247 - What Is This Thing?
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1mguZsgg 关键词:Love, Media,LGBT 这是情人节前的一期,讲了几个romance和有关romance的故事。都不是传统Romance。开篇讲了二战后抛弃ex闪婚的男人,后来在三十年后两人抛弃旧爱在一起了,两个人至今相爱如初。 act one,讲romance写手们贩卖自己作品的故事,里面有趣的是提到,虽然veryone I talked to at the conference-- every reader, writer, and editor-- said she believed in romance, and believed it happens in real life. And sometimes in real life, it even follows the rules of a romance novel. 最后提到了一个作家亲身的爱情故事,她的爸爸几十年对家人不离不弃,我学到两个好词:unwavering和unconditional,这是那个时代才有的爱情故事吧。 act two,testosterone里面的trans继续做客这一期,讲述trans找寻真爱的故事,真的蛮奇葩的,其中一个transman把LGBT四种都出柜过了……美国社会真的在2003年就那么宽容了啊。 我还很好奇地去搜了作者,原来跟我是同行!以及他现在的照片真的看不出是个post woman,应该说,照片让我大跌眼镜把。。 http://griffinhansbury.com/ act three,讲Johnny cash和june carter的故事,一个曲折虐人的爱情故事被缩减成10分钟后变成一个从一而终的romance了。
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204 - 81 Words
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1sjLT1Qt 关键词:LGBT, sexuality, psychology 这一期的Alix Spiegel通过一个有趣的引子,她的grandpa讲了1973年DSM怎么把对homo的81 words改成273 words(去病理化),最终又默默从DSM中消失了。 这不是一次个人英雄的胜利,是通过insider和outsider的共同努力完成的。wiki上还有这期的词条,获得了很多新闻奖。 220 - Testosterone
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1pJkdBo3 关键词:LGBT, sexuality, psychology, family 这一期超级赞,配乐也很赞,特别是前两个故事,听傻了都。Testosterone睾丸素,这个激素的水平是怎么对一个人的行为模式和性格产生改变的,这期异常生动地从各个角度表达出来了。 前篇说这期producer的Alex小时候看了一本书The Women's Room,从此改变了对男人的看法。他发现睾丸素水平的确在影响自己的生活方方面面。 Act1,讲述了一个因为疾病有四个月没有分泌睾丸素的男人,世界是变得如何得incredible的。简要说,这个人就是变成了一个complete dispassionate和objective的人,看什么都觉得"That is beautiful." Act2,最喜欢的故事,坦白说听的时候觉得人生观被颠覆了。。先是stunned,然后只能sigh。讲述名校Bryan Marr的一个非常hip和popular的dyke(lesbian),butch,突然有一天心血来潮给自己注射了超过男性平均水准的睾丸素,然后世界就变了。。TA除了生理上的appearance变成了男性,思考模式也变成了男性,非常erotic,走在大街上看到美女就忍不住性冲动(libido),看到Xerox machine(复印机)和convertible(敞篷车)都觉得drive me crazy。 他不得不重新学着与女性沟通的方式,还很忧伤地觉得自己已经不cool了,没法自在与女性交朋友。(想下辈子做男人的T你们慎重)而且由于自己变性了,找工作的时候不能说自己是Bryan Marr毕业的,只好委屈自己说隔壁Haverford毕业的,同事们都不知道自己其实以前是女的,觉得自己不再fascinating,笑死了。唯一觉得开心的是,别人开始叫他sir了。他说,现在他变得既懂女人也懂男人,如果开个网上专栏"Ask a Guy Who Used to Be a Girl." 一定赚得盆满钵满。这个故事要听才知道有多有趣。 Act3,TAL的工作人员都来测睾丸素指标,用spit(saliva)来测,结果一个做过演员的基佬和一个很pushy很bossy的女人最高,表示指标最低的人很不高兴。“What scientific studies can tell us is that in general, more testosterone does not mean you're a more successful person. In fact, blue-collar workers tend to have more testosterone than white collar workers, and unemployed men have more than either group. Actors and trial lawyers, people who basically go onstage in one way or another, tend to have very high testosterone levels.Higher testosterone correlates with baldness and with bigger muscles. And researchers say that people with lots of testosterone have a wolfish smile. And people with less testosterone have a kinder smile, and they smile more often, as if to say, "Don't hurt me." Testosterone goes up when you score a victory at something. It goes down when you suffer a defeat. In one study of World Cup soccer fans watching a match on television, testosterone dropped in fans of the losing team and rose in the fans of the winning team.” Act4,一个妈妈养了一个女儿一个儿子,女儿看上去很开朗能说,但儿子的少言寡语却让妈妈担忧。她一开始不能理解,想方设法了解儿子,最终找到了一个合适的“交流方式”。最让我动容的其实是这段: -Mum:Is there anything about girls that you envy? -Son:No, nothing, nothing. -What about their, it seems, their ability to talk about how they feel about things easier? -Sure, yeah. -You envy that? -I definitely envy that. 268 - My Experimental Phase
