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演讲简介：
艾丽丝·德雷格尔和她的同伴一起从事于边缘解剖学，例如连体儿和双性人。根据她的观察，在其他的结构特征中，男性和女性的分界线是很模糊的。为我们带来了一个问题：为什么要让我们的生理特征决定我们的命运。
n. 女权主义者 adj. 主张男女平等的，女权主义的
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- 2]Well, just to close, I want to suggest to you
- 好，说到这里，我想提醒大家
- that I've been talking a lot about the fathers.
- 我已经谈论了很多前人的事情
- And I want to think about the possibilities
- 我还想考虑一下
- of what democracy might look like, or might have looked like,
- 民主会是什么样子，或者是已经是什么样子的可能性
- if we had more involved the mothers.
- 如果我们可以让更多的母亲参与进来
- And I want to say something a little bit radical for a feminist,
- 我还想说对女权主义者有点激进的话
- and that is that I think that there may be
- 那就是我认为
- different kinds of insights
- 不同的人
- that can come from different kinds of anatomies,
- 也许可以带来不同的的观察视角
- particularly when we have people thinking in groups.
- 特别是当我们习惯于群体性思维的时候
- Now for years, because I've been interested in intersex,
- 我已经对双性人感兴趣很多年了
- I've also been interested in sex difference research.
- 也对性别差异也进行了多年的研究
- And one of the things that I've been really interested in
- 我十分感兴趣的事情之一是
- is looking at the differences between males and females
- 去观察世界范围内男性与女性之间
- in terms of the way they think and operate in the world.
- 在思考问题和解决问题上的差别
- And what we know from cross-cultural studies
- 我们从跨文化研究中得知
- is that females, on average --
- 女性，平均的看——
- not everyone, but on average --
- 当然不是每个人，而是平均的看——
- are more inclined to be very attentive
- 更倾向于留意
- to complex social relations
- 复杂的社会关系
- and to taking care of people
- 同时更加关心、同情
- who are basically vulnerable within the group.
- 人群中的弱势群体
- And so if we think about that,
- 那么如果我们这么认为
- we have an interesting situation on our hands.
- 我们发现一个有趣的情况
- Years ago, when I was in graduate school,
- 数年前，当我读研究生的时候
- one of my graduate advisers who knew I was interested in feminism --
- 我的一位指导教授知道我对女权运动很感兴趣——
- I considered myself a feminist, as I still do --
- 我自认是女权主义者，一直是——
- asked a really strange question.
- 他问了我一个很怪的问题
- He said, "Tell me what's feminine about feminism."
- 他说：“告诉我女权主义女性化在哪里”
- And I thought, "Well that's the dumbest question I've ever heard.
- 我想“恩……这是我听过的最让我哑口无言的问题
- Feminism is all about undoing stereotypes about gender,
- 女权主义是所有消除陈腐性别观念的一切活动的统称，
- so there's nothing feminine about feminism."
- 因此，女权主义不存在女性化”
- But the more I thought about his question,
- 但是，进一步解读这个问题，
- the more I thought there might be something feminine about feminism.
- 我想的更多的是，也许女权主义存在着一些女性化
- That is to say, there might be something, on average,
- 也就是说，也许有一些，总的说来
- different about female brains from male brains
- 女性的思维不同于男性的部分
- that makes us more attentive
- 使得我们更加富有警惕性
- to deeply complex social relationships
- 对于复杂的社会关系
- and more attentive to taking care of the vulnerable.
- 并且更加注意关心那些弱势群体
- So whereas the fathers were extremely attentive
- 但是前人们细心的
- to figuring out how to protect individuals from the state,
- 指出如何保护个人不受国家的影响
- it's possible that if we injected more mothers
- 如果我们在这个概念中注入如更多的母性
- into this concept,
- 是可能的
- what we would have is more of a concept
- 我们将拥有的要远多于一个概念
- of, not just how to protect,
- 不仅仅是如何保护
- but how to care for each other.
- 而是如何照顾彼此
- And maybe that's where we need to go in the future,
- 也许这就是我们未来要走的路
- when we take democracy beyond anatomy,
- 当我们抛开人种的分别来讲民主——
- is to think less about the individual body,
- 也就是较少的考虑到人的个体
- in terms of the identity,
- 关于人的身份特性，
- and think more about those relationships.
- 而是更多的考虑人们之间的关系
- So that as we the people try to create a more perfect union,
- 因此，当人们试图创造一个更加美好的联合体的时候
- we're thinking about what we do for each other.
- 我们需要考虑的是我们为他人都做了什么
- Thank you.
- 谢谢
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