Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

  • -- Mary Douglas 玛丽·道格拉斯

真正的平等是非常难以实现的,它需要不断地修订和监测分布。而且它不提供成员之间的缓冲区,因此它们之间不断地发生冲突或相互干扰。

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On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

一方面,我们公开宣布各国人民一律平等;另一方面,在我们的移民法中,我们在实践中接受了这些我们憎恶和口头谴责的理论。

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

我们今天的奋斗目标不是让一位女爱因斯坦被任命为助理教授。女性的晋升速度应该和男性一样快。