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I was thinking of the same connection to Naomi Osaka as I opened this comment section. There's also a bit of a connection to the issue of low-end employers bein
by notacoward 5y ago
I was thinking of the same connection to Naomi Osaka as I opened this comment section. There's also a bit of a connection to the issue of low-end employers being unable to find people willing to endure exploitative wages and working conditions. This last year-plus has been amazing in terms of surfacing problems that were already there. I repeat:
The problems were already there.
That includes the problems with personal boundaries, with the general brokenness of requiring people to come into the office every day (very extrovert-centric and environmentally disastrous), with income/wealth disparities, with crappy health care, with "truth decay" and preferring Twitter/YouTube conspiracy theorists to actual experts, etc. People have had ample opportunity to look at how we've built our society and consider whether previous decisions had been the right ones, and an increasing number are saying NO.
This story fits right into that, particularly wrt boundaries and mental health issues. All of the comments trying to reestablish extrovert/neurotypical hegemony by flinging names and insults at anybody who doesn't "fit the mold" are just incredibly privileged and offensive. FFS let's allow people to be how they want to be, be open about their needs, cope how they can, and work the way they're most effective.