I’ve got a new piece over at Wesley Yang’s Year Zero that explores how progressive nonprofits went over the waterfall on gender ideology: Thinking every issue all the way through to the end is hard. We all use shortcuts, even when we know we shouldn't. Gender identity hacked those shortcuts by capturing trusted institutions, monstering reasonable critics, and exploiting vulnerabilities in the ways nonprofits like mine operated.
Someone on Year Zero commented we were mostly seeing this in organizations that employ mainly women. It's ironic but not funny that patriarchal behavioral requirements for women to center males over ourselves are being promoted under the guise of progressivism -- that you can "fight patriarchy" by decentering women's sex-based needs, experiences, and concerns. C'mon ladies! It's super progressive for you to put yourselves second.....again.
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Someone on Year Zero commented we were mostly seeing this in organizations that employ mainly women. It's ironic but not funny that patriarchal behavioral requirements for women to center males over ourselves are being promoted under the guise of progressivism -- that you can "fight patriarchy" by decentering women's sex-based needs, experiences, and concerns. C'mon ladies! It's super progressive for you to put yourselves second.....again.
Love this. I'm going to print a few copies and casually leave them in the teachers' lounges at the school where I work.
"Eliza", I appreciate your thoughts and your writing. However, I am simply not in a position to subscribe and I resent getting sent half an article with the admonition to pay to finish reading. If that is going to be your tactic going forward, please unsubscribe me.
I understand if you want to unsubscribe -- you can do this from the bottom of the email. Almost all content will remain free, so if you've found my thoughts and writing valuable, I'd hope you would stay and ignore the occasional emails that feature paid content.
I don’t think you need to pay to read the article at Wesley Yang’s site. It seems to be free to non-paying subscribers. Highly worth reading.
I think x is referring to yesterday's subscriber-only post (which is just a digest of best articles of the week). I'm trying to find a way that I can afford to keep spending a substantial portion of time researching and writing on this that keeps almost everything I write free to everyone. I understand if that's frustrating but that's also how Substack works. There are plenty of writers I follow on Substack who make much more content subscriber-only. I wish I could read it but I can't afford it and they deserve to earn something for their efforts, so it's just not a big deal to me.