Name: 【TEDx】有威力的裙子 TED (The power dress: Kelly Hayes-Mcalonie at TEDxBuffaloWomen)
Uploaded: 2018-01-14T11:44:19.000Z
Duration: 10 min 51 s

Translator: Robert Tucker Reviewer: Ariana Bleau Lugo

譯者：羅伯特-塔克羅伯特-塔克 審稿人：Ariana Bleau Lugo

And I've been thinking about this because of my research on Louise Bethune,

而我'一直在思考這個問題，因為我對露易絲-貝圖恩的研究。

I have come to see the dress as a symbol of power,

我已經把這件衣服看作是權力的象徵。

而這種力量就是在這裡發明的。

So, December 18th marks the 100th anniversary

America's first professional woman architect,

Bethune was like many professional women at the time,

Bethune和當時許多職業女性一樣。

in that she faced the prejudice that men around her felt

因為她面臨著周圍男人的偏見。

that she lacked the talent, the intellect,

and the business acumen for professional life.

But Bethune also faced an additional prejudice,

但貝索恩還面臨著另外一個偏見。

and because women were confined to wearing dresses at that time,

而且因為當時的女性只能穿裙子。

it was believed by many that they lacked the ability to supervise construction.

很多人認為，他們缺乏監督施工的能力。

But supervise construction Louise Bethune most certainly did,

但監理施工路易絲-貝索恩肯定是這樣做的。

probably by wearing men's trousers underneath her dress.

可能是通過穿男人'的褲子在她的衣服下面。

Bethune supervised at least a third of her firm's projects over her career,

Bethune在她的職業生涯中至少監督了公司三分之一的項目'。

and in particular the Hotel Lafayette across the street.

of the Buffalo Women's Wheel and Athletic Club,

的水牛城婦女'輪和運動俱樂部。

one of the first women's bicycling groups in the United States.

是美國最早的婦女自行車團體之一。

Indeed, Bethune was the first woman in Buffalo to own her own bicycle.

事實上，貝蘇恩是布法羅第一位擁有自己自行車的女性。

The Wheelers did a tremendous amount to support the suffrage movement.

輪子們為支持普選運動做了大量的工作。

In fact, Susan B Anthony said that Wheelers had done more

事實上，蘇珊-B-安東尼說，惠爾勒做的事情更多。

for the suffrage movement than anything else.

對普選運動的貢獻比其他任何事情都大。

So, women continued to enter the architectural profession,

於是，女性繼續進入建築行業。

and by the Civil Rights era, and after, when they had reached critical mass,

和到民權時代，以及在民權時代之後，當他們達到了臨界品質。

they were dressing mostly to suit themselves.

他們的穿著主要是為了適合自己。

And, in general, they were wearing pantsuits --

而且，在一般情況下，他們穿著褲裝 -

Now, in 2011, I had the great opportunity to work with my friend and colleague,

現在，在2011年，我有很好的機會與我的朋友和同事合作。

professor at the UB School of Architecture and Planning,

on the design and launch of Architect Barbie

It was the I-can-be career doll of that year.

This doll was immensely popular among its target demographic:

這種娃娃在其目標人群中非常受歡迎。

But there were some people in the profession who were critical.

但也有一些業內人士提出了責備。

In general, I dismissed many of these comments, because comments like:

總的來說，我否定了很多這樣的評論，因為這樣的評論。

"She doesn't wear enough black," and "She's got on too much pink."

"她穿的黑色不夠多"，"她穿的粉色太多"。

"She isn't cool enough to be an architect."

"她還不夠酷，不適合當建築師。"

All of those in my mind seemed superficial,

所有這些在我看來都是膚淺的。

and they missed the point behind the project,

which was to spread awareness of architecture to little girls.

這是為了向小女孩普及建築知識。

But there was one group, who criticized the project, that did give me pause,

但有一個群體，他們責備這個項目，確實讓我感到不安。

those baby boomers and the generation before,

那些嬰兒潮一代和之前的一代。

who had worked in the trenches and paved the way for Gen-Xers like me,

他們在戰壕裡工作，為我這樣的X世代鋪平了道路。

When women from that generation critiqued the project,

當那一代的女性對這個項目進行批評時。

Many of these women felt that the whole idea of Barbie

這些婦女中的許多人都覺得，整個芭比娃娃的想法。

stood for every stereotype against which they had fought for so many years,

代表了他們多年來所反對的每一種定型觀念。

and the fact that the doll was wearing a dress,

well, no woman would wear a dress to work,

好了，沒有女人會穿裙子上班。

especially on a construction site, and be taken seriously.

特別是在施工現場，要認真對待。

So, I closed out 2011 with these two histories on my mind.

於是，在2011年的最後，我懷揣著這兩段歷史。

First, the prejudice that Louise Bethune and her contemporaries experienced by men

首先，露易絲-貝索恩和她的同齡人所經歷的男性偏見。

who said that because she was confined to a dress, she could not be an architect,

她說，因為她被限制在衣服裡，所以她不能成為一名建築師。

and then contemporary women critiquing a doll in a dress,

然後當代女性對一個穿裙子的娃娃進行點評。

and saying that that doll represented architects.

On December 30, 2011, I woke up and I could not stand.

2011年12月30日，我醒來後，我無法忍受。

By the end of the day, I was in a hospital ICU on a ventilator

那天結束時，我在醫院的重症監護室裡，用呼吸機治療

I was diagnosed with Guillain–Barré syndrome,

我被診斷為吉蘭 -巴雷綜合症。

that breaks the connection between the brain, the spine and the muscles.

破壞了大腦、脊柱和肌肉之間的聯繫。

大多數人在吉蘭-巴雷病中倖存下來。

they do so because of complications with the ventilator -- which I was on.

他們這樣做是因為呼吸機的併發症... ...而我當時正在使用呼吸機。

to go from being a vibrant, energetic person

從一個朝氣蓬勃、精力充沛的人變得

to becoming an invalid on life support the next.

I can tell you that I was filled with deep despair.

我可以告訴你，我當時充滿了深深的絕望。

However, this story has a happy ending as I stand here before you,

然而，這個故事有一個美好的結局，因為我站在這裡，在你面前。

但也有一些時候，我'會說實話。

when the complications with the ventilator took place,

and I thought that those moments, I was going to die.

我以為那些時刻，我就要死了。

However, miraculously, glacially, incrementally, I began to recover,

然而，奇蹟般地，冰川般地，漸漸地，我開始恢復了。

and when I finally got off the ventilator,

I was able to push my body to make those neurological connections,

我能夠推動我的身體去建立這些神經系統的聯繫。

so I could learn how to walk and talk and feed myself.

這樣我就可以學習如何走路和說話，養活自己。

My recovery was isolating and, at times, painful,

我的康復是孤立的，有時也是痛苦的。

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