Solid beginning on how language can impact individual/group thinking and how it can be used to trap people when they would otherwise see the pitfalls.Solid beginning on how language can impact individual/group thinking and how it can be used to trap people when they would otherwise see the pitfalls. The breadth of contemporary examples was a great overview....more
Every time I read about the Satanic panic hysteria, I think, "Surely, people weren't that stupid, right?"
And then I look around me and realize, yeah,Every time I read about the Satanic panic hysteria, I think, "Surely, people weren't that stupid, right?"
And then I look around me and realize, yeah, okay. It definitely happened in exactly that way.
Audiobook note: I desperately need the narrator to look up how to pronounce the word "angst", because it's repeated way too often for me to hear her say it that way....more
There is one more trend I kept coming across while writing this book: the excuses. Chief amongst these is that women are just too complicated to measu
There is one more trend I kept coming across while writing this book: the excuses. Chief amongst these is that women are just too complicated to measure. Everyone was saying this, from transport planners, to medical researchers, to tech developers: they were all knocking their heads up against Freud’s riddle of femininity and coming away baffled and defeated.
A systemic inability apply theory of mind (or to simply fucking ask a woman, or many women, about their perspectives.)...more