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 It sounds like a joke: Did you hear the one about the woman taking a feminist1 studies class who got angry when someone called her a feminist? 这听上去像个笑话：有人选修了女权主义研究的课程，却为自己被叫作“女权主义者”而生气。

But when I was in college, I embraced the same contradiction. 但是，在大学期间我也接受了这个悖论。
On one hand, I started a group to encourage more women to major in economics and government. 一方面，我创建了一个小组，鼓励更多的女生主修经济学和政府管理课程；
On the other hand, I would have denied being in any way, shape, or form a feminist. 另一方面，我又拒绝成为任何形式的女权主义者。
None of my college friends thought of themselves as feminists2 either. 我的大学校友们也没人认为自己是女权主义者。
It saddens me to admit that we did not see the backlash against women around us. 我必须很难过地承认，我们并没有听到周围存在着大量针对女性的反对声。
We accepted the negative caricature of a bra-burning, humorless, man-hating feminist. 提起女权主义者，我们既有的印象就是一个主张烧掉胸罩、面若冰霜、仇视男人的女人。
She was not someone we wanted to emulate3, in part because it seemed like she couldn't get a date. 我们谁也不想效仿她，因为这样做有可能会找不到男朋友。
Horrible, I know — the sad irony4 of rejecting feminism to get male attention and approval. 我知道，这听上去很可怕——为了得到男性的注意和认可而拒绝女权主义，真是相当悲哀的讽刺。
In our defense5, my friends and I truly, if naively6, believed that the world did not need feminists anymore. 为了给自己辩护，我和我的朋友完全（也有点天真地）相信，这个世界不再需要女权主义者了。
We mistakenly thought that there was nothing left to fight for. 我们错误地认为，已经没有什么理由继续为之奋斗和争取了。
I carried this attitude with me when I entered the workforce7. 刚参加工作时，我仍然这么想。
I figured if sexism still existed, I would just prove it wrong. I would do my job and do it well. 如果性别歧视还存在的话，我会证明它是错误的，我会尽职尽责把工作完成好。
What I didn't know at the time was that ignoring the issue is a classic survival technique. 我当时并不知道忽视问题的存在就是一种传统的生存技能。
 

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1 feminist mliyh     
adj.主张男女平等的，女权主义的
参考例句：
  • She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
  • From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。
2 feminists ef6993909ee3f0b8d1e79a268168539d     
n.男女平等主义者，女权扩张论者( feminist的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Only 16 percent of young women in a 1990 survey considered themselves feminists. 在1990年的一项调查中，只有16%的年轻女性认为自己是女权主义者。 来自辞典例句
  • The organization had many enemies, most notably among feminists. 这个组织有许多敌人，特别是在男女平等主义者中。 来自辞典例句
3 emulate tpqx9     
v.努力赶上或超越，与…竞争；效仿
参考例句：
  • You must work hard to emulate your sister.你必须努力工作，赶上你姐姐。
  • You must look at the film and try to emulate his behavior.你们必须观看这部电影，并尽力模仿他的动作。
4 irony P4WyZ     
n.反语，冷嘲；具有讽刺意味的事，嘲弄
参考例句：
  • She said to him with slight irony.她略带嘲讽地对他说。
  • In her voice we could sense a certain tinge of irony.从她的声音里我们可以感到某种讥讽的意味。
5 defense AxbxB     
n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩
参考例句：
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
6 naively c42c6bc174e20d494298dbdd419a3b18     
adv. 天真地
参考例句：
  • They naively assume things can only get better. 他们天真地以为情况只会变好。
  • In short, Knox's proposal was ill conceived and naively made. 总而言之，诺克斯的建议考虑不周，显示幼稚。
7 workforce workforce     
n.劳动大军，劳动力
参考例句：
  • A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
  • A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

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