I'm very happy to be here in India.

インドにこれて とても嬉しいです

And I've been thinking a lot about what I have learned

この11年間で学んだことをずっと考えています

over these last particularly 11 years

V-Dayや“ヴァギナ モノローグス”を通し

with V-Day and "The Vagina Monologues,"

各国の女性に会い

traveling the world,

女性に対する暴力を止めるため

essentially meeting with women and girls across the planet

世界中を―

to stop violence against women.

駆け回りました

What I want to talk about today

私が今日話したいのは

is this particular cell,

私たちの誰もが持っている―

or grouping of cells, that is in each and every one of us.

特定もしくはグループ細胞についてで

And I want to call it the girl cell.

私はそれを女子細胞と呼びたいと思います

And it's in men as well as in women.

それは男性の中にも存在します

I want you to imagine that this particular grouping of cells

この特定のグループ細胞が 人類進化の―

is central to the evolution of our species

そして人類存続への

and the continuation of the human race.

要だと想像してください

And I want you imagine that at some point in history

歴史の中で

a group of powerful people invested in owning and controlling the world

世界を支配し領有することに専念した

understood that the suppression of this particular cell,

権力者たちは

the oppression of these cells,

この女子細胞を

the reinterpretation of these cells,

制圧 抑圧し―

the undermining of these cells,

衰えさせ

getting us to believe in the weakness of these cells

新たな解釈を加えたり

and the crushing, eradicating, destroying,

この細胞の欠点を私たちに信じさせ

reducing these cells,

減少させ 破壊して粉砕し 根絶することで

basically began the process of killing off the girl cell,

女子細胞を消滅させる過程を開始したのです

which was, by the way, patriarchy.

家父長制社会がその結果です

I want you to imagine that the girl is a chip

女子とは集合意識の総体系の中にある―

in the huge macrocosm of collective consciousness.

チップだと考えてみてください

And it is essential to balance, to wisdom

それは調和や智慧を得る為―

and to actually the future of all of us.

そして私たちの未来にも欠かせないものです

And then I want you to imagine that this girl cell

女子細胞は

is compassion,

厚情であり 共感であり

and it's empathy, and it's passion itself,

情熱そのもの

and it's vulnerability,

それは繊細さであり

and it's openness, and it's intensity,

率直さ厳しさ

and it's association, and it's relationship,

繋がりや結びつきでもあり

and it is intuitive.

直観的なものなの

And then let's think how compassion informs wisdom,

どの様に厚情が智慧に影響を与えるでしょう？

and that vulnerability is our greatest strength,

繊細さは最も優れた長所であり―

and that emotions have inherent logic,

急進かつ適切で 行動の節約へと導く―

which lead to radical, appropriate, saving action.

生得的論理が感情にはあります

And then let's remember that we've been taught

しかしながら私たちは―

the exact opposite by the powers that be,

まるで反対のことを教えられてきたのではないでしょうか？

that compassion clouds your thinking,

厚情は思考を鈍らせ―

that it gets in the way,

妨げる

that vulnerability is weakness,

繊細さは弱さであり

that emotions are not to be trusted,

感情は信用できず―

and you're not supposed to take things personally,

物事を私的に捉えてはいけない

which is one of my favorites.

今のは私のお気に入りね

I think the whole world has essentially

思うに 世界全体が女子にならないよう―

been brought up not to be a girl.

育てられてきたのでは？

How do we bring up boys? What does it mean to be a boy?

“男の子になる” とはどういう意味でしょう？

To be a boy really means not to be a girl.

“男の子になる” とは“女子にならない” という意味なのです

To be a man means not to be a girl.

男になる＝女子にならない

To be a woman means not to be a girl.

女性になる＝女子にならない

To be strong means not to be a girl.

強くなること＝女子にならないこと

To be a leader means not to be a girl.

リーダーになる＝女子にならない

I actually think that

実は “女子になる” ということは

being a girl is so powerful

とても “強力” なのです

that we've had to train everyone not to be that.

だってみんながそうならないように教え込まれてきたのですから

(Laughter)

（拍手）

And I'd also like to say that the irony

皮肉なことに

of course, is that denying girl,

“女子” を否定 制圧し―

suppressing girl, suppressing emotion,

感情を抑え拒絶したことが

refusing feeling has lead thus here.

