Michael Kimmel: Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included
麥可·基梅爾: 為什麼性別平等對大家都好 - 包含男性
The author of "Angry White Men," Michael Kimmel is a pre-eminent scholar of men and masculinity. Full bio
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to support gender equality.
with gender equality?
as a middle class white man.
中產階級男性的身分在此演講。
a middle class white man.
中產階級的白人男性。
when I was in graduate school,
我在讀研究所時發生的,
got together one day,
there's an explosion
正如爆炸般蔓延,
in feminist theory,
typically do in a situation like that.
一般在此情況下會做的事,
11 women and me got together.
11位女性聚在一起。
and have a conversation about it.
的文章,然後討論。
that changed my life forever.
的一個互動。
and one was black.
very anachronistic now --
face the same oppression as women.
都因女人的身分受到同樣的壓迫。
situated in patriarchy,
of intuitive solidarity or sisterhood."
有種團結或姐妹意識。」
"I'm not so sure.
says to the white woman,
and you look in the mirror,
"You see, that's the problem for me.
那就是問題所在。
and I look in the mirror," she said,
race is invisible. You don't see it."
但對你來說,種族是隱形的。你看不見。」
something really startling.
to those who have it."
to the white people sitting in this room,
你們不用在生活中的每個時刻
every split second of our lives.
to those who have it.
the only man in this group,
我心想:「喔,糟了。」
"Well what was that reaction?"
in the morning and I look in the mirror,
早上起來照鏡子時,
I have no race, no class, no gender.
沒有種族、沒有階級、沒有性別。
I became a middle class white man,
我才成為一個中產階級白人,
were not about other people,
kept it invisible to me for so long.
一直看不見它們。
this story ends 30 years ago
就結束在30年前的那個小組討論,
at my university where I teach.
both teach the sociology of gender course
她和我教同一堂性別社會學的課,
for me when I teach.
for her when she teaches.
to give a guest lecture,
looks up and says,
my colleague opened her mouth,
based on gender in the United States,"
you'd say that.
"Wow, is that interesting.
「哇,這很有趣,
『結構性』怎麼拼?」
How do you spell 'structural'?"
男人經常打領帶的原因。
men so often wear ties.
disembodied Western rationality,
of disembodied Western rationality
還有什麼比這個更好的信物 -
and the other end points to the genitals?
另一端則指著生殖器的東西?
to support gender equality.
about gender equality,
that's fair, that's just,
the lightning bolt goes off,
yes, gender equality,"
to mansplain to you your oppression.
對你們進行壓迫。
something akin to the cavalry,
to our attention, ladies,
提出這個引起我們的注意,
to call 'premature self-congratulation.'
「過早沾沾自喜」的症狀。
that actively resists gender equality,
as something that is detrimental to men.
對男人有害的東西。
opposite four white men.
面對四個白人男性。
I wrote, 'Angry White Men.'
這本書的起源。
white men in America,
in the workplace.
about how they were qualified for jobs,
they were really angry.
is I want you to hear the title
是想讓大家聽聽這個節目的名稱。
qualified for promotions,
just one question for you guys,
one word in the title.
it was your job?
'A Black Woman Got the Job?'
『一位黑人女性得到那份工作』?
men's sense of entitlement,
和男人的權力感有所衝突,
why so many men resist gender equality.
為何這麼多人打壓性別平等。
is a level playing field,
才是公平的競爭環境,
even a little bit,
water's rushing uphill.
greatest affirmative action program
平權活動中的受益者。
some of the obstacles to engaging men,
一些吸引男性的阻礙,
it's right and it's just.
那是正確的、正義的事。
in our interest as men.
about what they want in their lives,
在生命中想要的東西,
for us to get the lives we want to live.
理想生活的一種方式。
that are the most gender equal
on the happiness scale.
they're all in Europe.
that are more gender equal
性別比較平等的國家
has shown conclusively
所做的研結果確切顯示
They have lower levels of attrition.
higher job satisfaction,
員工留職率、工作滿意度、
in companies is,
that's really going to be expensive, huh?"
what you have to start calculating
你得開始算算
is already costing you.
we want to live,
have changed enormously,
和過去有很大的不同,
that are animated
with their children.
their spouses, their wives,
to their careers as they are.
an illustration of this change --
能說明這個轉變的案例 -
there was a riddle that was posed to us.
to remember this riddle.
are driving on the freeway,
to the hospital emergency room,
into the hospital emergency room,
sees the boy and says,
with my 16-year old son.
進行一個小實驗,
hanging out at the house
this riddle to them,
and said, "It's his mom." Right?
"Well, he could have two dads."
「喔,他也可能有兩個爸爸。」
of how things have changed.
to be able to balance work and family.
能在工作和家庭間取得平衡。
dual-carer couples.
都能顧家的伴侶關係。
work and family with their partners.
取得工作和家庭的平衡。
our relationships,
are quite persuasive here.
的數據相當有說服力。
the data, to prove to men
數字、數據,來對男人證明
is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.
而是雙贏局面。
the process of engaging
that we use to describe what we do.
something a little bit more radical,
of absenteeism,
to be diagnosed with ADHD.
的機率較低。
to see a child psychiatrist.
to be put on medication.
to see a therapist,
with depression,
more likely to go to the gym,
比較會去健身房運動、
of marital satisfaction.
take recreational drugs less often.
較少使用娛樂性藥物。
for routine screenings.
with depression,
prescription medication.
Men's Health magazine put on its cover?
《男人健康》雜誌放上封面?
over a really long period of time,
I'll do the dishes tonight."
over a really long period of time.
put it on their cover,
將此放上封面時,
you'll love this, "Choreplay."
「家事前戲」。
is something really important,
is not a zero-sum game.
that women have identified
they say they want to live
that we say we want to live.
of the great suffrage demonstrations
偉大的選舉權遊行示威前夕,
wrote an article in a magazine,
在一本雜誌上寫了一篇文章,
of that article:
for the first time for men to be free."
讓男人的自由有可能實現。」
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michael Kimmel - SociologistThe author of "Angry White Men," Michael Kimmel is a pre-eminent scholar of men and masculinity.
Why you should listen
Sociologist Michael Kimmel is among the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world. He's the executive director of the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University, where he is also Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies.
He is the author of many books, including Manhood in America, Angry White Men, and the best seller Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. An activist for gender equality for more than 30 years, he was recently called "the world's preeminent male feminist" by the Guardian.
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