Christopher Bell: Bring on the female superheroes!
克里斯多夫·贝尔: 让我们带上女超人!
Dr. Christopher Bell specializes in the study of popular culture, focusing on the ways in which race, class and gender intersect in different forms of media. Full bio
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for a grown man in our society to say.
成年男性而言未免有些奇怪。
在思考小女孩的事,
thinking about little girls,
because I have one.
因为我有一个女儿吧。
you would really like her.
我想你们会喜欢她的。
the word I find myself saying most
我发现我说的最多的词是
和良好的身体协调性。
and good body control.
back-to-back-to-back state champion
halfway to a black belt.
重120公斤的大汉站在你面前,
and 265 pounds stands in front of you
that's a reflection of him.
was a two-time all-state soccer player
代表全州参加足球比赛,
volleyball player,
我很喜欢她这点。
in a cloak of flames
(译注:来源于权力的游戏)
seen "Game of Thrones,"
the worst parents who ever lived.
called the Mother of Dragons,
and she loves it.
character is Groot.
(星球大战中的重要组织)
(绝地武士的宿敌)
that I have to ask.
my daughter dresses up,
(都是星球大战中的人物)
she dresses up as a boy?
of female superheroes.
所有女英雄的周边产品都哪儿去了?
where is all the female superhero stuff?
Where are the toys?
plays when she dresses up,
in my own line of work,
被赋予意识形态。
are taught ideologies.
一名男性或女性的意义,
to be a man or a woman,
yourself in public,
又彬彬有礼的人的意义。
and have good manners.
that make us up as a people.
组成了我们大家。
了解到,我们对于其他人的认知,
what we know about other people
media-saturated society.
媒体无处不在的社会中。
aspect of your human existence
基本生理机能之外的
to the food that you eat
your relationships
所使用的特有的语法——
you use to formulate thought --
about other people and about the world
对于其他人和世界的认知,
是通过媒体的。
distribution technologies and devices.
技术和设备而存在,
is tied to financial gain,
were owned by 50 companies.
全美国百分之九十的媒体。
doing something is a lot of companies.
共营意味着很多个公司。
锐减到了六个,
AOL Time Warner,
AOL时代华纳公司,
Viacom and the CBS Corporation.
维亚康姆以及CBS公司。
nine out of every 10 movies you watch,
接触过的绝大多数电影,
nine out of every 10 songs,
绝大多数的歌曲,
90 percent of American media,
全美国百分之九十的媒体,
它们对你们产生了多大的影响?
over what you're allowed to see every day?
that media can't tell us what to think,
媒体并不能告诉我们去想什么,
而且做得很糟糕。
它们想要让你想的东西,
to think what they want you to think.
他们想要让你思考的事情,
the things they want you to think about,
它们不想让你思考的事情。
the things they don't you to think about.
是如何奏效的呢?
这六家公司中的一家。
Company for a second.
迪士尼公司的原因是,
the Walt Disney Company is this.
看过迪士尼电影的人吗?
who has never seen a Disney movie?
what we call 100 percent penetration
用我们的话说,它百分之百的
has been exposed to Disney,
向女孩儿们出售公主玩偶赚钱。
of its money selling princesses to girls.
和我的女儿一样,
your daughter is interested in,
美元收购卢卡斯影业,
for the sum of four billion dollars,
the Disney stores with Han Solo
and Luke Skywalker and Yoda
就迅速占据了迪斯尼商店。
(同为星球大战人物)。
公主会扰乱我们对
messes up the public pedagogy
把莱娅公主商品化。
merchandise in the store,
the Princess Leia stuff?"
merchandise in the store."
他们在Twitter上
and they took to Twitter
#我们想要莱娅。
那不是我们的本意。
"Wait, that's not what we meant.
相关商品,但我们会有的。”
merchandise yet, but we will."
到了2015年,
最近去过迪斯尼商店,
as I recently have,
items there are in the Disney Store?
不打算把莱娅公主放进商店。
of putting Princess Leia in the store.
因为那其实是他们在2009年,
because we found out that was their policy
顷售公主玩偶赚了一大笔,
selling princesses to girls,
to make money from boys.
更适合男孩们的吗?
than superheroes?
to Captain America and to Thor,
no one had ever even heard of.
at selling superheroes.
名叫《银河守护者》的影片。
called "Guardians of the Galaxy."
should not work.
一般都没人听说过这些英雄。
except for comic book nerds like me.
是一棵会说话的树。
一个拟人化的浣熊。
is an anthropomorphic raccoon.
《银河守护者》大赚了一笔。
off of "Guardians of the Galaxy."
她的名字是加美拉。
her name is Gamora.
打斗起来和忍者一样的形象,
and fights like a ninja,
by a beautiful black woman,
去给女儿买加美拉的周边商品。
I went to buy my daughter Gamora stuff,
一件十分有趣的事情。
I learned a very interesting thing.