私たちを今日の世界へと導いたのです

Where we have now come to live in a world where

見るに堪えない貧困

the most extreme forms of violence,

大量殺戮に大量レイプ―

the most horrific poverty,

極度の暴力の種類が蔓延る

genocide, mass rapes,

この制御を失った壊れゆく地球で―

the destruction of the Earth, is completely out of control.

暮らすハメになったのです

And because we have suppressed our girl cells

女子細胞を抑え込み

and suppressed our girl-ship,

「女子らしさ」を制圧した為

we do not feel what is going on.

何が起こっているか感じることができません

So, we are not being charged with

そう 私たちは起きていることに対しての―

the adequate response to what is happening.

十分な感応をゆだねられてないのです

I want to talk a little bit about

私の人生の転換点となった―

the Democratic Republic of Congo.

コンゴ民主共和国について

For me, it was the turning point of my life.

少しお話したいと思います

I have spent a lot of time there in the last three years.

これまでの12年間

I feel up to that point I had seen a lot in the world,

暴力やレイプが蔓延する世界で―

a lot of violence.

多くを見てきたと思っていましたが

I essentially lived in the rape mines of the world for the last 12 years.

コンゴで過ごした最後３年間は

But the Democratic Republic of Congo

私の魂の―

really was the turning point in my soul.

ターニングポイントとなったのです

I went and I spent time

ブカヴ市にある

in a place called Bukavu

パンジー病院では

in a hospital called the Panzi Hospital,

今まで会った誰よりも

with a doctor who was as close to a saint as any person I've ever met.

聖人と呼ぶに相応しいムクワゲ医師と

His name is Dr. Denis Mukwege.

時間を共にしました

In the Congo, for those of you who don't know,

コンゴでは激しい戦争が

there has been a war raging for the last 12 years,

12年間も続いており

a war that has killed nearly six million people.

6百万人もの人が犠牲になっています

It is estimated that somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 women

そして推定で約40万人もの女性が

have been raped there.

レイプされています

When I spent my first weeks at Panzi hospital

パンジー病院での最初の一週間―

I sat with women

自らに起こった出来事を

who sat and lined up every day to tell me their stories.

話してくれる為に列をなす女性たちと共に過ごしました

Their stories were so horrific,

彼女たちの物語はあまりに信じ難く

and so mind-blowing and so on the other side of human existence,

人間の持つ恐ろしい側面には

that to be perfectly honest with you, I was shattered.

正直 精神を砕かれました

And I will tell you that what happened

その内容を

is through that shattering,

お話します

listening to the stories of eight-year-old girls who had their insides eviscerated,

内臓を取り除かれ 銃やナイフなどを―

who had guns and bayonets and things shoved inside them

体内に押しこまれた8歳の女の子たち

so they had holes, literally, inside them

文字通り “穴” を開けられ

where their pee and poop came out of them.

そこからは尿や便が流れ出る

Listening to the story of 80-year-old women

鎖に縛られ

who were tied to chains and circled,

複数の男に囲まれ

and where groups of men would come and rape them periodically,

断続的にレイプされた80歳の女性

all in the name of economic exploitation

全ては経済的搾取という名のもとに

to steal the minerals so the West can have it and profit from them.

鉱物を奪い先進国に売りつけ利益得る為に

My mind was so shattered.

私の心は粉々になってしまいました

But what happened for me is that that shattering

でも その粉砕こそが

actually emboldened me

私を後押ししてくれ―

in a way I have never been emboldened.

今までに無かった形で励ましてくれたの

That shattering, that opening of my girl cell,

打ち砕かれたことによって私の女子細胞を開花し―

that kind of massive breakthrough of my heart

心の壁を突き破ることで 今までの私よりも

allowed me to become more courageous, and braver,

より勇敢により強く

and actually more clever

そしてより賢くなることを

than I had been in the past in my life.

可能にしてくれたのです

I want to say that I think the powers that be

権力者は知っているのだと思います

know that empire-building

感情こそが

is actually -- that feelings get in the way of empire-building.

勢力の拡大や地球の資源搾取―

Feelings get in the way of the mass acquisition of the Earth,

破壊行為を

and excavating the Earth, and destroying things.

妨げるものであることを

I remember, for example, when my father,

例えば私の父

who was very, very violent, used to beat me.

父はとても暴力的でよく暴力を振るわれました

And he would actually say, while he was beating me,

私を殴る時はいつも こう言うのです

"Don't you cry. Don't you dare cry."

