Of course much of this was tongue-in-cheek, but what it shows is how that word feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: you hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don’t wear make-up, you don’t shave, you’re always angry, you don’t have a sense of humour, you don’t use deodorant.
让我想到 #SpracheUndSein 里面写到的,人们认为穆斯林不能是 feminist,feminist 不应该戴头巾。
#WeShouldAllBeFeminists #读书
she waited for my mother to make up her mind whether she would go as well or not. Since for most of her life my mother’s mind, belonging first to her father and then to her husband, had not been hers to make up, she was finding it difficult to come to a decision.
‘Lucia,’ she sighed, ‘why do you keep bothering me with this question? Does it matter what I want? Since when has it mattered what I want? So why should it start mattering now? Do you think I wanted to be impregnated by that old dog? Do you think I wanted to travel all this way across this country of our forefathers only to live in dirt and poverty? Do you really think I wanted the child for whom I made the journey to die only five years after it left the womb? Or my son to be taken from me? So what difference does it make whether I have a wedding or whether I go? It is all the same. What I have endured for nineteen years I can endure for another nineteen, and nineteen more if need be. Now leave me! Leave me to rest.’
how dreadfully familiar that scene had been, with Babamukuru condemning Nyasha to whoredom, making her a victim of her femaleness, just as I had felt victimised at home in the days when Nhamo went to school and I grew my maize. The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn’t depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn’t depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them. Even heroes like Babamukuru did it. And that was the problem. You had to admit that Nyasha had no tact. You had to admit she was altogether too volatile and strong-willed. You couldn’t ignore the fact that she had no respect for Babamukuru when she ought to have had lots of it. But what I didn’t like was the way all the conflicts came back to this question of femaleness. Femaleness as opposed and inferior to maleness.
Three young men came up to me and told me they fancied me, but I could see from the way they talked that they really fancied themselves.
其实我真的不认识些什么毕不了业的人,除了我室友,但我室友的情况是,他课很早就上得差不多了,只是毕业设计写了四遍,包括开始了但没注册的、最后论文字数不够、交上去挂了的。
论文通过之后他没拿毕业证就工作了一年,失业之后才发现他还有一门实验课没上,于是他先家里蹲了一年,再花了一整学期上这么一门实验课,上完了之后他意外发现他还缺几个学分,于是他又花了一整个学期上这么一门四学分的课(一般一学期是三十个学分),直到考试前两星期才开始认真看课程视频,一天看一两节,考试前一天才刷了半道题,第二天不出所料地挂掉了,现在他又找到了新的工作,但名义上还是学生。
⬆️这是德国硕士生的水平,你们讲德国毕业率的时候请不要跟这种人比。
德国毕业难度的话…我觉得大家就自行掂量一下自己在国内的成绩吧,如果在国内成绩尚可的话,来德国也不至于很难。德国毕业率我觉得水分非常大,这里面有很多不把正经上课拿毕业证当回事儿的德国人,他们可能想吃学生证福利,所以尽量拖延,每学期就上一两门课,还不好好考试。他们也没有国内那种大一大二大三大四按部就班的概念,有人读个一年就换专业,再读一年又换专业,或者读到一半去工作了,读到一半不喜欢转去职业学校了,这种人能按时毕业才怪了。我觉得中国学生真的很急,一学期能塞多少课就塞多少课,也不打工,就想早点毕业,但德国这边不按时毕业还蛮正常的。
毕业率当然跟难度也有关系,不清楚大家来德国是想读本科还是读硕士。如果是硕士的话其实难度正常的,本科才会难很多,但我觉得这是德国大学本科非常好的一点,就是他们的课不是能水过去的,要求学生扎扎实实地学。加上基本不收学费、可以随意换专业&转学、可以同时读多个学位这几点,我认为对于诚心求学的人是重大利好。难度也跟学校有关,有些大学不仅考试题目不难,还允许学生多次刷分。还有些专业也会比另一些专业难,所以可以多听听看学长学姐的经验。如果只是想混毕业证的话,可以考虑英授硕士,难度会低一些。