印度高官呼籲外國女性在印不要穿裙子遭批

An Indian politician has caused outrage once again for saying that foreign tourists should avoid wearing skirts.

日前，印度一位政客因宣稱外國遊客應該避免穿裙子而又一次引起了衆怒。

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

上週末印度發生了一些騷亂，起原因是印度文化部部長馬赫什·夏爾馬在機場發放的旅遊手冊上給出了一些建議，要求遊客在印度不要穿着裙子或晚禮服，也不要晚上在小城鎮裏獨自外出。

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，他不是第一個這麼建議婦女保護自己、避免被強姦的人，肯定也不會是最後一個。

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.

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着牛仔褲、短裙、裙子和短褲。

Women have also been told not to go out after dark, date, be friends with boys, or even use mobile phones.

婦女們也被告誡不要在天黑以後出門，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姦殺害以來，印度和整個世界都在監督有影響力的人物和輿論家，看看他們在針對女性暴力到底是何態度。

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，許多人都爲這些荒唐的言論辯護，認爲這些言論都是善意的，其目的是爲了保護婦女。

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--他們認爲短裙和強姦案之間沒有相關性。

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

“德里婦女委員會”領頭人斯瓦特接受BBC採訪時表示：“讓這些政客們停止對婦女們應該穿什麼、不該穿什麼指手畫腳，這是非常重要的。”