“The deferent and visibly fragile academic...makes a lousy role model for young women today, who are too often fed the message that weakness is their greatest strength.” Damn this is good.https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/10/why-christine-blasey-fords-testimony-didnt-make-me-cry/ …
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I think this piece was deeply unkind, which takes away - a lot - from her otherwise good point about allowing resilience. I actively push back against the *expectation* that sexual assault weakens, but I think it's equally unfair to suggest "I managed fine, so should she."
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Also worth pointing out a lot of feminist discourse on this is NOT reveling in CFBs moments of fragility - they're pointing to how this response has become a societal expectation & shouldn't be (imagine if she'd reacted like BK did instead & how delegitimizing that would be).
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No, Lionel is just another Cathy Young. Too much resilience leads to ignorance, leads to indignity at being asked to care.pic.twitter.com/cLp55Ueiy9
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Harvey Weinstein isn't all men. Nor is he representative of all or even a substantial plurality of all men. So what's wrong with acknowledging that reality? I like most of what
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FWIW, I found Shriver's article unnecessarily mean-spirited (I even tweeted about that last night). Resilience should be encouraged of course, but I don't think people should be mocked for not coping well enough with traumatic events.
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Well. You really are special. But incredibly blinkered.
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