A most thought-provoking (and terrifying, and depressing) piece, Nina. Oppression via buzz-words is the most insidious of all. Thanks, as ever, for being one of the women courageous enough to speak out.
I am dismayed that you have to fight these battles, and grateful that you are doing so when so many of us are limited to contributing to crowd funders and quietly shunning our friends who are infected with this stuff.
Have you any idea what's going on?
Obviously a cancel culture removes the brakes - so many careers rely on having a mixed professional/social network, that genderwang rarely gets challenged. However, the people pushing this stuff often seem so sincere and it has the vibe I remember from middlebrow religious folk growing up: "discomfort is good for you", "let's you and him do virtue" etc.
A most thought-provoking (and terrifying, and depressing) piece, Nina. Oppression via buzz-words is the most insidious of all. Thanks, as ever, for being one of the women courageous enough to speak out.
I am dismayed that you have to fight these battles, and grateful that you are doing so when so many of us are limited to contributing to crowd funders and quietly shunning our friends who are infected with this stuff.
Have you any idea what's going on?
Obviously a cancel culture removes the brakes - so many careers rely on having a mixed professional/social network, that genderwang rarely gets challenged. However, the people pushing this stuff often seem so sincere and it has the vibe I remember from middlebrow religious folk growing up: "discomfort is good for you", "let's you and him do virtue" etc.