《隐藏人物》：NASA杰出女性告诉你，什么是真正的女权

声音简介：最近Papi酱孩子没有随母性被批不是女权的热搜想必大家都有了解了，今天我们也来聊聊什么是女权Feminism。有一部经典电影《隐藏人物》Hidden Figures很好地诠释了这一点。

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The movie Hidden Figures is based on true stories. It tells the story of three brilliant African-American women, Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, working at NASA.

They served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of an astronaut into orbit and guaranteeing his safe return.

影片讲的是发生在20世纪60年代的真实故事。三位黑人女性和种族、性别偏见作斗争，最终在航人飞行载人火箭中出色完成任务，最后实现了各自的理想的故事。

故事背景和《绿皮书》是同一时期，绿皮书的黑人男主也有参演。

故事中的Katherine是从小天赋异禀的数学家。

She works as a computer at NASA. But the majority there are white men, and they do not respect her at all, just like other white people in the society.

而不光是他们，在当时社会的其他男性，甚至对她有仰慕之情、后来成了丈夫的Colonel Johnson，一开始对Katherine这样一位在NASA工作的女性也有歧视。

When Johnson asks Katherine what she does at NASA, Katherine says, "we calculate the mathematics necessary to enable launch and landing for the space program."

But Johnson is shocked. He says, "That's pretty heady stuff. They let women handle that sort of.."

Hearing this, Katherine gets angry, and replies: I will have you know I was the first Negro female student at West Virginia University Graduate School. On any given day, I analyze the manometer levels for air displacement, friction, and velocity, and compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root, and lately, Analytic Geometry, by hand.

我希望你知道，我是西弗吉尼亚大学研究生院的第一位黑人女学生。每天我都会分析压力计的空气位移，摩擦力和速度，并通过余弦，平方根以及最近的"解析几何"手动计算一万多次。

There are twenty bright, highly capable Negro women in the West Computing Group, and we're proud to be doing our part for the country. So, yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson, and it's not because we wear skirts. It's because we wear glasses.

我们组里有20名聪明的黑人妇女，我们为能为国家做出自己的贡献感到自豪。 所以，是的，他们让女性在NASA做些事情，这不是因为我们穿裙子。 而是因为我们戴眼镜。

言下之意自己是在用智力、努力，而不是样貌，赢得了自己的应得的东西。

She is also the first woman to attend the briefings at NASA.

Her evil colleague Paul Stafford tells her that, "There is no protocol for women attending a briefing." --由《生活大爆炸》里的谢耳朵饰演的反派同事告诉Katherine说，NASA从来没有过让女性参加简报会议的协定。

但Katherine却回答说There's no protocol for a man circling the Earth either, sir. 男性能飞上太空也没有相关的草拟协定啊，也是第一例。并通过说服大boss为自己赢得了机会。

最后也是Katherine在关键时刻为保障宇航员安全返回提供了数据，成为了NASA一名杰出的计算师。

NASA后来甚至建了一座以她的名字命名的大楼表彰她的突出贡献。

影片中另一位很擅长数学的女性是Mary Jackson。

In the movie, Mary Jackson is another African American woman who has superb mathematic skills, and dreams to be an engineer.

But it seems impossible for a black woman to be an engineer at NASA at that time. Mary says, "every time we have a chance to get ahead, they move the finish line."

每回当她觉得梦想就要近一步了，别人就会把终点线移走。似乎对于一个黑人女性来说，成为NASA工程师是一件不可能的事。

直到后来在同事Karl的鼓励下，她决定通过打官司为自己赢得去一个全都是白人男性学生的课程的学习机会，以此通过了NASA工程师的准入门槛。

She says to the judge at the court:

Before Alan Shepard sat on top of a rocket, no other American had ever touched space. And now, he will forever be remembered as the US Navy man from New Hampshire, the first to touch the stars. And I, sir, I plan on being an engineer at NASA, but I can't do that without taking classes at that all-white high school, and I can't change the color of my skin. So I have no choice but to be the first.

我没有选择，只能成为第一个。就像在Alan Shepard登上太空之前，也没有人相信会有人类可以登上太空。--I have no choice but to be the first.

最后Mary成为了NASA第一位黑人女性工程师。

Mary和Katherine的好姐妹Dorothy Vaughan，也通过抗争成为了NASA第一位黑人女性主管。

They are fighting so hard to earn the respect from men.

So, going back to the question, what is feminism?

According to wikipedia, feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

维基百科上说，女权主义是一系列旨在界定，建立和实现性别平等的政治运动和意识形态。

就像影片里的三位女性，通过自己的努力，赢得了没有因性别而被区别对待的权利，也赢得了尊重。这才是女权，而不在于非要强调具体表现形式。

就像印度电影《他和她的故事》里面，男主因为梦想做家庭主妇就被遭到歧视，可谁规定了女性做家庭主妇就不违和，男性就一定违和？这些都只是表现形式，只要在男女双方彼此尊重的前提下，都是值得尊重的。

So quite simply, feminism is about all genders having equal rights and opportunities, but not about commanding women or men to do certain things. Do you agree? Share your opinions with us.

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