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1、DorothyL.Sayers:AddressgiventoaWomen’sSociety,1938AreWomenHuman?WhenIwasaskedtocomeandspeaktoyou,yourSecretarymadethesuggestionthatshethoughtImustbeinterestedinthefeministmovement.Ireplied—alittleirritably,Iamafraid—thatIwasnotsureIwantedto“identifymyself,”asthephrase
2、goes,withfeminism,andthatthetimefor“feminism,”intheold-fashionedsenseoftheword,hadgonepast.Infact,IthinkIwentsofarastosaythat,underpresentconditions,anaggressivefeminismmightdomoreharmthangood.AsaresultIwas,perhapsnotunnaturally,invitedtoexplainmyself.Idonotknowthatit
3、isveryeasytoexplain,withoutoffenceorriskofmisunderstanding,exactlywhatIdomean,butIwilltry.Thequestionof“sex-equality”is,likeallquestionsaffectinghumanrelationships,delicateandcomplicated.Itcannotbesettledbyloudslogansorhard-and-fastassertionslike“awomanisasgoodasaman”
4、—or“woman’splaceisthehome”—or“womenoughtnottotakemen’sjobs.”Theminuteonemakessuchassertions,onefindsonehastoqualifythem.“Awomanisasgoodasaman”isasmeaninglessastosay,“aKaffirisasgoodasaFrenchman”or“apoetisasgoodasanengineer”or“anelephantisasgoodasaracehorse”—itmeansnot
5、hingwhateveruntilyouadd:“atdoingwhat?”Inareligioussense,nodoubt,theKaffirisasvaluableintheeyesofGodasaFrenchman—buttheaverageKaffirisprobablylessskilledinliterarycriticismthantheaverageFrenchman,andtheaverageFrenchmanlessskilledthantheaverageKaffirintracingthespoorofb
6、iggame.Theremightbeexceptionsoneitherside:itislargelyamatterofheredityandeducation.Whenwebalancethepoetagainsttheengineer,wearefacedwithafundamentaldifferenceoftemperament—sothathereourquestioniscomplicatedbytheenormoussocialproblemwhetherpoetryorengineeringis“better”
7、fortheState,orforhumanityingeneral.Theremaybepeoplewhowouldlikeaworldthatwasallengineersorallpoets—butmostofuswouldliketohaveacertainnumberofeach;thoughhereagain,weshouldalldifferaboutthedesirableproportionofengineeringtopoetry.Theonlyprovisoweshouldmakeisthatpeoplewi
8、thdreamingandpoeticaltemperamentsshouldnotentanglethemselvesinengines,andthatmechanically-mindedpersonsshouldnotissuebooklet
