《隱藏人物》：NASA杰出女性告訴你，什么是真正的女權

聲音簡介：最近Papi醬孩子沒有隨母性被批不是女權的熱搜想必大家都有了解了，今天我們也來聊聊什么是女權Feminism。有一部經典電影《隱藏人物》Hidden Figures很好地詮釋了這一點。

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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.

影片講的是發生在20世紀60年代的真實故事。三位黑人女性和種族、性別偏見作斗爭，最終在航人飛行載人火箭中出色完成任務，最后實現了各自的理想的故事。

故事背景和《綠皮書》是同一時期，綠皮書的黑人男主也有參演。

故事中的Katherine是從小天賦異稟的數學家。

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.

而不光是他們，在當時社會的其他男性，甚至對她有仰慕之情、后來成了丈夫的Colonel Johnson，一開始對Katherine這樣一位在NASA工作的女性也有歧視。

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，我是西弗吉尼亞大學研究生院的第一位黑人女學生。每天我都會分析壓力計的空氣位移，摩擦力和速度，并通過余弦，平方根以及最近的"解析幾何"手動計算一萬多次。

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.

我們組里有20名聰明的黑人婦女，我們為能為國家做出自己的貢獻感到自豪。 所以，是的，他們讓女性在NASA做些事情，這不是因為我們穿裙子。 而是因為我們戴眼鏡。

言下之意自己是在用智力、努力，而不是樣貌，贏得了自己的應得的東西。

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》里的謝耳朵飾演的反派同事告訴Katherine說，NASA從來沒有過讓女性參加簡報會議的協定。

但Katherine卻回答說There's no protocol for a man circling the Earth either, sir. 男性能飛上太空也沒有相關的草擬協定啊，也是第一例。并通過說服大boss為自己贏得了機會。

最后也是Katherine在關鍵時刻為保障宇航員安全返回提供了數據，成為了NASA一名杰出的計算師。

NASA后來甚至建了一座以她的名字命名的大樓表彰她的突出貢獻。

影片中另一位很擅長數學的女性是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."

每回當她覺得夢想就要近一步了，別人就會把終點線移走。似乎對于一個黑人女性來說，成為NASA工程師是一件不可能的事。

直到后來在同事Karl的鼓勵下，她決定通過打官司為自己贏得去一個全都是白人男性學生的課程的學習機會，以此通過了NASA工程師的準入門檻。

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.

我沒有選擇，只能成為第一個。就像在Alan Shepard登上太空之前，也沒有人相信會有人類可以登上太空。--I have no choice but to be the first.

最后Mary成為了NASA第一位黑人女性工程師。

Mary和Katherine的好姐妹Dorothy Vaughan，也通過抗爭成為了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.

維基百科上說，女權主義是一系列旨在界定，建立和實現性別平等的政治運動和意識形態。

就像影片里的三位女性，通過自己的努力，贏得了沒有因性別而被區別對待的權利，也贏得了尊重。這才是女權，而不在于非要強調具體表現形式。

就像印度電影《他和她的故事》里面，男主因為夢想做家庭主婦就被遭到歧視，可誰規定了女性做家庭主婦就不違和，男性就一定違和？這些都只是表現形式，只要在男女雙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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