Four years ago today, exactly, actually, I started a fashion blog called Style Rookie. Last September of 2011, I started an online magazine for teenage girls called Rookiemag.com. My name's Tavi Gevinson, and the title of my talk is "Still Figuring It Out," and the MS Paint quality of my slides was a total creative decision in keeping with today's theme, and has nothing to do with my inability to use PowerPoint. (Laughter)
Prije točno četiri godine počela sam pisati modni blog Style Rookie. U rujnu 2011., osnovala sam online časopis za tinejdžerice, Rookiemag.com. Zovem se Tavi Gevinson, a naslov mojeg govora je „Još shvaćajući“, a MS Bojanje-kvaliteta mojih slajdova je potpuno kreativna odluka u skladu s današnjom temom, i nema ništa s mojom nesposobnošću za rad u PowerPointu. (Smijeh)
So I edit this site for teenage girls. I'm a feminist. I am kind of a pop culture nerd, and I think a lot about what makes a strong female character, and, you know, movies and TV shows, these things have influence. My own website. So I think the question of what makes a strong female character often goes misinterpreted, and instead we get these two-dimensional superwomen who maybe have one quality that's played up a lot, like a Catwoman type, or she plays her sexuality up a lot, and it's seen as power. But they're not strong characters who happen to be female. They're completely flat, and they're basically cardboard characters. The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple, when, in actuality, women are complicated, women are multifaceted -- not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people. (Laughter)
Uređujem ovaj site za tinejdžerice. Ja sam feministica. . Na neki način sam štreber za pop kulturu i mnogo razmišljam o tome što čini snažan ženski karakter i, znate, filmovi i TV programi , te stvari utječu. Moj vlastiti website. I mislim kako pitanje o tome što čini snažan ženski karakter često bude krivo protumačeno, i umjesto njega dobivamo dvodimenzionalne super žene koje možda imaju jednu istaknutu kvalitetu kao što je tip Žene mačke, ili ističe svoju seksualnost i na to se gleda kao na moć. Ali one su snažni karakteri koji su slučajno žene. Potpuno su ravne i gotovo su kartonski likovi. Problem je u tome što ljudi onda očekuju da žene budu lake za shvatiti, a žene se izluđuju jer nisu jednostavne, jer su, u stvarnosti, žene komplicirane, žene su mnogolike – ne zato što su žene lude, već zato što su ljudi ludi, a žene su slučajno ljudi. (Smijeh)
So the flaws are the key. I'm not the first person to say this. What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.
Mane su ključ. Nisam prva osoba koja ovo govori. Što čini snažan ženski karakter je karakter koji ima slabosti, koji ima mane, koji možda nije neposredno privlačan, ali s kojim se moguće povezati
I don't like to acknowledge a problem without also acknowledging those who work to fix it, so just wanted to acknowledge shows like "Mad Men," movies like "Bridesmaids," whose female characters or protagonists are complex, multifaceted. Lena Dunham, who's on here, her show on HBO that premiers next month, "Girls," she said she wanted to start it because she felt that every woman she knew was just a bundle of contradictions, and that feels accurate for all people, but you don't see women represented like that as much. Congrats, guys. (Laughs)
Ne volim obznaniti problem bez da obznanim one koji rade na popravljanju istog pa sam samo htjela priznati emisije kao „Momci s Madisona“, filmove poput „Djeveruše“, čiji su ženski likovi i protagonisti složeni i mnogoliki. Lena Dunham, koja je ovdje, njezin šou na HBOu koji će biti premijerno prikazan sljedeći mjesec, „Djevojke“, ona je rekla kako ga je započela jer je osjećala da je svaka žena koju poznaje gomila kontradikcija, i to se čini točnim za sve ljude, ali ne vidite često da se žene takvima predstavlja. Čestitke, dečki. (Smijeh)
But I don't feel that — I still feel that there are some types of women who are not represented that way, and one group that we'll focus on today are teens, because I think teenagers are especially contradictory and still figuring it out, and in the '90s there was "Freaks and Geeks" and "My So-Called Life," and their characters, Lindsay Weir and Angela Chase, I mean, the whole premise of the shows were just them trying to figure themselves out, basically, but those shows only lasted a season each, and I haven't really seen anything like that on TV since.
Ali ja ne mislim tako – još uvijek mislim da postoje tipovi žena koji nisu predstavljeni, a grupa na koju ćemo se danas usredotočiti su tinejdžeri, jer mislim da su tinejdžerice posebno kontradiktorne i još shvaćaju, a u 90ima postojali su „Freaks and Geeks“ ] te „I to mi je neki život“, a njihovi likovi, Lindsay Weir i Angela Chase, mislim, cijela premisa serija bila je u tome da se one pokušavaju shvatiti, u osnovi, ali te su serije trajale po sezonu svaka. i od tada nisam vidjela ništa slično na TVu.
So this is a scientific diagram of my brain — (Laughter) — around the time when I was, when I started watching those TV shows. I was ending middle school, starting high school -- I'm a sophomore now — and I was trying to reconcile all of these differences that you're told you can't be when you're growing up as a girl. You can't be smart and pretty. You can't be a feminist who's also interested in fashion. You can't care about clothes if it's not for the sake of what other people, usually men, will think of you.
