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Part 1: Feminism Is Not Man-hating.
[1]（略读）
Today we are launching a campaign called “HeForShe.” I am reaching out to you because I need your help. We want to end gender inequality—and to do that, we need everyone to be involved.
[2]（略读）
This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN: we want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender equality. And we don’t just want to talk about it, but make sure it is tangible.
galvanize
/'ɡælvənaɪz/
vt. 激起某人行动起来
[3] （略读）
I was appointed six months ago and the more I have spoken about feminism, the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.
appointed
/əpɔɪntɪd/
adj. 指定的,约定的
[4]（略读）
For the record, feminism by definition is: “The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.”
[5]（略读）
I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago. When I was eight, I was confused at being called “bossy,” because I wanted to direct the plays we would put on for our parents—but the boys were not. When at 14, I started being sexualized by certain elements of the press. When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their sports teams because they didn’t want to appear “muscly.”When at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings.
bossy 像老板一样的，喜欢指挥人，专横强硬，控制欲强
muscly 肌肉发达的。
名词+y结尾：snowy, noisy, healthy
[6]（略读）
I decided I was a feminist, and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are choosing not to identify as feminists. Apparently I am among the ranks of women, whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive even. Why is the word such an uncomfortable one?
Part 2: My Story
[7]（精读）
I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights. No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.
译文：
我来自英国，并认为身为女性，我理应和男性同行获得一样的报酬。我认为我应该能自己给自己做主。我认为我所代表的女性们，应该参与政治，以及国家的政策制定。我认为在社会上，我理应获得和男性一样的尊重。但遗憾的是，世界上没有一个国家能使所有的女性都能获得上述权利。 世界上没有一个国家能说，他们已经实现了性别平等。
No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.
yet，否定句中，暗指这件事情还没有发生。
have yet to do , 否定意思，你从没有做
= have never done, 完成时态，以后也不会发生了
She has yet to spend a weekend with her son/ travel with her friends.
[8]（略读）
These rights I consider to be human rights but I am one of the lucky ones. My life is a sheer privilege, because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didn’t assume I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influencers were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today. They may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists who are changing the world today. And we need more of those.
sheer
[ʃɪə(r)]
adj.完全的; 十足的
privilege
/'prɪvlɪdʒ/
n. 特权, 特别待遇, 特殊荣幸
sheer privilege
完全是幸运，纯粹特权
inadvertent
/ˌɪnəd'vɝtəntli/
adj. 粗心大意的, 因疏忽造成的, 非故意的
[9]（略读）
And if you still hate the word—it is not the word that is important, but the idea and the ambition behind it. Because not all women have received the same rights that I have. In fact, statistically, very few have been.
Part 3: Your Issue Too
[10]（略读）
In 1995, Hilary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women’s rights. Sadly many of the things she wanted to change are still a reality today. But what stood out for me the most was that only 30 per cent of her audience were male. How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation? Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation.
Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation.
大场合: 颁奖典礼，庆功会，或者婚礼酒席，私人聚会，演讲致辞所用
英文致辞的致酒词相关礼仪知识点的，toast speech
第一，在主人之后举杯祝福
第二，看大家酒杯中有没有饮料
第三，举起酒杯至腰部，一句话开场白，然后等大家举起再继续说下去
第四，祝福语时，杯子高举至眼睛
第五，最后向被祝福的人to monica/ somebody，或 cheers 干杯时，杯子举过头顶
[11]（精读）
Gender equality is your issue too. Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society, despite my needing his presence as a child as much as my mother’s. I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for fear it would make them look less of a man—in fact in the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20-49 years of age, eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality either.
译文
性别平等也是你们的议题（与你们切身相关）。因为直至今日，我看到，社会远远低估了我父亲作为家长所发挥到的作用，尽管对于幼时的我来说，他的存在和母亲同等重要。我看到，男性青年们因为害怕自己显得不够“男子汉”，即便内心饱受痛苦也窘于寻找外界帮助——而实际情况是，在英国，自杀是20~49岁男性的第一杀手，超过了交通事故、癌症、冠心病造成的死亡数。我看到，因为人们对“男性成功”的扭曲观念，使得男性同胞们而变得脆弱，缺乏安全感。性别不平等对男性也没有任何好处。
eclipse
/ɪ'klɪps/
vt. 侵蚀
n. 日蚀，月蚀；黯然失色
constitute
/'kɑnstətut/
vt.构成
see ... doing ..
I've seen my father's role being valued less
I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness
I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success.
