“Bee and Silverman did something that no one else has: They straight up acknowledged that they’re a part of the community that has traditionally fostered men like C.K. and Franken.”
“It was precisely because of where he worked that Stiller felt certain he was witnessing a widening social — and medical — movement. Even here, a stream of transgender patients was coming into his waiting room, asking for help.”
“Stay here, in this difficult place. Stay here actively. Breathe through the discomfort and pay attention to what it’s telling you. Listen to women. Believe women. There will be a lot to learn, and a lot more to unlearn.”
“The performative theory of gender that I proposed then accepted that we are all born into social norms and conventions that define our genders, but that we can also craft our genders within that scene of constraint.”
“Weinstein could ensure that these women would never work again if they humiliated him. That’s not just artistic or emotional exile—that’s also economic exile.”
Don’t sell yourself short by mislabeling your labor emotional labor. Call it was it is – it may not be emotional labor, but it’s still LABOR.
Achieving Change Through Values-Based Behavior aims to teach abusers to respond differently to their thoughts.
Children are our future and we should nurture their abilities to surpass us.
