Anuradha Pandey

Why do we want to help those who are already successful more than those who really need it?

If you have little career capital or are struggling, chances are your friends/network aren’t that interested in helping you or even being associated with you (because of your relative status). And if you have observable career capital, people want to be in

Manifesto

I help ambitious but overlooked people climb class barriers, help businesses escape bureaucratic bloat, and give individuals the tools to cast off systems of psychological control so they can build deep, meaningful lives.

Makeup is for other women

One of the more ridiculous lines in the feminist catechism is that women have the unfair burden of beauty expectations. No one is forcing me to do any of it. Social expectations to “look pretty” come from women (and Instagram culture). Anecdotally, I’ve seen plenty of evidence that men don’t care for the aesthetic

Stoicism isn’t only for men.

While digging myself out of depression and engaging with Cal Newport’s work, I finally was ready to invite Stoic modes of living into my life. These concepts underpin much of cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapy. The idea that we can control our reactions even if we can’t control what happens stands in opposition

The first morning in SF, I got accosted by a white dude for speaking to my Indian female friend about women needing single sex restrooms. So-called liberals stifle dissenting opinions of even strangers in public places with such religious zeal it’s no wonder most people feel oppressed under this ideological regime and self-censor. In berating me,

Democrats & arrogance

I, like others, am fed up with Democrats not because of their stated positions but because most Democrats around me are unrepentantly arrogant, classist, and self-deluded. I am guilty of the same in years past, so perhaps I see it everywhere now. The arrogance manifests in how they casually dismiss anyone who disagrees as

The ubiquitous accusation of racism and sexism is covering up for the very obvious favoritism educated white people show for others based on their demographic categories. For the most politically inclined Democrats (also the whitest and richest) to question whether the person of color is actually the most qualified is tantamount to sin. I have

The PMC feminist rhetorical fortress

Why do women treat each other badly? > patriarchy

Why can’t women see their own bad behavior toward each other? —> internalized misogyny

Why can’t they see past internalized misogyny? —> patriarchy

But men don’t control women —> systemic patriarchy, no female president

But a female president shouldn’t be required to

If feminism is anything, every argument against it is valid.

A concept cannot be falsified if its definition constantly shifts. Feminism suffers from semantic slippage veering into incoherence. When I argue that it’s disempowering, someone inevitably says my definition of feminism isn’t true and constructs a straw man assuming I’m against women’s