和天赋的眼睛来调解他们自己的丰富。

我要说的是，你们已经表现出了勇气:尽管四分之一的女学生都患有熟人强奸的创伤后综合症，但今天你们中的许多人还是毕业了。

你们中的许多人因为厌食症和暴食症而变得如此虚弱，以至于用尽了每一盎司的意志来完成你的工作。

你们在新的性病毒株和不断上升的艾滋病阴影中度过了私人生活。

胜利的幸存者们，你们已经“成为女人”了。

信息2：打破了女性的终极禁忌。

在你的生活中要钱。

期望它。拥有它。学会使用它。

小女孩学会了对金钱的一种使人衰弱的恐惧——确保我们诚实地工作得到公平的报酬并不是女性的行为。

与此同时，女性的收入为男性的68美分，一半的婚姻以离婚告终，此后女性的收入急剧下降。

但无论你决定从事什么行业，看在上帝的份上，都要尽可能接受最专业的培训，并努力争取公正的薪酬、育儿假和育儿服务。

不要把你的任务分配给那些能力出众、收入极低的女性，她们在主持这个节目，而其他人则负责案件和荣誉。

要钱不是出于贪婪，而是为了给妇女政治组织、庇护所和教育机构奉献什一税。

只要我们有足够的耐心，性别歧视的机构就不会屈服。

维持现状者唯一能理解的语言就是金钱、选票和公众尴尬。

当你拥有股权时，你就有影响力——作为赞助商、股东和校友。

用它来为那些值得拥有你所拥有的机会的女人打开机会之门。

你的学士学位并不只属于你一个人，正如地球并不只属于它现在的房客一样。

从前的妇女借给你们受教育，从今以后，你们要把教育还给活着的妇女和你们的女儿。

信息3:永远不要为那些经常让你失望的人做饭或和他上床。

信息4:成为不服从的女神。

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫(Virginia Woolf)曾写道，我们必须杀死屋里的天使和屋里的审查者。

年轻女性向我讲述了各种不公，从掩盖校园强奸案到课堂性别歧视。

但一想到要对抗，他们就变得友善起来。

我们被告知，我们能做的最糟糕的事情就是引起冲突，即使是为了做好事。

安提戈涅被囚禁。

圣女贞德被处以火刑。

有人可能会说我们没有女人味!