下载: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1bn2cTNT 这一期讲了人们一生中某一个experimental phase。 关键词:LGBT,religion, music, sex #1故事,讲一个异性恋不顺家庭破裂的姑娘开始认为自己是lesbian,就很femmy地做起butch,她很彻底地只混圈,只跟妹纸玩,在费城gay报工作,结果做了两年发现自己还是straight…… #2故事,讲纽约离Manhattan只有一站之隔的Jews区Williamsburg有两个“反叛”的年轻人开始做很有特色的摇滚,最后又不得不重返过去生活的故事。这个区的人原本连Radio和MTV是什么都不知道。结婚也是家长来面试新郎官的,然后说定就结婚了。相比故事本身,我对这种生活在modern lifa之外的形如19世纪的community更好奇。有机会想去一见啊。 #3故事,讲LA有个stage show,叫Mortified,每天都有人上台念自己的儿时日记(寂寞的米国人……),其中有个Sascha的姑娘,13岁日记讲了自己怎么从Miami的Jewish传统家庭和私校环境转到YD的LA pupblic school读书并且到处瞎搞的(bitch即视感,还说自己好popular好scandalous)。结尾曲很funny,是Pink的Dear Diary。 293 - A Little Bit of Knowledge
关键词:Family,LGBT,Dream 下崽:http://pan.baidu.com/s/1i3vLdB3 这期主要讲了当人们只知道片面的事实时,会发生的故事。开篇就提到人们往往会有一些知识盲区,可能从小就有的奇葩误区,会保留到长大。比如有人一直觉得unicorn是一种濒临灭绝的endangered species。。有人一直以为misled是misle的过去式。。很多人甚至会相信一些其实外人看来完全是nonsense的事情。 Act One提到的最让我动容的,是一个关于Tissue Box的故事,讲述一个穷人家孩子,妹妹和姐姐圣诞节收到了tissue box,妹妹看到这个ugly的盒子都快哭了,姐姐说这个盒子painted by trained monkeys。妹妹如何相信了十年,最后又了解到真相的。 后面提到:She had always been jealous of her sister, always wanted to be the big sister. But reading her sister's story that day made her realize how responsible her sister felt for her, and for their entire family, and how there were benefits to being the baby. It was good to learn all that. Act Two,讲述一对gay,在加州同志婚姻合法化后,家里人建议结婚,但是他们7岁的adopted son却不同意。因为这个小孩DJ知道有异性恋结婚后离婚的事。且听小孩最后又如何希望家里的两位爸爸结婚的。 “I changed my mind. Why? You and dad have to stay together forever. We will, I said. We love each other and always will. DJ sat up on the couch and looked me in the eye. I want you and Daddy to promise, to pinky promise, to seriously and forever promise, and no breaking your promise. You want us to get married then, I said. Yes. And there it was, my reward for a sleepless night. My son was giving me his blessing to marry. I'll tell Terry, I said. We'll see what Daddy says.” Act Three,讲述一个只有中学物理水平的Bob,突然有天“发现”爱因斯坦的相对论是错的,然后花了一年时间开始做他的研究验证自己的想法……在这里面,我觉得最动容的是他老婆的话: “I think it would be a huge blow to his ego. It wouldn't change anything for me, as far as how I feel about him. He'd still be Bob, and he'd still be the man I love, and I'd still be in love with him. You have got to love him, man. It's either you love him or hate them. It's like he can be an arrogant son of a bitch. You live with the good and the bad. There's so much more to him than that, than that uncombed and unkempt hair, and the fact that he doesn't keep doctors' appointments, or make them, which makes me the nagging, bitching wife, but that's OK. It's part of the package.” Act Four,一个McCullors式的故事。一个小孩从小就和外婆关系异常好,但有天她突然开始怀疑这个关系背后的意义……最终她伤害了这段感情。个人还是非常喜欢这个故事的,通过孩子的角度道出了成人关系中的问题。 |