女性主義：一場包羅萬象的盛宴

奇瑪曼達·恩戈茲·阿迪契（Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie）是來自尼日利亞的小說家。最近她在美國著名女校韋爾斯利學院2015年畢業典禮上發表演講，與即將踏入社會的女生們分享了她對女權主義的獨到見解和一些人生建議。

早在1997年，希拉里·克林頓于北京發表了一場關于女性權益的著名演說；2014年，艾瑪·沃特森也在聯合國發表了“He for She”的女性主義主題演講。這些演講擲地有聲，均引起了良好的社會反響。但直到現在，女性遭到不平等對待的現象仍然普遍，我們暫且撇開客觀因素，捫心自問：自己是否做到了力所能及的事。惡勢力要想取勝，只要足夠多善良的男人和女人選擇袖手旁觀就可以。就像艾瑪說的那樣，在需要我們站出來卻感到害怕的時候，可以這樣問自己：如果不是我，那又該是誰；如果不是現在，那又該是何時！

So hello， Class of 2015， Congratulations！ And thank you for that wonderful welcome. And thank you President Bottomly for that wonderful introduction.

I have admired Wellesley—its mission， its story， its successes—for a long time and I thank you very much for inviting me.

You are ridiculously lucky to be graduating from this 1）bastion of excellence and on these beautiful acres. And if the goddesses and gods of the universe do the right thing， then you will also very soon be the proud 2）alumnae of the college that produced America’s first female president！ Go Hillary！

I’m truly， truly happy to be here today， I am so happy to be here， in fact， that when I found out your class color was yellow， I decided I would wear yellow eye shadow. But on second thoughts， I realized that as much as I admire Wellesley， even yellow eye-shadow was a bit too much of a gesture. So I dug out this yellow—yellowish—headwrap instead.

And so as you graduate， as you deal with your excitement and your doubts today， I urge you to try and create the world you want to live in.

Minister to the world in a way that can change it. Minister radically， in a real， active， practical， get your hands dirty way.

Wellesley will open doors for you. Walk through those doors and make your strides long and firm and sure.

Write television shows in which female strength is not depicted as remarkable but as merely normal.

Teach your students to see that vulnerability is a HUMAN rather than a FEMALE trait.

Commission magazine articles that teach men HOW TO KEEP A WOMAN HAPPY. Because there’re already too many articles that tell women how to keep a man happy. And in media interviews， make sure fathers are asked how they balance family and work. In this age of ‘parenting as guilt，’ please spread the guilt equally. Make fathers feel as bad as mothers. Make fathers share in the glory of guilt.

Campaign and agitate for paid paternity everywhere in America-paid paternity leave everywhere in America.

Hire more women， where there are few. But remember that a woman you hire doesn’t have to be exceptionally good. Like a majority of the men who get hired， she just needs to be good enough.

It was as though feminism was supposed to be an 3）elite little cult， with 4）esoteric rites of membership.

But it shouldn’t. Feminism should…feminism should be an inclusive party. Feminism should…feminism should be a party full of different feminisms.

And so， Class of 2015， please go out there and make feminism a big， 5）raucous， inclusive party.

And as you graduate today， I urge you to think about that a little more. Think about what really matters to you. Think about what you WANT to really matter to you.

All over the world， girls are raised to be make themselves likeable， to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people.

Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don’t do it. If someone likes that version of you， that version of you that is 1 and holds back， then they actually just like a twisted shape， and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted， diverse place that there are people in the world who will like you， the real you， as you are.

I am lucky that my writing has given me a platform that I choose to use to talk about things I care about， and I have said a few things that have not been so popular with a number of people. I have been told to shut up about certain things—such as my position on the equal rights of gay people on the continent of Africa， such as my deeply held belief that men and women are completely equal. I， don’t speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time on earth is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves， each moment we pretend to be what we are not， each moment we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody wants us to say， then we are wasting our time on earth.

I don’t mean to sound precious but please don’t waste your time on earth， but there is one exception. The only acceptable way of wasting your time on earth is online shopping.

Okay， one， one last thing about my mother， bless her. My mother and I do not agree on many things regarding gender. There are certain things my mother believes a person should do， for the simple reason that the said person ‘is a woman.’ Such as occasionally nod and smile even when smiling is the last thing you want to do. Such as strategically give in to certain arguments， especially when arguing with a non-female. Such as get married and have children. Now I can think of fairly good reasons for doing any of these. But‘because you are a woman’ is not one of them. And so， Class of 2015， never ever accept “Because You Are A Woman” as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Congratulations.

2015屆的學子們，你們好！

祝賀大家！感謝大家的熱情歡迎。還要感謝波特姆利校長對我的精彩介紹。

我長久以來一直對韋爾斯利學院滿懷崇敬——其使命、故事、成就，因此我非常感謝你們邀請我來此。

你們能夠從這個卓越的堡壘、這片美麗的土地畢業，實在是幸運得不像話。如果天上地下的神祗們行事無差，你們很快也將成為這個培養了美國史上第一位女總統的學院的榮譽校友！未來的希拉里們，加油！

今天能夠來到這里，我真的真的很高興，太高興了。事實上，當我發現你們這一屆的特定顏色是黃色時，我就決定要涂上黃色的眼影。但轉念一想，我意識到，即便我對韋爾斯利學院無比崇敬，黃色的眼影也有點過于高調了。……