Learning to gracefully handle the uncomfortable feelings that arise from criticism is a valuable skill. If you constantly reject the invitation to improve, you won’t.
When she says: “the discomfort you may be experiencing is your white supremacist and patriarchal conditioning” she is absolutely correct. It is one’s personal responsibility to confront that on their own. There is a lot more that was said in the essay but it is apparent from this thread that a lot of people aught to deal with that.
Learning to gracefully handle the uncomfortable feelings that arise from criticism is a valuable skill. If you constantly reject the invitation to improve, you won’t.
When she says: “the discomfort you may be experiencing is your white supremacist and patriarchal conditioning” she is absolutely correct. It is one’s personal responsibility to confront that on their own. There is a lot more that was said in the essay but it is apparent from this thread that a lot of people aught to deal with that.