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The Origins of Wokeness
Each woman in this book is a workaholic and a perfectionist, in part because anything less than that amount of labor and precise attention to detail could be her downfall. Unruliness can be liberating, but within our current cultural climate, it is also endlessly exhausting.
Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Women’s insistence on social harmony at all costs is problematic.
Yesterday, a woman pushed me too far at a social event with her pedantic interruptions. As soon as I pushed back saying she wasn’t letting me finish, she started giving that very white lady patronizing giggle and said something like “go ahead and finish sweetheart”. I then said I didn
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