Listening to the #WeCanDoHardThings (yes I listen lol) with @pronounced_ing. Noticing the impact of the host @GlennonDoyle using terms like “white fragility” & “patriarchy,” whereas Ng describes the same issues w/ more nuance & humanity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-…
I’m not allergic to discussing these issues, but I find some people’s reliance on these terms reductive, bigoted, and a bit lazy, as if reaching for the proximate woke scapegoat (patriarchy = men bad; white fragility = white people bad). The terms feel dated and inadequate.
If we wanted to play the same game, we could point to Doyle as representative of the way liberal white women evangelize and fetishize the woke lexicon to the chagrin of everyone. A bit like Elena in Little Fires Everywhere, no? We would need a name for this :)
Point is, normalizing a term like “woke white women fragility” may have relevance in our culture, but it isn’t helpful. It swaps one of bigotry for another while putting the audience it describes on the defensive (and then gaslights them when they call you on it)
Anyways, @pronounced_ing’s latest book is out and I’m excited to check it out.
Our Missing Hearts: A Novel a.co/d/6bb0feo
Our Missing Hearts: A Novel a.co/d/6bb0feo
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