哈佛大學心理學家安巴蒂 (N. Ambady) 則在一場實驗證明了性別刻板印象對數學的影響。實驗中,她找亞裔女大學生考數學,她們是一群雙重刻板印象加身的特殊族群:數學通常比較好的亞洲人;數學通常比較不好的女性。這群亞裔女大學生在考試前被要求填寫不同版本的問卷,一個版本是在喚醒她們的性別身分,另一個版本則是要強化他們的亞洲人背景。
數學作家、譯者,作品散見於聯合報、未來少年、國語日報,與各家網路媒體。師大附中,台大電機畢業。
我深信數學大師約翰·馮·諾伊曼的名言「If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is」。為了讓各位跟我一樣相信這句話,我們得先從數學有多簡單來說起,聊聊數學,也用數學說故事。
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同樣的,讓女性或少數族群擔綱過往由男性把持的英雄角色,也是在提供觀眾一種新的角色模板。例如哈利波特裡最聰明、能力最強的並不是被預言選上唯一能與佛地魔對抗的哈利,而是麻瓜出身的妙麗。先不討論作者 JK 羅琳近年與 LGBTQ 族群起的爭議,在 21 世紀初期,那位願意一拳揍上馬份鼻子、永遠是第一個想出困境解法的年輕女巫可是西方女性培力的代言人,成為許多年輕女孩嚮往與效仿的對象。
或許不是每部影視作品都能像哈利波特或迪士尼形塑一整個世代的社會風氣,又或者像人選之人這樣啟發前所未有的 Me Too 運動,但他們多少反映了我們現在身處的環境,同時為他的改變與延續做出一點貢獻。從這個角度去想,你會發現政治正確並不是現在才有的現象,而是從古至今一直都有的創作取向。而之所以「政治正確」會在現代引起如此大的爭議,其實還得歸功我們成功打破了刻板印象,以致於大家都有了「正確答案不只一種」的認知,這才會對與自身想法不同的答案表達質疑,不是嗎?
對了,你最近看過的戲劇作品中,哪些作品的性別呈現最深得你心呢?歡迎跟我們分享吧!我先說,我自己最愛的是《八尺門的辯護人》裡的 Leena 跟陳令秋,那你呢?
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