上句的being可以被省略
[12]（略读）
We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes, but I can see that they are. And when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.
stereotype
/'stɛrɪətaɪp/
n.老套, 模式化的见解, 有老一套固定想法的人
It's not a stereotype if it's always true. ——Daniel Tosh
consequence
/'kɑnsəkwɛns/
n.结果, 后果
[13]（精读）
If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong. It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum, instead of two sets of opposing ideas. If we stop defining each other by what we are not, and start defining ourselves by what we are—we can all be freer. And this is what HeForShe is about. It’s about freedom.
译文：
如果男性不必那么争强好胜，那么女性也不会被迫着唯唯诺诺。 如果男性不必掌控一切，那么女性也无需俯首帖耳。男人和女人都可以是敏感的，是坚强的。现在，是时候我们把性别理解为一个连续的光谱，而非两个对立二元的概念。如果我们不再把对方看成自己的对立面，而是把对方看成我们的一员——我们都会更加自由。这就是“他为她”运动所倡导的。这就是自由。
aggressive
/ə'ɡrɛsɪv/
adj. 好争斗的, 挑衅的, 侵略性的
aggressive 争强好胜的 ，这里贬义，也可表示褒义词，进取心强的
submissive
/səb'mɪsɪv/
adj. 顺从的, 唯命是从的
submissive 服从的，唯唯诺诺
词根是submit, 屈服 submit to
[14] （精读)
I want men to take up this mantle. So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice, but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too—reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned, and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves.
译文：
我希望男性能肩负起这个责任（参与进来）。这样他们的女儿、姐妹和母亲都能免于偏见，同时，他们的儿子也能够表现出脆弱，人性的一面——拥有这些他们曾经摈弃的特质，这样他们才是更真实、完整的自己。
prejudice
[/'prɛdʒədɪs/
n.成见, 偏见, 歧视
permission
/pɚ'mɪʃən/
n. 允许, 许可, 准许
Part 4: If Not Me, Who? If Not Now, When?
[15]（略读）
You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It’s a good question and trust me, I have been asking myself the same thing. I don’t know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
[16]（略读）
And having seen what I’ve seen—and given the chance—I feel it is my duty to say something. Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.”
[17]（略读）
In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt, I’ve told myself firmly—if not me, who? if not now, when? If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you I hope those words might be helpful.
[18]（略读）
Because the reality is that if we do nothing, it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work. 15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children. And at current rates it won’t be until 2086 before all rural African girls will be able to receive a secondary education.
[19]（略读）
If you believe in equality, you might be one of those inadvertent feminists I spoke of earlier. And for this I applaud you. We are struggling for a uniting word but the good news is we have a uniting movement. It is called HeForShe. I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen, and to ask yourself: if not me, who? If not now, when?
[20]（略读）
Thank you very very much.
Review：
1.礼貌用语 would like, please放最后, It would be better if ... / I was hoping/ wondering if... / Could you...
2.bossy像老板一样的，喜欢指挥人
muscly肌肉发达的
名词+y结尾：snowy, noisy, healthy
3.have yet to do , 否定意思，你从没有做 ，
= have never done, 完成时态，以后也不会发生了
4.see doing be动词可以省略
I've seen my father's role being valued less
I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness
5.aggressive 贬义争强好胜的,褒义进取心强的
submissive唯命是从的
词根是submit, 屈服 submit to
feel compelled to do sth 被迫做某事
If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive.
练习：
1.你想请别人给些建议反馈，礼貌的请求方式，怎么说呢？
用5种不同的说法。记住，不要用want, please不要放开头。
2.用have yet to do造句
他还没有回复我呢。
我们还没有看到这个政策其效果。
3.我曾见过，男孩们没办法放声大哭。（see doing）
boys are unable to cry.
我曾见过，猫被活活打死
A cat is beaten to death.
