Why, it would be cited as evidence that women AS A WHOLE were unfit for executive duty So my hypothesis here is that JP is pissed about intersectionality because it holds an uncomfortable mirror to his face: a reckoning with a life and career accelerated by a privileged identity
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There’s a wonderful paper called “White Fragility” that neatly explains the spastic flailings we see from folks like JP during these kinds of discussions. You must read it. http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/download/249/116 …pic.twitter.com/KpJrlQxYVH
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While DiAngelo is concerned with race, I think you can extrapolate a corollary system of fragility around discussions of gender for men. White, male fragility around identity is real, and well demonstrated by the likes of JP. All this to say: it happens all the time
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What is vexing about folks like JP is that no amount of good faith discussion will make a difference. The cognitive dissonance of their fragility is like a forcefield that allows no information to pass. I have no idea how you solve this problem.
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Your concluding question motived my phd. Coming up on the end, I have lots of qualitatively pleasing / compelling prescriptions. But, only as abstractions in closed systems. In the wild, complexity reduces their impacts to something grossly swamped out by reality.
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It was really unsettling to me for a while. It rejects the mindset of optimization as a general solution that I had taken to (for lots of reasons I'm sure you could diagnosis easily). And, it leaves perpetual activism and vigilance in its place.
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I mean, what about works of culture? I do find that, in my work doing tech D&I, leveraging culture to make a point is a reliable approach. Star Trek as a parable for inclusion, for example
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Sorry, I may have been using your thread as rubber duck debugging almost. But yes, culture is the fabric I was trying to study / manipulate. I did so hoping to find technical solutions to mutating culture to produce better outcomes. (Which, yea, doesn't really work.)
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dunno, there’s one angle to this I think that could work: collapsing cost of distribution to let more kinds of people create culture I’m thinking stuff like twitter/vine. Maybe mutation is the wrong approach but handing out little thruster packs to change trajectory has promise
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Oh, absolutely. For the validating reinforcement of "you're not alone, other people think this / experience this," it's incredible! Plus, observing those changed me! Like, fuck, I worked at Cato in my early twenties!
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...but, I also think it lets team JP folks the same benefits until social networks decide to act like communities. And, while their culture is in decline, they're still damn powerful.
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