Michael Kimmel: Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included
Michael Kimmel: Kodėl lyčių lygybė naudinga ir vyrams?
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.
palaikyti lyčių lygybę.
with gender equality?
kalbame apie moteris.
as a middle class white man.
baltasis.
a middle class white man.
when I was in graduate school,
kai buvau magistrantas universitete.
got together one day,
studentų būrys
there's an explosion
in feminist theory,
apie feministinę teoriją,
typically do in a situation like that.
studentams esant tokiai situacijai.
11 women and me got together.
susitikdavome kiekvieną savaitę.
and have a conversation about it.
teorijas ir diskutuodavome apie tai.
that changed my life forever.
pakeitusį dialogą.
and one was black.
kita – juodaodė.
very anachronistic now --
itin anachroniškai –
face the same oppression as women.
situated in patriarchy,
panašų patriarchato poveikį,
of intuitive solidarity or sisterhood."
susivienija ar išgyvena seserystės jausmą.
"I'm not so sure.
says to the white woman,
and you look in the mirror,
„Aš matau moterį.“
"You see, that's the problem for me.
„Matai, man yra kiek kebliau,
and I look in the mirror," she said,
race is invisible. You don't see it."
bet tu to nepastebi“.
something really startling.
to those who have it."
jos nepastebi“ – pasakė ji.
to the white people sitting in this room,
every split second of our lives.
to those who have it.
the only man in this group,
grupėje,
"Well what was that reaction?"
„Ir kokia buvo reakcija?“
in the morning and I look in the mirror,
I have no race, no class, no gender.
nei rasės, klasės ar lyties.
I became a middle class white man,
viduriniosios klasės baltuoju,
were not about other people,
su kitais žmonėmis,
kept it invisible to me for so long.
nepastebėti to gana ilgai.
this story ends 30 years ago
at my university where I teach.
kuri neseniai įvyko universitete.
both teach the sociology of gender course
sociologiją
for me when I teach.
for her when she teaches.
to give a guest lecture,
looks up and says,
žvilgtelėjęs sako:
my colleague opened her mouth,
based on gender in the United States,"
you'd say that.
"Wow, is that interesting.
How do you spell 'structural'?"
žodį „struktūrinis?“
men so often wear ties.
vyrai ryši kaklaraiščius.
disembodied Western rationality,
atskirtąjį vakarietišką racionalumą,
of disembodied Western rationality
vakarietiško racionalumo ženklas,
and the other end points to the genitals?
ir pasibaigiantis ties genitalijomis.
to support gender equality.
vyrus palaikyti lyčių lygybę.
about gender equality,
apie lyčių lygybę,
that's fair, that's just,
the lightning bolt goes off,
yes, gender equality,"
to mansplain to you your oppression.
mąstymą apie jūsų engimą.
something akin to the cavalry,
tarsi kariai:
to our attention, ladies,
į tai dėmesį –
to call 'premature self-congratulation.'
savęs pasveikinimo sindromu.
that actively resists gender equality,
nusiteikusi prieš lyčių lygybę
as something that is detrimental to men.
opposite four white men.
priešingo požiūrio baltaisiais vyrais.
I wrote, 'Angry White Men.'
„Pikti baltieji vyrai“.
white men in America,
baltieji Amerikoje, yra
in the workplace.
darbovietėje.
about how they were qualified for jobs,
tinkami darbams,
they were really angry.
is I want you to hear the title
kvalifikacijas,
qualified for promotions,
to negavę.
just one question for you guys,
one word in the title.
it was your job?
kad ši darbo vieta yra jūsų?
'A Black Woman Got the Job?'
„Baltaodė gavo šią darbo vietą“
men's sense of entitlement,
kad jiems kas savaime priklauso,
why so many men resist gender equality.
kodėl tiek daug vyrų
is a level playing field,
kad visiems taisyklės yra vienodos,
even a little bit,
water's rushing uphill.
prieš srovę.
labai aiškiai:
yra pasipelnę
greatest affirmative action program
pozityvios diskriminacijos įvykio
some of the obstacles to engaging men,
siekiant įtraukti vyrus,
it's right and it's just.
ir teisėta.
in our interest as men.
vyrams.
about what they want in their lives,
apie tai, ko jie nori pasiekti gyvenime,
for us to get the lives we want to live.
norimo gyvenimo.
that are the most gender equal
labiausiai klesti lyčių lygybė
on the happiness scale.
they're all in Europe.
that are more gender equal
kur labiau laikomasi lygių teisių,
has shown conclusively
tyrimai rodo,
They have lower levels of attrition.
ir jų pasitraukimo iš darbo rodikliai.
higher job satisfaction,
jo keisti kitu.
in companies is,
that's really going to be expensive, huh?"
ar ne?“
what you have to start calculating
suskaičiuoti,
is already costing you.
we want to live,
have changed enormously,
pasikeitė,
that are animated
with their children.
their spouses, their wives,
sutuoktinės, žmonos
to their careers as they are.
an illustration of this change --
there was a riddle that was posed to us.
užminta tokia mįslė.
to remember this riddle.
prisimindami.
are driving on the freeway,
to the hospital emergency room,
į ligoninės reanimaciją.
into the hospital emergency room,
sees the boy and says,
ir taria:
sūnus.“
with my 16-year old son.
su savo 16-os metų sūnumi.
hanging out at the house
grupelę draugų,
this riddle to them,
and said, "It's his mom." Right?
„Jis galėjo turėti du tėčius.“
"Well, he could have two dads."
of how things have changed.
to be able to balance work and family.
šeimos ir darbo pusiausvyrą.
dual-carer couples.
work and family with their partners.
darbo ir šeimos pusiausvyrą.
our relationships,
are quite persuasive here.
ir sociologų duomenis.
the data, to prove to men
įrodo vyrams,
is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.
lošimas – čia laimi abu.
the process of engaging
that we use to describe what we do.
mūsų veiklą frazės.
something a little bit more radical,
kiek radikalesnio –
of absenteeism,
to be diagnosed with ADHD.
to see a child psychiatrist.
to be put on medication.
vaikų priežiūrą,
priežiūrą,
to see a therapist,
with depression,
more likely to go to the gym,
dažniau lanko sporto klubą
of marital satisfaction.
priežiūrą,
take recreational drugs less often.
narkotikų;
for routine screenings.
profilaktinės patikros.
with depression,
prescription medication.
priežiūrą,
keturių išvadų
Men's Health magazine put on its cover?
žurnalo „Men's Health“ viršelio?
over a really long period of time,
I'll do the dishes tonight."
over a really long period of time.
viršelio
put it on their cover,
you'll love this, "Choreplay."
„Buitinis viliotinis“.
is something really important,
is not a zero-sum game.
that women have identified
įvardino moterys,
they say they want to live
kokio jos nori,
that we say we want to live.
kaip mes norime.
of the great suffrage demonstrations
demonstracijos išvakarėse,
wrote an article in a magazine,
of that article:
for the first time for men to be free."
pirmą kartą pasijusti laisviems“.
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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