I ovo je znanstveni dijagram moga mozga – (Smijeh) – u vrijeme kada sam imala, kada sam počela gledati te serije. Završavala sam osnovnu školu, počinjala sam srednju. Sada sam druga godina, i dok sam se pokušavala izmiriti sa svim tim razlikama za koje ti kažu da ne možeš biti kada odrastaš kao djevojčica. Ne možeš biti pametna i lijepa. Ne možeš biti feministica koja je zainteresirana za modu. Ne može ti biti stalo do odjeće ako to nije zbog mišljenja drugih, obično muškaraca.
So I was trying to figure all that out, and I felt a little confused, and I said so on my blog, and I said that I wanted to start a website for teenage girls that was not this kind of one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing because I think one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be a feminist, they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in your beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubts, having all of the answers. And this is not true, and, actually, reconciling all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I understood that feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process, and this is a spread from a zine that I made last year when I -- I mean, I think I've let myself go a bit on the illustration front since. But, yeah.
Pa sam to pokušavala shvatiti, i osjećala sam se zbunjenom, i to sam rekla na svom blogu, , i rekla sam da želim osnovati website za tinejdžerice koji nije od vrste takvih koji opunomoćavaju plošne snažne karaktere, jer mislim da jedna stvar koja može biti vrlo otuđujuća u lošoj interpretaciji feminizma je da djevojke misle da, ako žele biti feministice, moraju biti savršeno dosljedne u svojim uvjerenjima, nikada nesigurne, bez sumnji, imajući sve odgovore. A to nije istina istina i, zapravo, pomirba svih proturječja koja sam osjećala postala je jednostavnija kada sam shvatila da feminizam nije knjiga pravila, već rasprava, razgovor, proces i to je stranica iz magazina kojeg sam napravila prošle godine kada sam, mislim, mislim da sam se malo opustila na ilustracijskoj fronti od tada. Ali da.
So I said on my blog that I wanted to start this publication for teenage girls and ask people to submit their writing, their photography, whatever, to be a member of our staff. I got about 3,000 emails. My editorial director and I went through them and put together a staff of people, and we launched last September. And this is an excerpt from my first editor's letter, where I say that Rookie, we don't have all the answers, we're still figuring it out too, but the point is not to give girls the answers, and not even give them permission to find the answers themselves, but hopefully inspire them to understand that they can give themselves that permission, they can ask their own questions, find their own answers, all of that, and Rookie, I think we've been trying to make it a nice place for all of that to be figured out.
Pa sam rekla na svom blogu da želim početi s tom publikacijom za tinejdžerice i pitala sam ljude da prilože svoje tekstove, fotografije, bilo što, da bi postali članovi osoblja. Dobila sam oko 3 000 mailova. Moj urednik i ja smo prošli kroz njih i skupili osoblje, i pokrenuli smo se prošlog rujna. I ovo je izvod iz mog prvog uvodničkog pisma, gdje kažem kako na Rookiju nemamo sve odgovore, da i mi još shvaćamo, ali bit nije u tome da djevojkama damo odgovore, ni da im damo dopuštenje da ih nađu same, već da shvate kako si same mogu dati to dopuštenje, da mogu pitati vlastita pitanja, naći svoje odgovore, sve to, a Rookie, mislim mi smo se trudili stvoriti lijepo mjesto gdje bi se sve to moglo shvatiti.
So I'm not saying, "Be like us," and "We're perfect role models," because we're not, but we just want to help represent girls in a way that shows those different dimensions. I mean, we have articles called "On Taking Yourself Seriously: How to Not Care What People Think of You," but we also have articles like, oops -- I'm figuring it out! Ha ha. (Laughter) If you use that, you can get away with anything. We also have articles called "How to Look Like You Weren't Just Crying in Less than Five Minutes."
I zato ne kažem, „Budite kao mi,“ i „Mi smo savršeni uzori“, jer nismo, ali samo želimo pomoći predstavljanju djevojaka na način koji pokazuje te različite dimenzije. Mislim, imamo članak s naslovom „O shvaćanju sebe ozbiljno: Kako da vam ne bude stalo do toga što drugi misle o vama“, ali imamo i članke kao, ups, još shvaćam! Ha ha. (Smijeh) Ako to koristiš, možeš se izvući iz svega. Također imamo članke kao što je „Kako izgledati kao da nisi plakala prije manje od pet minuta“.
So all of that being said, I still really appreciate those characters in movies and articles like that on our site, that aren't just about being totally powerful, maybe finding your acceptance with yourself and self-esteem and your flaws and how you accept those.
Kada je sve rečeno, zaista cijenim one likove u filmovima i člancima kao što su oni na našem siteu, oni nisu samo moćni, možda pronalazeći prihvaćanje same sebe i samopouzdanja i svojih mana te kako njih prihvaćaš.
So what I you to take away from my talk, the lesson of all of this, is to just be Stevie Nicks. Like, that's all you have to do. (Laughter) Because my favorite thing about her, other than, like, everything, is that she is very -- has always been unapologetically present on stage, and unapologetic about her flaws and about reconciling all of her contradictory feelings and she makes you listen to them and think about them, and yeah, so please be Stevie Nicks. Thank you. (Applause)
Ono što želim da ponesete od ovog govora, naučeno od svega ovoga jest samo biti Stevie Nicks. To je sve što morate učiniti. (Smijeh) Jer je moja omiljena stvar kod nje, osim svega, jest to da je vrlo – uvijek bila nepokorno prisutna na pozornici, nepokorna u svojim manama i pomirena sa svojim kontradiktornim osjećajima i ona te prisiljava da ih slušaš i razmišljaš o njima, i da, molim vas, budite Stevie Nicks. Hvala vam. (Pljesak)