Why Women Need Iron | 為什麼女性也要舉鐵

【譯文】

女性需要的不是維生素，

而是鐵，是杠鈴。

世俗向我們灌輸狹隘的身材觀念；

是舉鐵，解放了我們的天性。

世俗要求我們：要瘦，要瘦，要瘦到不佔一寸土地；

是舉鐵，告訴我們，要找回自我的存在，重視自己的位置。

世俗告誡我們：體重秤上的數字要越小越好，每上升的0.01都恨不得如臨大敵，哭天搶地；

是舉鐵，讓我們學會為力量而增重，讓我們擁有了比體重更重要的數字——舉鐵的重量！

世俗訓誡我們：淑女皆為小鳥胃，食物是魔鬼，大快朵頤即犯罪。

是舉鐵，教會我們享受食物，讓我們視食物為生活的動力，從而自覺尋找有營養的食物而非掙扎在垃圾食品的漩渦中。

世俗教育我們：女性的身體如同裝飾，優美則矣；

是舉鐵，令我們明白：女性的身體一樣有力，要積極尋求自我，而非被動等待他人欣賞。

畸形的社會以貶低我們實現相關產業的盈利，以宣揚外在價值的手段，把自信回「賣」給我們；是舉鐵，以有計劃的訓練手段幫我們達成可量化的進步，令我們重拾自信。

世俗訓導我們：女性要溫順，要淑女，要隱藏力量，捧心西子才是美。

終於，連我們自己都相信：女性天生是弱者；

是舉鐵，讓我們知道：生而為女，可以如此強大。——太后譯

亦感謝金妞妞為本譯文做出的貢獻

【原文】

Women need iron. Not the vitamin. The barbell.

We are trained by the world around us to have fucked up ideas about our bodies; iron unfucks them.

We are supposed to be as thin as possible, as small as possible, perhaps until we disappear; iron teaches us to take up space.

We are taught that the only good direction for the scale to go is down, and to agonize ritualistically when it goes up. Iron teaches us the power of gaining weight for strength and gives us another weight to care about – the weight we are lifting.

We are taught to eat small amounts daintily and treat food as sin and pleasure. Iron teaches us to eat heartily, to see food as fuel for life, and to seek out nutritious food rather than avoiding sinful food.

We are taught to think of our bodies as decorative, an object to be looked at; iron teaches us to think of our bodies as functional, our own active selves, not passive objects for another』s regard.

Whole industries exist to profit by removing from us our confidence and selling it back as external objects. Iron gives us confidence from within through progressive training and measurable achievements.

We are taught to be gentle and hide our strength or even to cultivate charming physical weakness until we start to believe our bodies are weak. Iron teaches us how strong we can be. ~ AK Krajewska

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