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)
Pre četiri godine, tačno na današnji dan osnovala sam blog o modi pod nazivom Style Rookie. Prošlog septembra, 2011. osnovala sam internet časopis za tinejdžerke pod nazivom Rookiemag.com. Zovem se Tavi Gevinson a naslov mog govora je "Još pokušavam da shvatim" a to što su slajdovi napravljeni u MS Paintu je samo kreativna odluka u skladu sa današnjom temom, i nema veze sa mojom nesposobnošću da koristim PowerPoint. (Smeh)
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 sajt za tinejdžerke. Feministkinja sam. Na neki način sam zaluđenik za pop kulturu i često se pitam od čega je sačinjena jedna snažna ženksa ličnost, i znate, filmovi i TV emisije, te stvari imaju uticaja. Pa i moj sajt. Mislim da je pitanje, šta čini jednu žensku ličnost snažnom, često pogrešno protumačeno, zato imamo ove dvodimenzionalne super žene koje možda imaju jednu istaknutu osobinu, kao što je Ženamačka ili previše koristi svoju seksualnost a mi to vidimo kao moć. Ali one nisu jake ličnosti koje su slučajno žene. One su potpuno prazne, one su prosto kartonski likovi. Problem je, onda, u tome što ljudi smatraju da je žene lako razumeti, a one su ljute na sebe jer nisu toliko jednostavne zato što su, u stvari, žene vrlo komplikovane, žene su višeslojne - ne zato što što su one lude već zato što su ljudi ludi, a žene su slučajno ljudi. (Smeh)
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.
Dakle, mane su ključ. Ja nisam prva koja ovo govori. Ono što čini jednu snažnu žensku ličnost jeste ličnost koja ima slabosti, koja ima mane, koja možda, na prvi pogled i nije prijatna, ali u kojima se možete pronaći.
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)
Ja ne volim da govorim o problemu, a da ne pomenem one koji rade na njegovom rešenju, pa bih zato istakla serije kao što su: "Momci sa Medisona", filmove kao što su "Deveruše", gde su ženski likovi, glavne uloge, kompleksni i višeslojni. Lena Danam, koja govori ovde, u svojoj emisiji na HBO ‚‚Devojke'', koja se premijerno emituje sledećeg meseca, rekla je da želi da je emituje jer oceća da je svaka žena koju poznaje samo gomila suprotnosti, a to se odnosi na sve ljude, ali tako predstavljene žene ne viđamo često. Čestitam, društvo. (Smeh)
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 da - i dalje smatram da postoji tip žena koje nisu predstavljene na taj način, a jedna takva grupa o kojoj danas govorimo su tinejdžeri, jer ja misim da su tinejdžeri naročito kontradiktorni i još uvek pokušavaju da shvate. Devedesetih godina, serija "Freaks and Geeks" i "Moj takozvani život" i njihovi likovi Lindzi Vir i Anđela Čejs, mislim, sama osnovna ideja ovih serija, je da se oni, jednostavno, trude da upoznaju sebe, ali sve te serije su trajale samo po jednu sezonu, i od tada nisam videla ništa slično na televiziji.
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.
Ovo je naučni prikaz mog mozga - (Smeh) - iz perioda kada sam počela da gledam te serije. Završila sam osnovnu školu i krenula u srednju, sada sam na drugoj godini studija, pokušavala sam da prevaziđem sve te suprotnosti za koje kažu da su neostvarive u odrastanju jedne devojčice. Ne možeš da budeš i lepa i pametna. Ne možes da budeš femistkinja koju se interesuje za modu. Ne možeš da brineš o odeći, ako to nije zbog toga šta će drugi, obično muškarci, da misle o tebi.
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.
Pkušavala sam da sve to razumem, osetila sam se pomalo zbunjeno, pisala sam o tome na svom blogu i rekla sam da bih želela da osnujem vebsajt za tinejdžerke koji neće predstavljati ovu vrstu snažnih jednodimenzionalnih likova jer smatram da pogrešno doživljen feminizam može da postane veoma odbojan devojkama jer misle da se od njih, kao od feministkinja, očekuje budu uvek potpuno istrajne u svojim uverenjima, da nikada nisu nesigurne, da nikada ne sumnjaju i da uvek imaju odgovor. A to nije istina, u stvari, mirenje svih tih suprotnosti koje sam ja osećela postalo je mnogo lakše kada sam shvatila da feminizam nije pravilnik već rasprava razgovor, proces, a ovo je deo iz mog porošlogodišnjeg izdanja gde sam - mislim da sam malo preterala sa ilustracijama 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.
Napisala sam na blogu da želim da pokrenem ovo izdanje za tinejdžerke i da zamolim ljude da pošalju svoje tekstove, fotografije i te stvari, da bi postali član našeg osoblja. Dobila sam oko 3.000 mailova. Moj urednik i ja smo ih sve pregledali i sastavili smo osoblje i pokrenuli ga prošlog septembra. Ovo je isečak iz mog prvog pisma urednika u kome sam naglasila da Rookie nema odgovore na sva pitanja i da i mi pokušavamo da shvatimo, ali suština nije u tome da devojkama damo odgovore, nije čak ni da im damo dozvolu da same dođu do odgovora, nego u nadi da ćemo ih insipirsati da razumeju da same sebi mogu da dozvole da postave svoja pitanja, da nađu svoje odgovore, uz sve ovo i Rookie, mislim da smo pokušali da stvorimo prijatno mesto za sve što tek treba razumeti.
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."
Ne želim da kažem: "Budite kao mi." ili "Mi smo svršen uzor", zato što nismo, samo želimo da pomognemo u predstavljanju devojaka na način koji prikazuje sve te različite dimenzije. Imamo članke koji se zovu: "O shvatanju samog sebe ozbiljno: Kako da vas ne zanima šta drugi misle o vama", ali imamo i članke kao, ups - pokušavam da shvatim! Ha ha. (Smeh) Ako koristite ovo, iz svega ćete se izvući. Takođe imamo članak koji se zove
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.
"Kako da izgledaš kao da nisi upravo plakala, za manje od pet minuta". Pošto sam sve ovo rekla, ja stvarno cenim sve te likove u filmovima i člancima kao što su ovi na našem sajtu koji ne govore o posedovanju potpune moći, već možda o pronalaženju i prihvatanju samog sebe
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)
o samopoštovanju i manama i kako da ih prihvatimo. Ono što želim da upamtite iz mog govora je, lekcija o svemu ovome, samo budite Stivi Niks. To je sve što treba da uradite. (Smeh) Jer moja omiljena stvar kod nje, osim svega, je da je ona vrlo - i uvek je bila bez pardona prisutna na sceni i bez pardona za svoje mane i za mirenje svih svojih suprotstavljenih osećanja i prosto vas tera da ih saslušate i da razmislite o njima, i da, molim vas, budite Stivi Niks.