天了嚕！印度高官呼吁外國女性在印不要穿裙子.

　　There was uproar at the weekend when Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said that a list given to tourists at airports advised them not to wear skirts or dresses in India or venture out alone at night in small towns

　　上周末印度發(fā)生了一些騷亂，起原因是印度文化部部長夏爾馬在機場發(fā)放的旅游手冊上給出了一些建議，要求游客在印度不要穿著裙子或晚禮服，也不要晚上在小城鎮(zhèn)里獨自外出。

　　Sadly, he is not the first - and he certainly won’t be the last - to deliver such advice to women on how to keep themselves safe and avoid rape.

　　可悲的是，他不是第一個這么建議婦女保護自己、避免被強奸的人，肯定也不會是最后一個。

　　Time and again, ministers, politicians and other influential community leaders have been telling women and girls not to wear jeans, short skirts, dresses or shorts. Women have also been told not to go out after dark, date, be friends with boys, or even use mobile phones.

　　一次又一次，印度政府部門部長、政客、及其他頗有影響的組織領導人都一直在告誡婦女們不要穿著牛仔褲、短裙、裙子和短褲。婦女們也被告誡不要在天黑以后出門，不要和男人們約會、交朋友，甚至不要使用手機。

　　Since the brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a bus in December 2012 in Delhi, there is much more scrutiny within India - and globally - of what influential people and opinion makers say about violence against women.

　　自從2012年12月德里一名23歲大學生在公交車上慘遭輪奸殺害以來，在印度和整個世界都有更多的目光來監(jiān)督有影響力人物和輿論家，看看他們在針對女性的暴力犯罪案件上到底是何態(tài)度。

　　The justification offered by many in India’s largely paternalistic society is that these remarks are well meaning and actually meant to protect women.

　　在印度這個高度家長式的社會中，許多人都為這些荒唐的言論辯護，認為這些言論都是善意的，其目的是為了保護婦女。

　　But women activists and commentators disagree - they say that there’s no correlation between short skirts and rape.

　　但是女性活動家和評論家們則持有不同意見--他們認為短裙和強奸案之間沒有相關性。

　　"It’s very very important that these politicians stop telling women what sort of clothes to wear or what not to wear," Swati Maliwal, chi of Delhi Commission for Women, told the BBC.

　　“德里婦女委員會”領頭人斯瓦特告訴BBC說道：“應該讓這些政客們不再對婦女們指手畫腳，不再告訴婦女們應該穿什么、不該穿什么，這非常非常重要?！?/p>

　　"It’s time they stop trivialising issues like rape and sexual harassment and do something constructive to address these serious problems."

　　“他們應該停止輕視像強奸和性騷擾這樣的事，應該采取一些有建設性的措施來解決這些嚴重的問題。”