在一位教授批評自己的“褲子太短”幾天之后,康奈爾大學(xué)的學(xué)生雷蒂亞·蔡竟然在答辯時當(dāng)眾脫下衣服。當(dāng)時還有她的20多名同學(xué)在場。
"This topic transcends all of our social identities and taps right into the heart of who we are," Chai, a fourth-year student, said to a room of nearly 50 people while presenting her thesis paper on May 5.
這名大四學(xué)生在5月5日進(jìn)行論文答辯時,對一個房間內(nèi)的近50人說道:“這個話題超越了我們的社會認(rèn)同,直觸我們身份的核心。”
Chai began undressing as she held back tears, first removing her shoes, then her pants and, lastly, her shirt.
蔡邊強(qiáng)忍著眼淚邊開始脫衣服,她先脫掉了鞋子,然后是褲子,最后是襯衫。
"I am more than Asian. I am more than a woman. I am more than Letitia Chai. I am a human being," she said while undressing.
她脫衣服時說道:“我不僅僅是亞洲人,我也是一個女人。我不僅僅是雷蒂亞·蔡。我也是一個人。”
Then 28 of the 44 people in the room also took off their clothes, The Cornell Sun reported.
據(jù)《康奈爾太陽報》報道,之后房間里44人中的28人脫掉了衣服。
The protest came just days after Chai was presenting a trial run of her thesis in her class"Acting in Public: Performance in Everyday Life" on May 2.
5月2日,雷蒂亞·蔡在她的班級進(jìn)行預(yù)答辯,主題是“公開演講:日常生活中行為”,而此次抗議就發(fā)生在幾天之后。
When Chai went to give her trial run presentation, professor Rebekah Maggor questioned the student's outfit choice. "Is that really what you would wear?" Maggor asked Chai.
當(dāng)蔡進(jìn)行預(yù)答辯時,麗貝卡·麥格爾教授質(zhì)疑了這名學(xué)生的穿著問題。麥格爾問蔡:“這是你穿短褲的場合嗎?”
Chai, who was wearing a long-sleeve button-down shirt and jean cutoff shorts, said she was"shook" by Maggor's alleged comments.
當(dāng)時穿著一件長袖襯衫和牛仔短褲的蔡表示,自己被麥格爾的所謂的言論“驚呆”了。
"The professor proceeded to tell me, in front of my whole class, that I was inviting the malegaze away from the content of my presentation and onto my body," she wrote on Facebook.
她在Facebook上寫道:“在我的全班同學(xué)面前,這名教授接著跟我說,我是將男性同學(xué)的目光從我的演講內(nèi)容轉(zhuǎn)移到了我的身體上面。”
“I am not responsible for anyone's attention because we are capable of thinking for ourselves and we have agency,” Chai told The Cornell Sun, referring to Maggor's alleged comments that her outfit would invite the wrong type of attention.
蔡在接受《康奈爾太陽報》采訪時說道:“我有權(quán)利思考并做出合理的選擇,我不用管別人怎么想。”她表示,麥格爾的所謂的評論導(dǎo)致她的穿著引起了本不應(yīng)得到的關(guān)注。