For the last couple of months, I’ve been thinking about our national focus on needing to feel safe. This is a project that requires other people to behave in certain ways, like not challenging or questioning our beliefs, or saying anything “triggering.” This seems to me such a profoundly unhealthy message to send to children. We are terrified of our children’s suffering, and teach them to be terrified of it, too. I want us to focus less on making them feel safe and more on making them feel fortified. It’s also what I want for myself. It’s not safe to be a heretic, therefore what I need is strength.
I completely don't get the increase in stereotypes. You can now see with a few clicks the huge diversity among those who are male or female, across the world or over history. And yet short hair is male? Tell Audrey Hepburn. Pants are male? Flowers are female? Cooking is female? (Tell the first female cordon Bleu chefs, i bet you'll get a laugh). What is going on with people embracing these stereotypes?
Utterly sick and given the medicalization angle literally toxic.
On Creating Fragile Children
Thank you for the great article over there!
I completely don't get the increase in stereotypes. You can now see with a few clicks the huge diversity among those who are male or female, across the world or over history. And yet short hair is male? Tell Audrey Hepburn. Pants are male? Flowers are female? Cooking is female? (Tell the first female cordon Bleu chefs, i bet you'll get a laugh). What is going on with people embracing these stereotypes?
Utterly sick and given the medicalization angle literally toxic.
Thank you for writing about this!