Author: Daniel snow

What is toxic femininity? Gossiping, inability to deal with conflict directly and suppressing conflict and aversion to directness which naturally in a workplace is a big problem because you need to be able to give direct feedback to people, including negative feedback. I think some of what you’re describing is not exclusively feminine and it’s strange to characterize it so strongly in that direction. It’s a product of human beings being bad at group dynamics in a variety of ways that men can fail at, women can fail at. And it happens in male- dominated places, too, where they’re explicitly…

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The particular problem that I’m worried about is wokeness, because the reason why I think the great feminization thesis is important to talk about is because I see a lot of people walking around right now thinking that wokeness is over. They say the vibe shift is here. We don’t need to worry about it anymore. But I’m saying that if it’s the result of structural forces and demographic feminization, then we cannot be so complacent because wokeness is here to stay if that’s the case. The one thing I really couldn’t get purchase on from your essay is I…

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Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica discuss whether affordability is the Democrats’ winning message, Trump’s politics of cruelty and how liberalism can win right now. Source link

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