“泣くんじゃない 泣いたら承知しないぞ”

Because my crying somehow exposed his brutality to him.

まるで私の涙が自身の残忍さを露呈させるかのように

And even in the moment he didn't want to be reminded

一瞬でさえも 自分のやっていることを

of what he was doing.

認識させられたくなかったのです

I know that we have systematically annihilated the girl cell.

私たちは意図的に女子細胞を壊滅させたのです

And I want to say we've annihilated it in men as well as in women.

男だけでなく女の中の女子細胞までね

And I think in some ways

そしてどこか私たちは

we've been much harsher to men

男の女子細胞の壊滅には―

in the annihilation of their girl cell.

より手厳しく対処してきたでしょう

(Applause)

（拍手）

I see how boys have been brought up, and I see this across the planet:

世界中で男の子がどのように育てられいるか見てきました

to be tough, to be hardened,

強くなる為に 非情になる為に―

to distance themselves from their tenderness, to not cry.

自身の持つ優しさから遠ざけ 涙を流させないのです

I actually realized once in Kosovo,

コソボで理解したことがあります

when I watched a man break down,

崩れ落ちる男を見た時

that bullets are actually hardened tears,

銃弾は涙を凝固させ―

that when we don't allow men to have their girl self

“女子”の要素である繊細さなどの心を持たせないことは

and have their vulnerability, and have their compassion,

彼らを非情にさせ

and have their hearts, that they become hardened and hurtful

より危険に より暴力的に―

and violent.

させるのです

And I think we have taught men to be secure

これまで私たちは 男に対し教育してきましたー

when they are insecure,

自信が無くても自信を持つように―

to pretend they know things when they don't know things,

理解してなくても理解したフリをするように

or why would we be where we are?

でなければ私達はここまで来れなかった

To pretend they're not a mess when they are a mess.

困窮時にはそうでないフリをする様に教えてきたのでは？

And I will tell you a very funny story.

ここでおもしろい話をひとつ

On my way here on the airplane, I was walking up and down the aisle of the plane.

ここへの飛行機の中で私は通路を行き来してたのだけど

And all these men, literally at least 10 men,

少なくとも10人以上の男たちは小さな座席にちょこんと座り

were in their little seats watching chick flicks.

ラブロマンスの映画ばかり見ていたのです

And they were all alone, and I thought, "This is the secret life of men."

こう思いました “これが隠された男の正体ね”

(Laughter)

（笑）

I've traveled, as I said,

前にも言ったように

to many, many countries,

私は世界中を周り多くを見てきました

and I've seen, if we do what we do to the girl inside us

女子細胞への仕打ちを考えれば

then obviously it's horrific to think

“生身の” 女子たちがどんな目に遭っているか？

what we do to girls in the world.

想像するのも恐ろしいのです

And we heard from Sunitha yesterday,

昨日 スニータやカヴィータからも―

and Kavita about what we do to girls.

何が起こってるか聞きましたよね？

But I just want to say that

これまで酷い扱いを受けた女子に会いました

I've met girls with knife wounds and cigarette burns,

切り傷とタバコの焼印だらけで―

who are literally being treated like ashtrays.

文字通り灰皿代わりにされた女の子たち

I've seen girls be treated like garbage cans.

ゴミ箱のように扱われ

I've seen girls who were beaten by their mothers

親兄弟から親族から―

and brothers and fathers and uncles.

暴力を受ける女の子たち

I've seen girls starving themselves to death in America

アメリカの施設では“理想の体型” の為に

in institutions to look like some idealized version of themselves.

自ら餓死寸前になる女の子たち

I've seen that we cut girls and we control them

女性性器を切除し 操作し―

and we keep them illiterate,

読み書きをできないままにさせる

or we make them feel bad about being too smart.

聡明すぎることへの―

We silence them. We make them feel guilty

罪悪感を負わせ 黙らせる

for being smart. We get them to behave,

行儀よくしろと言われ

to tone it down, not to be too intense.

感情を抑え慎めと教えられ

We sell them, we kill them as embryos,

売り飛ばし 中絶させ―

we enslave them, we rape them.

支配し レイプする

We are so accustomed to robbing girls

自分の人生の中で主体であろうとする

of the subject of being the subjects of their lives

女の子たちの自我を奪うことに慣れ

that we have now actually objectified them

今では実際に客体化させ―

and turned them into commodities.

