点评:My girlfriend and I toured Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, on Friday, August 8th.
The house was beautiful and we enjoyed the wonderful interior designs, but unfortunately our tour was tainted by our rude, disrespectful, and unprofessional tour guide.
Shortly upon beginning the tour, our guide, Alberta Hill, made an extremely rude and uncalled-for comment, sIut-shaming and embarrassing my girlfriend in front of the entire tour group for her clothing. Her outfit was not that revealing- it was a hot day and she had on shorts and a tank top- but even if it were, it would not grant a tour guide the right to treat a guest in this manner. It’s sad that what was otherwise such a fun experience was impacted by an insensitive guide who made my girlfriend feel uncomfortable and self-conscious.
It’s disappointing that Historic New England would employ someone with such an old-fashioned mentality, someone who would go out of her way to police another woman’s body and enforce traditional gender norms. This is especially troubling to see at the Beauport Sleeper-McCann House, a space that was once a sanctuary for the queer Henry Davis Sleeper and a pinnacle of early individual expression. I would expect those employed by the Beauport house to reject moral conservatism and embrace personal freedoms and expression, but sadly Alberta did not.
翻译:8月8日,星期五,我和女朋友参观了位于博波特的斯利珀-麦肯故居。
房子很漂亮,我们很喜欢里面精美的室内设计,但不幸的是,我们的旅程被粗鲁、无礼且不专业的导游破坏了。
旅程开始后不久,我们的导游艾伯塔·希尔就发表了极其粗鲁且不合时宜的评论,当着全团的面羞辱我女朋友,让她难堪。她的穿着并不暴露——那天很热,她穿着短裤和背心——但即使她穿着暴露,导游也没有权利这样对待客人。本来如此有趣的体验却被一位不体贴的导游破坏了,她让我的女朋友感到不舒服和不自在,这真是令人难过。
新英格兰历史协会竟然雇佣如此守旧的人,真是令人失望,她竟然会不遗余力地去管控其他女性的身体,并强制推行传统的性别规范。在博波特斯利珀-麦肯故居(Beauport Sleeper-McCann House)看到这样的情况尤其令人不安,这里曾是酷儿亨利·戴维斯·斯利珀(Henry Davis Sleeper)的庇护所,也是早期个人表达的巅峰。我本以为博波特故居的雇员会拒绝道德保守主义,拥抱个人自由和表达,但遗憾的是,艾伯塔并没有这样做。