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So, some combustible material there.
讓我提出一些爭議性的問題
Whether in this audience or people elsewhere in the world,
這里有某些人，或現在在世界上別的角落
hearing some of this, may well be doing the screaming-with-rage thing, after as well, some of them.
可能有人聽見這個，然后憤怒或尖叫。某些人。
Language seems to be really important here.
語言似乎是個很重要的元素
When you're talking about the veil, you're talking about women dressed in cloth bags.
但你提到面罩的時候，你是說那些把全身蒙住的女人嗎
I've lived in the Muslim world, spoken with a lot of Muslim women.
我曾在回教國家居住，和許多回教婦女談話
And some of them would say something else. They would say,
她們可能會有別種想法。她們會說
"No, you know, this is a celebration of female specialness,
“不，這是對女性的一種禮贊，凸顯我們是特別的，”
it helps build that and it's a result of the fact that"
這幫助我們這個，而且是因為那個……
and this is arguably a sophisticated psychological view "that male lust is not to be trusted."
當然這不是一種非常可靠的心理學論點，“你不能信任男人的情欲”
I mean, can you engage in a conversation with that kind of woman without seeming kind of cultural imperialist?
我們是否可以用一種不帶著文化帝國主義的角度和這些女人討論這些問題
Yeah, well I think I tried to broach this in a sentence, watching the clock ticking, but the question is:
讓我一邊看著秒針，一邊嘗試簡短回答這個問題，真正的問題是：
What is voluntary in a context where men have certain expectations,
這真的是她們的個人意愿嗎，在男人期待你戴上面罩
and you're guaranteed to be treated in a certain way if you don't veil yourself?
如果不戴就必須承受某種后果的狀況下？
And so, if anyone in this room wanted to wear a veil, or a very funny hat, or tattoo their face --
如果在這個房間里，有任何人想要戴面罩，一個非常可笑的帽子，或是在臉上刺青
I think we should be free to voluntarily do whatever we want,
我想每個人應該做我們想做的，在自愿的情況下
but we have to be honest about the constraints that these women are placed under.
但我們必須誠實面對這些女人的處境
And so I think we shouldn't be so eager to always take their word for it,
我認為我們不應該太快地接受她們的說法
especially when it's 120 degrees out and you're wearing a full burqa.
尤其在120度高溫，而你竟然必須蒙住全身的狀況下
