Tough girl
Good morning, everyone! It is my great honor to stand here to give you a speech. At the very beginning, I want to ask the girls a question: Have you ever called yourself an “nvhanzi”. You don’t need to give me the answer. Based on my observation, only quite a few girls in my class never have this experience.
There is a joke on the Internet that people are divided into three types: Boys, girls and “nvhanzi”. It is ironical, isn’t it? But actually, nowdays, “nvhanzi” has become a commendatory term. We use it frequently, but do you know how to translate it into English? What kind of criteria to judge an “nvhanzi” and how should we evaluate the popularity of this term? It seems that most of you have no ideas about these questions, so I am here to give you an explicit explanation about these questions.
Since we are majoring in English, it would be better for us to know the translation of Chinese “nvhanzi”. There are many versions. Macho girl? Tomboy? Masculine girl? Manly girl? Some Chinese even put a hyphen between “wo” and “man” to distinguish the difference between “nvhanzi” and woman. But the one which has been widely recognized by the public is “tough girl”
What kind of girl can be defined as a tough girl? This one? This one? Or this one? Different people have different views. In my opinion, tough girl should be those who are very independent. When they have problems, they would rather solve them by themselves than turn to others for help. They dislike shopping and making up. What’s more, they are also quite intelligent but they do never know how to coquetry. But my opinion could not represent your idea, so I search the Internet and in Baidu Baike I found that there are 20 rules to test whether you are a tough girl or not. Look through it quickly and find how many of them have you ever done. If your answer is less than 10, you are a girly girl. The girl whose answer is between 10 and 15 can be called a tough-girl-to-be, and a standard tough girl should be those whose answer is more than 15.
I have no idea how many of you have paid attention to the buzzwords of 2013. The fact is that tough girl is one of them. Why more and more girls like to call themselves tough girls? From a psychological point of view, just as the doctor Yuan Yonggui from Southeast University said, “For girls, especially those beautiful girls, being masculine can increase the probability of being accepted and welcome by others. It is also a way of self-comforting and self-mockery, an indicator of good mental health.
Before I end my speech, I want to share with all of you particularly those tough
girls in my class a famous sentences said by Luo Yonghao, “A tough life needs no explanation!”
关爱女孩，从我做起
尊敬的各位领导，各位评委老师，现场的观众朋友们： 大家好！
我叫张静，来自北城管委会，今天我演讲的题目是《关爱女孩，从我做起》。
我是一个女孩，我的出生并没有给刚刚结束分娩的妈妈和焦急等待的爸爸，以及白发苍苍的奶奶带来一丝一毫的欣慰，仅仅因为我是一个女孩。在他们看来，辛辛苦苦怀胎十月，左等右盼喜出望外的应该是一个男孩的降临。然而，我还是很幸运的，爸爸给我取名为“张静”，一个普普通通甚至经常会和同班同学同名同姓的一个名字，却饱含着爸爸的良苦用心。记得是上大学走的前一天晚上，爸爸把我叫到身边，他没有像很多父母一样叮嘱我如何照顾好自己，如何完成好学业，而是问我：你知道为什么给你取名为“张静”吗？我摇了摇头，爸爸说：张，是一个“弓“和一个“长”，是弓就要拉长，尽显它的张力才能射向最远的目标，静是一个“青”和一个“争”，哪怕你是一株青草也要与鲜花争芳斗艳，去展示生命的美丽。
那一刻，我真正懂得了我的爸爸，一个没有读过多少书， 一个脾气有些暴躁的男人，在过去的二十多年里倾注了多少梦想和希望在我这个并不受欢迎的女孩身上。也就是从那一刻起，我告诉自己，我一定要出人头地，我一定不能让爸爸
的希望破碎，我一定要让一直不喜欢我的奶奶知道：女孩也是好样儿的！三年的大学生活，三年的村官经历，我用自己的实际行动证明了这一点。今天，在山西省计划生育协会成立25周年的特殊日子里，能够站在这里，与大家沟通我的想法，抒发我的情感，我很自豪，也很骄傲。是爸爸的疼爱让我健康而幸福的成长着，是社会的认可让我努力而坚持的奋斗着，是所有人的关心和帮助让我度过了人生的每一个挫折和困苦。然而，并不是每个女孩都会跟我一样幸运。
参加北城计生协会的第一年，我遇到了这样一个孩子，她叫小英，是个10岁的女孩，由于家庭拮据，她只上了一年学衣辍学回家了。每天她都会在家里等弟弟放学，给弟弟削铅笔、整理书包、洗洗袜子、刷刷鞋，在一个小本子上我们发现了这样一段话：我上不起学了，妈妈让我在家，让弟弟上学，我多想读一读黑板上的粉笔字，我多想摸摸老师的电子琴，我多想和同学们在操场上跳一跳、跑一跑，我是多么想上学啊，可是我家没钱。看到这段话的时候，我们所有人的眼睛都湿润了，我们都好想跑过去抱抱她，可是我们都忍住了，我们知道一个拥抱并不能让她回到学校，我们要做的工作还有很多。
与学校联系、向社会呼吁，从驻地单位获得资助，发通知、发贴子，多方面多条路为英子筹集资金，最后，我们终于帮助英子回到了学校，站在办公楼里可以看到英子每天和
弟弟一起上学，一起放学，我们每个人都从心底里感到幸福。在计生协会工作的这三年里，我看到了被遗弃女婴无辜的眼神，我看到了被逼辍学后女孩无奈的眼光，我看到了求职场
上女孩遭受歧视的情景，我看到遭遇暴力后女孩心碎的哭泣。 或许，大家以为我是女孩，所以才会如此关爱女孩，或许大家以为女孩正在遭受不公，我们才需要关爱女孩，可是，仅仅是这样吗？我这里有一张图片，讲的是二十四孝中唐夫人乳姑奉亲的故事。唐夫人是唐朝节度使崔南山的祖母，在她年轻的时候，看到自己的婆婆年迈已高，牙齿脱落，不能吃五谷杂粮，心疼婆婆，便用自己的乳汁来喂养婆婆，充分体现了儿媳妇对婆婆的一片孝心，旁边有个小孩，光着屁股，打着肚兜，很显然是吃奶的年龄，却被仆人用拨浪鼓给赶走了，小孩也很懂事的与母亲作别，一幅妻贤子孝的景面。上而雕刻了玉兰花代表玉堂，莲花代表清廉，牡丹代表富贵，下面还有猫雕家雀，家雀的翅膀张开就像蝴蝶一样，猫蝶取谐音为“耄耋”，我们说六十花甲，七十古稀，八十耄，九十耋，就是说只有在这们一个妻贤子孝的家庭中，才会出现玉堂清廉富贵高寿的场景，同时说明一个女人在一个家庭中的重要作用。
今天的女孩，就是明天的女人，教育了一个女孩，就是教育了一个家庭，教育了一个民族，教育了一个国家，所以说，今天我们关爱女孩，就是关爱千千万万个家庭，就是关
爱我们社会这个大大的家庭。有那么一天，我也会成为一个女人，我也会成为一个母亲，成为一个家庭的承担者和责任者，我希望大家都来关爱女孩，关心下一代的成长，我希望所有女孩的梦想都能实现，我希望，当我们再次聚在一起的时候，关爱女孩已经不再是我们计生协会的主题。
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