4.用I‘ve seen 造句，写下你曾见过的，一些不公平的，委屈的事情。
（以上笔记版，由 FreeGrit潇洒毅行 为你编辑呈现，如果你喜欢这节课，支持Gender Equality，可以在24日为这节课投上一票~）
男人们，性别平等，也是为了你自己！
导读
男人们，你是否抱怨过，很多女孩只重物质，没房没车就别想结婚？是否苦恼过，难以和女生沟通，为啥对方不有话直说？是否因为要「做个男人」，被迫去抽烟喝酒，做一些自己不喜欢的事情？是否听过，情感丰富、用洗面奶的男生，是不是gay啊？
女性们，是否你有个重男轻女的爷爷奶奶，或者父母亲戚？是否你会因为企业的「只招男性」「要求外貌气质佳」而愤愤不平？是否听说，或遇到过职场上各种，言语行为的性骚扰，甚至潜规则？是否身边有人和你说，不必太关注工作，找个好男人嫁了就行了？
如果你，你心爱在乎的人有过上面的经历，是受害者，你想为你、他们的处境做出些改变，不妨读读今天的这篇文章，了解下「性别平等」（或者叫女权主义，虽然名字会有些误导），它是《哈利波特》中扮演「赫敏」的Emma Watson，在联合国发表的，关于性别平等的演讲。性别平等，并不仅仅是女性的事，也关乎到男同胞们。因为它和你们的妻子、母亲、女儿息息相关，也和你们自己相关--因为大多数男同胞，也是男权社会的受害者。
学习流程
以下建议，可根据自身情况、时间和兴趣调整。
先通读原文，过一遍重点生词，标记一些不懂的长难句。或者按照平时你预习的方式读原文。
再看视频，那些不懂的长难句的地方，注意下讲者的断句，有助于理解。因为重点在阅读上，看视频时可看字幕。
有问题，可以去文章下提问留言
听老师上课
课后查阅笔记版复习，最后再看一遍视频，试着不看字幕。此时不要求全部听懂，目标是，此时视频中放到课讲的知识点，能够反映回忆起来
文末的拓展阅读、实践。
视频来源:
正文讲稿
Emma Watson: Gender equality is your issue too
Part 1: Feminism Is Not Man-hating.
[1] Today we are launching a campaign called “HeForShe.” I am reaching out to you because I need your help. We want to end gender inequality—and to do that, we need everyone to be involved.
[2] This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN: we want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender equality. And we don’t just want to talk about it, but make sure it is tangible.
[3] I was appointed six months ago and the more I have spoken about feminism, the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.
[4] For the record, feminism by definition is: “The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.”
[5] I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago. When I was eight, I was confused at being called “bossy,” because I wanted to direct the plays we would put on for our parents—but the boys were not. When at 14, I started being sexualized by certain elements of the press. When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their sports teams because they didn’t want to appear “muscly.”When at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings.
[6] I decided I was a feminist, and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are choosing not to identify as feminists. Apparently I am among the ranks of women, whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive even. Why is the word such an uncomfortable one?
Part 2: My Story
[7] [精读] I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights. No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.
[8] These rights I consider to be human rights but I am one of the lucky ones. My life is a sheer privilege, because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didn’t assume I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influencers were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today. They may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists who are changing the world today. And we need more of those.
[9] And if you still hate the word—it is not the word that is important, but the idea and the ambition behind it. Because not all women have received the same rights that I have. In fact, statistically, very few have been.
Part 3: Your Issue Too
[10] In 1995, Hilary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women’s rights. Sadly many of the things she wanted to change are still a reality today. But what stood out for me the most was that only 30 per cent of her audience were male. How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation? Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation.
[11] [精读] Gender equality is your issue too. Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society, despite my needing his presence as a child as much as my mother’s. I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for fear it would make them look less of a man—in fact in the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20-49 years of age, eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality either.
[12] We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes, but I can see that they are. And when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.
[13] [精读] If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong. It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum, instead of two sets of opposing ideas. If we stop defining each other by what we are not, and start defining ourselves by what we are—we can all be freer. And this is what HeForShe is about. It’s about freedom.
[14] [精读] I want men to take up this mantle. So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice, but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too—reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned, and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves.
Part 4: If Not Me, Who? If Not Now, When?
[15] You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It’s a good question and trust me, I have been asking myself the same thing. I don’t know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
[16] And having seen what I’ve seen—and given the chance—I feel it is my duty to say something. Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.”
[17] In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt, I’ve told myself firmly—if not me, who? if not now, when?. If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you I hope those words might be helpful.
[18] Because the reality is that if we do nothing, it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work. 15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children. And at current rates it won’t be until 2086 before all rural African girls will be able to receive a secondary education.
[19] If you believe in equality, you might be one of those inadvertent feminists I spoke of earlier. And for this I applaud you. We are struggling for a uniting word but the good news is we have a uniting movement. It is called HeForShe. I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen, and to ask yourself: if not me, who? If not now, when?
[20] Thank you very very much.
Source: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2014/9/emma-watson-gender-equality-is-your-issue-too#sthash.1mOF0WPu.dpuf
课外阅读实践
- 更多关于这次演讲的观点背景，参见知乎一社会学博士的回答：https://www.zhihu.com/question/25520584
- 如果你赞同Emma的观点，也可以搜索「HeForShe」，去官网做出一份承诺（http://www.heforshe.org/en ，需要「梯子」才可浏览）。目前中国的参与承诺的人数，还是属于最低最淡的色块（可能也是因为正常渠道无法浏览）。
