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Gender definitions 性别定义

Gender poses too many restrictions on our choices, and these restrictions are often unnecessary. Thinking about what gender biases I've encountered before, and reflecting on my past prejudices and inappropriate behavior towards the opposite sex, I ended up creating this group of works.

性别对我们的选择有太多的限制,而这些限制很多时候本不是必要的。一边思考着我遭受过哪些性别偏见,一边反思着我曾对异性有哪些偏见和不妥的言行,最后创作了这组作品。
He is defined as a same image: strong, brave, bold, pursuing career success, laying stress on sex, tough, not good at taking care of his family, not good at housework... and this is called "manliness".

他被定义为同一个样子:强壮、勇敢、粗犷、追求事业成功、重性、有泪不轻弹、不擅长照顾家人、不擅长做家务……这就是所谓的“男子气概”。
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It is just right for him to attach great importance to the career, at work all day and forget all about eating and sleeping, sacrifice the time with his loved ones, and be promoted to the management at last. This is the goal the society gives to him, and he will also get more resources in career.

他重视事业是天经地义的事情,废寝忘食终日工作,牺牲与亲人相处的时间,最后成功晋升管理层,这就是社会赋予他的目标,他也会因此得到更多的职场资源。
Most of the time, he must hurt his own body to maintain gender bonuses. For example, he needs to suppress emotions, accept the challenge of self-injury such as " a man should drink it up" . He does not have the rights to be weak, because he has to be in a dominant position.

很多时候,他必须伤害自己的身体来维持性别红利,比如需要压抑情感表达、接受“是男人就干了这杯”之类自我伤害性质的挑战,他没有软弱的权利,因为他必须处于支配地位。
Once he does not conform to the traditional male “definition of gender", and can’t fit in, he will be disciplined and squeezed out by the mainstream. Once having anexquisite and soft personality, enthusiasm for housework, chasing fashions, he will bedescribed as "not like men" or "sissy".

一旦他表现得不符合传统男性的“性别定义”,装不进这个模具,他就会受到主流的规训和排挤。他一旦情绪细腻、性格柔和、热衷家务、追逐时尚都会被赋予“不像男人”“娘娘腔”的描述。
The greatest identity she was granted seems to be a "good wife", "good daughter" and "good mother", but herself. She seems to be a born great choice to take care of her family, which is her duty, and she seems to have no value when separating herself from family.

她被赋予的最伟大的身份似乎是“好妻子”“好母亲”“好女儿”,唯独不是她自己。她似乎一出生就注定了是照顾家人的绝佳人选,这是她的天职,脱离家庭的她似乎没有价值。
Once she deviates from her "granted duties", and focus on the development of herself, she will be labeled as "female Dcotor ", “strong woman" and a series of tags. People always look at her with a subtle disdain, because she "can’t get herself married" or is "unable to take care of her family”.

一旦她偏离“天职”只专注投入发展自我,就会被贴上“女博士”“女强人”等一系列标签。人们看她的眼神,总带着微妙的鄙视,因为她“嫁不出去”或者“照顾不好家庭”。

If she is successful in career, the most frequently asked question will be "how to balance career and family" . Once she can't take care of the family, no matter how successful her career is, she is a failure.

如果她事业有成,“如何平衡事业与家庭”一定是她最常被质问的问题,一旦她不能好好照顾家庭,不论她的事业有多成功,她都是失败者。
She has got gender bonuses of "no criticize even if the job is not well done," and meanwhile they must also accept the "workplace bias" that comes with the bonuses.

她拥有“即使工作不出色也不会被责备”的性别红利,同时她们也必须接受这种红利背后附加的“职场偏见”。
For either male or female, biological gender is an important indicator of social resource allocation, and society has set a series of rules for them. They are the constructors, beneficiaries, and meanwhile oppressors of this definition.

无论男性还是女性,生理性别都是一种重要的社会资源分配指标,社会为TA们制定了一系列规则。TA们都是这个定义的建构者、受益者、受压迫者。
Gender definitions 性别定义
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