试想,如果有人写了一篇“COVID时期有前列腺/阳痿问题的人”,会不会有文人发推说“不就是‘男人’嘛”,然后有人反推"transmen没有前列腺/阳痿!你这不是分明anti-trans!" 然后全球网民扯进去,各自占地为营,发动抵制他和他的作品,和任何没有表态的人断交。一帮子有名没名的纷纷出来谴责、声讨、划清界限,...
What's the chance of that?
What's the chance of each stage happening?
Rowling以前在Twitter每次上囧T的时候,读HP长大的书迷们欢呼雀跃,这就是我的偶像,我太爱你了!
现在也是同样这批HP迷,一个个宣誓要把自己所有的HP书都给烧了,谁读Rowling我跟谁拼命!
红卫兵精神跨时代、跨地域、跨制度。一方面口口声声反bully,反言论控制,一方面一言不合即全面封杀。That's something I can't swallow. Sometimes there are just way too much political correctness, so much so one is left to wonder how is that not a form of controlling and lack of freedom too?
文字是有力量的。文字在不断演变、进化。Gay在英文里用了几百年没有性别取向,到了19、20世纪成了同性恋专用名词。同性恋团体就是gay community,女同性恋也多被叫做gay。然后女同性者要求用lesbian。Lebos可比gai早了一千多年的历史,可女性一直等到80年代才可以不用借用男性的称谓。Gay, gay/lesbian, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, 一个性别取向过去4、50年里精分精分再精分...Sex doesn't matter? Gender doesn't matter? Who are we kidding?! It matters A LOT! I may not agree with everything Rowling wrote, but I totally agree with her on
If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased.
If sex doesn't matter, why the hell do we have so many labels on sex and sex preference alone?! All those fights for same-sex marriage are meaningless. Why do we care who's going to take RBG's seat? A turnip can do just fine as long as it votes the way GOP wants.
Labels matter a lot。 那么如此在乎精分label的群体为什么要笼统地含糊、混肴"女性"、“女人”一词呢?为什么woman/women不能跟biologic sex/gender挂钩?
心理性别和生理性别是两回事,culturally, socially, psychologically, 包括第二性徵,可以人为去定义去改变,X和Y的组合没办法改变。如果一个人觉得自己投错了身体,变性也好,不变性也好,那是他/她的选择,旁人是没资格说对还是错。这是他们的人生,是苦是甜他们自己过,旁人替不了。但是如果他们觉得自己是错身男体的女人,而其他来例假的XX人自称女人是对他们不公平,那么谁才是受迫害妄想症患者?
对大多数人来说,个人生活经历决定他们的观点。如果我是生活在叙利亚,我担心怎么活过今天不被炸死,我的孩子能长大成人。如果我在阿富汗,我担心我女儿是不是可以上学、不用十岁不到就被逼着嫁老头。我要生活在印度我要担心每天走路坐车怎么不被人轮奸。我要在沙特我要担心哪天不小心脚在袍子下露出来被警察暴打。如果我在中国某个穷山沟里我担心我女儿会不会被拐卖做童养媳,我会不会生不出儿子被丈夫打。如果我在中国大城市我担心老公是不是外面小三、小四外加儿子一箩筐。第一世界问题?第三世界问题?这是做为女性必须面对的种种,几千年来,时时刻刻,分分秒秒。女性权益不是象牙塔里学术论文讨论的名词,性别不平等是我们从出生一刻开始就得面对、相伴一生的现实。
我在美国,我考虑的是搞科技的女性比例年年下降、男女酬劳差异、压在亚裔和女性头顶的glass ceiling...Now I'm just a person with period. I can't even call myself a "woman" because some old women don't have period any more, some have but think they are men, some were born as a man but think they are a woman so they don't have period...我们连用这么一个笼统含糊的称谓的时候都要考虑再三是不是政治正确、是不是有意无意地把某些个人划到他们认为属于的圈圈外、伤了他们的感情,give me a break, 不要说这不是对大多数女性的权益威胁。
等我过了更年期,我不会说因为我不来例假了那么年轻女性还有例假的就不能用“女人”、“女性”称呼他们自己。Being a woman is a not a privileged club that we guard its membership so secretly and won't let anyone else join. 既然认为自己也是女人,跟男人挣天下去,不要踩在其他女人脖子上。
Do I agree with all Rowling's opinions? No, but I agree on some. And those I don't agree, her words and actions match her value system much more consistently and openly than lots of other celebrities. Rowling 是很热衷慈善的,捐了不少钱也不时出面为她支持的弱势团体出声。HP系列作为童书、YA,她写进去不少现实社会的问题,比如Dumbledore,Demontors, pure blood vs half-blood/house elves/magical creatures, 这些已经远远超越很多同类小说。中国的儿童、少年文学很少会加入这么多的real life darkness。至于她的保守价值观, 谁认为保守的魔法世界会比现实社会更进步?她写给成年人的Strike系列现实写实就更多了。不同的社会阶层,不同的社会问题。有的读起来很干涩,很让人不开心。也因如此被嫌弃破案不够精彩、篇幅冗长、枯燥乏味。不论是她太有钱了不在乎,还是她就是这样坚持写自己想写的书,反正一本接一本充斥着形形色色,有低智的,有残废,有被强暴的,有被家暴的,有精神受刺激的,有虐待狂,有变态杀手...plenty broken people。噼里啪啦一大堆,当然破案就不显得是最重要的了。看看其他出名的一些mystery/detective/true crime 作家,尤其是男性作品,有几个人笔下的受害者不是女性,有几个人不写点同性/双性的角色,有几个案例不是sex crime?尤其是true crime作家,每个人都靠着一个比一个更血腥的 sex crime on women 出名赚钱。除了对女性暴力以外,其它的社会问题都一概不提。没见谁网上反起抵制的。Why?
Do I enjoy reading all Rowling's writings? Not always. But I have to give her credits for insisting on telling the story her way. She doesn't get swang by fans' demands easily. Her characters may be broken once, they never gave up and always tried to find their way again. That's more than one get out of reading some other popular true crime books.
文字在不断演变、进化。现在谁还会用gay来表达carefree, joyful? 如果所有人都静静的默许了"有月经的人",明天是不是就成了正常词汇?想想fake news, alternative fact, covfefe, 四年前你绞尽脑汁都想不出的东西,现在是everyday words.