买一个加美拉书包,
as "some" of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
应该标成《银河守护者》中的“某些人”。
she wasn't on it,
of Gamora right here,
of the actual merchandise on that shelf,
出现在任何商品上。
#加美拉去哪儿了,
with the hashtag #WheresGamora,
粉丝们一样。
across the world,
I wasn't even really that surprised,
时候我也经历过了。
when Disney had released "The Avengers."
复联的新续集《奥创纪元》,
a new Avengers movie, the "Age of Ultron,"
而是两位女超级英雄,
but two female superheroes,
actresses in America, plays Black Widow,
不同的漫威电影,
but five different Marvel movies,
关于黑寡妇的产品。
of Black Widow merchandise available.
寻找黑寡妇的服饰,
and look for a Black Widow costume,
美国队长,绿巨人,
Captain America and The Incredible Hulk.
(钢铁侠的好朋友)
in the movie that long.
像许多人那样贴个标签,
with the hashtag, as many people did,
行为感到疲惫了。
复联专用战斗机场景的游戏,
with the Cycle Blast Quinjet play set,
冲出了飞行中的战斗机,
rides a motorcycle out of a moving jet
it happened in the movie,
with a male figure.
还有一群电影工作室
and a bunch of movie studios
over 30 feature-length films
将会由女性独立领导。
will have female solo leads.
都是有女性形象的,
in the rest of these movies,
they will be love interests,
we learn through media,
即使她很坚强,
my daughter that even if she is strong
打斗起来像个忍者,
and fights like a ninja,
加美拉那样被忽视,
儿子女儿们也不公平。
to your sons and daughters either.
她的个性有点儿像假小子,
and she has a little tomboy in her,
a terrible thing to call a girl.
这些定义你们的东西,
those traits that define you,
男孩那儿暂时接过来的。
for a little while from boys.
she's going to take in her life
因为假小子的性格而感到
因为在这个社会当中,
because in our society,
被认为是额外的优势。
这样的小男孩儿。
一名小男孩儿,他今年11岁。
He's 11 years old,
most in the world
成千上万的孩子们一样,
Friendship is Magic,"
《小马驹之友谊魔法》。
across America.
针对5-9岁的小女孩,
ages five to nine,
Friendship is Magic."
learning in this feminine,
努力工作,努力玩耍,
and to work hard and to party hard
接触这些死板的概念。
these wussified concepts to boys.
在Mike身上找茬儿,
pick on Mike and they beat him up
Mike回到家,
from the top bunk of his bed.
也不愿被人说喜欢女孩的东西。
than thought of as liking stuff for girls.
那是我们的错。
That is our fault.
不能让女超人的形象
so that the only female superheroes
可爱的粉嘟嘟的T恤上。
and cut for girls.
一些人回复我说:
people said to me,
然后我说:“是吗?”
And I said, "Oh really?"
(Target百货公司)宣布,
gendering their toy aisles.
支持塔吉特的时候,
patting Target on the back,
iconic scenes in "Star Wars: A New Hope"
最具标志性的一幕:
to the Dark Lord of the Sith,
replaced by Luke.
on the back too much.
再把万圣节服饰性别化了。
going to gender its Halloween costumes,
只印男性超级英雄,
are of male superheroes,
who you have wearing them?"
芭比娃娃的美泰公司,
a line of DC superhero girls.
超能英雄少女组合。
wanted to see in dolls,
那样就可以作一些超人动作。
so they can do superhero stuff.
for your daughters,
play with and as female superheroes
with and as male superheroes.
who goes to the store
闪过一个小的流程图,
或是女孩儿买这种玩具,
this toy for a boy or a girl,
因为其中只有一个问题:
because it only has one question on it.
需要用到性器官吗?”
operated with you genitals?"
在我的明天中,
of the future, and in my future,
最重要的是平等的被象征。
equally represented.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christopher Bell - Media studies scholarDr. Christopher Bell specializes in the study of popular culture, focusing on the ways in which race, class and gender intersect in different forms of media.
Why you should listen
Dr. Christopher Bell is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS).
At UCCS, Bell teaches both theory and methodology courses in critical analysis of popular culture, rhetorical theory, representation theory and mass media. His academic books include American Idolatry: Celebrity, Commodity and Reality Television (McFarland 2010), Hermione Granger Saves the World! (McFarland 2012), Legilimens! Perspectives in Harry Potter Studies (Cambridge Scholars 2013), From Here to Hogwarts (McFarland 2015) and Wizards vs. Muggles (McFarland 2016).
For more than ten years, Bell has been a featured professional speaker on a variety of college campuses, both large and small, nationally touring on issues of race, class and gender in the media. In what little spare time is left over, Bell is the author of the children's books Do Not Open the Door! and Do Not Look Under the Rug!, a competitive gamer (competing on regional and international circuits), and he travels with his wife and daughter.
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