#HeForShe - If not me, who? If not now, when?
#HeForShe - If not me, who? If not now, when?
真的很突然，
其實早在美國旅行的時候我就看了 #HeForShe by Emma Watson的演講。
我很認同，但我並沒有真正的去FOLLOW這個活動，
但今天聽到一位男性朋友說著「男人就不應該說出來啊」，
我相信他是無意，但我也相信，這樣的想法的確深根於很多男性心中，
而且我確信更發生在更多爸爸身上，因為我知道我家中就是如此。
所以我參加了 #HeForShe 小小的活動，而我也認為你應該參加。
這不只是女性的議題，也是男性的議題。
如同Emma Watson所說的，「Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong」
以下是演講裡我最印象深刻的一段話，很短英文文法用詞也很簡單，
如果真的看不懂，留言給我，我翻譯給你。
「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 “macho”—in fact in the UK suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20-49; 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.
We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.
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 not as two opposing sets of ideals.
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.」
https://www.heforshe.org/#take-action
