Their Bodies, Ourselves我的身體我做主

by Megan Garber

Arony 譯

Their Bodies, Ourselves我的身體我做主

by Megan Garber

Arony 譯

Angelina Jolie, in publicly airing the details of a surgery that forced her into early1)menopause, is taking an activist approach to oversharing.

Let’s talk about menopause.Or let’s talk, at least, about Angelina Jolie.The actress, flmmaker, and advocate recently underwent surgery that removed her2)ovariesand3)fallopian tubes—and that, as a result, put her into forced menopause at the age of 39.Jolie wrote about the surgery, and its effects, in Tuesday’sNew York Times.“I will not be able to have any more children,” she writes, “and I expect some physical changes.But I feel at ease with whatever will come, not because I am strong but because this is a part of life.It is nothing to be feared.”

That Jolie would undergo the surgery she did, given her genetic risk for ovarian and breast cancers—she lost her mother, her grandmother, and her aunt to the disease—is not in itself terribly noteworthy; it was a decision she made, she writes, after long consideration, and with input from medical professionals both “Eastern and Western.” What is noteworthy, though, is the fact that Jolie detailed the decision in the pages of the New York Times.Even in the age of U.S.Weekly and TMZ, celebrities’ personal health is still generally regarded as, you know, personal.And reproductive health even more so.What Jolie is making, by being public about her surgery, is a subtly political point: She’s breaking the barrier between reproductive health and health in general.

安吉麗娜·朱麗公開了自己手術的細節，這個手術讓她提前進入了更年期，她以一位活動家的身份來大量公開這些細節。

我們來聊聊更年期。或者至少聊聊安吉麗娜·朱麗。這位女演員、導演、倡導者最近做了切除子宮和輸卵管的手術，這讓她39歲就進入了人為性更年期。朱麗在周二的《紐約時報》上就這個手術及其結果寫了一篇文章。“我將不能再生小孩，”她這樣寫道，“我會面臨一些身體上的變化。但我對將要發生的事情感到坦然，不是因為我很堅強，而是因為這就是生活的一部分。沒什么要恐懼的。”

朱麗做手術這件事情本身無甚值得大驚小怪的，畢竟她有患卵巢癌和乳腺癌的遺傳風險，她的母親、外祖母和阿姨都因此病去世；她這樣寫道，那是她自己做的決定，經長期考慮，并咨詢了“東西方”的專業醫生。而值得關注的是朱麗在《紐約時報》上詳述這個決定這件事。即使是在《美國周報》和《TMZ》時代，名人的個人健康仍然被看作，呃，隱私。而生殖健康就更是如此了。通過公開這次手術，朱麗在表達一個溫和的政治觀點：她要打破生殖健康和健康之間的界限。

美麗與健康有沖突嗎？我們都知道健康是美麗的前提，但明星和媒體卻告訴我們：胖子是沒有未來的、沒有丑女人只有懶女人、美麗是需要付出代價的……這些美麗的“標準”很可能會給我們的身體和心理造成傷害，以傷害自身來刻意塑造的“美麗”不會持久，也不是真正的美。