商品にしてしまったのです

The selling of girls is rampant across the planet.

人身売買は世界中に蔓延り

And in many places they are worth less than goats and cows.

多くの場合 彼女たちは家畜以下の値段で売られます

But I also want to talk about the fact that

しかし世界の人口の

if one in eight people on the planet

８人に１人が10歳から24歳の女子という

are girls between the ages of 10 to 24,

事実を踏まえると

they are they key, really, in the developing world,

彼女たちは発展途上国を含む世界全体―

as well as in the whole world, to the future of humanity.

人類の未来へのカギなのです

And if girls are in trouble because they face systematic disadvantages

彼女たちが困難な状況にあるのは

that keep them where society wants them to be,

教育や栄養のある食事、医療サービスを得難く

including lack of access to healthcare,

肉体労働への強制参加を含む

education, healthy foods,

組織的な状況が彼女たちを

labor force participation.

社会が望む位置へ押しこめているからです

The burden of all the household tasks

その境界を越えることが無いように

usually falls on girls and younger siblings,

家事の重荷は大抵―

which ensures that they will never overcome these barriers.

女の子か若い家族メンバーに課せられます

The state of girls, the condition of girls,

女の子の環境や状況が―

will, in my belief -- and that's the girl inside us

内側の“女子” と 外側の“女子”が―

and the girl in the world -- determine whether

人類残存を決定することになると―

the species survives.

信じてます

And what I want to suggest is that,

女の子たちと話をしていくことで

having talked to girls, because I just finished a new book called

「私は感情的なイキモノ ～隠された女子の物語～」

"I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World,"

という本を書き上げました

I've been talking to girls for five years,

５年間 女の子と話してきましたが

and one of the things that I've seen is true everywhere

何処に行ってもある“言葉”が―

is that the verb that's been enforced on girl

いつも女の子に強要されているのです

is the verb "to please."

“奉仕”という言葉

Girls are trained to please.

女の子は奉仕するように訓練されてます

I want to change the verb.

この言葉を変えたい

I want us all to change the verb.

みんなでこの言葉を―

I want the verb to be "educate,"

“教育” に

or "activate," or "engage,"

“積極的” や “没頭” に

or "confront," or "defy," or "create."

“戦う” “抵抗” “創造” へと変えるのです

If we teach girls to change the verb

彼女たちに この言葉を変えることを教えれば―

we will actually enforce the girl inside us

私たちの中の“女子”を―

and the girl inside them.

守ることができるのです

And I have to now share a few stories

世界中で会った女の子たちの話を

of girls I've seen across the planet

いくつかしたいと思います

who have engaged their girl,

彼女たちの周りにある厳しい環境にも関わらず

who have taken on their girl in spite of

自分の中の“女子”を信じ―

all the circumstances around them.

受け入れた彼女たちの話を

I know a 14-year-old girl in the Netherlands,

14歳のオランダ人の女の子は

for example, who is demanding that she take a boat

ボートに乗って世界中を１人で―

and go around the entire world by herself.

旅しようとしている

There is a teenage girl who just recently

顔の右半分に―

went out and knew that she needed 56 stars

56つの星のタトゥーを入れた―

tattooed on the right side of her face.

10代の女の子

There is a girl, Julia Butterfly Hill,

自然にあるオークの木を守る為

who lived for a year in a tree

１年間 木の上で生活した―

because she wanted to protect the wild oaks.

ジュリアという女の子

There is a girl who I met 14 years ago in Afghanistan

14年前アフガニスタンで会った女の子は

who I have adopted as my daughter

革命家の母親を殺されてしまい

because her mother was killed. Her mother was a revolutionary.

私は彼女を養子にしました

And this girl, when she was 17 years old,

17歳の時 ブルカの下にカメラを隠し

wore a burqa in Afghanistan,

アフガニスタンで女性に対して

and went into the stadiums

残虐な行為を行っている場所に潜入し

and documented the atrocities that were going on towards women,

ブルカの下に隠したカメラで その様子を―

underneath her burqa, with a video.

記録したのです

And that video became the video that went out all over the world

そのビデオは911の後 世界中に広がり―

after 9/11 to show what was going on in Afghanistan.

アフガニスタンの中で何が起こっているかを世界に見せたのです