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Is Affirmation Culture Sabotaging Our Friendships and Ourselves?

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  “The rule goes something like this: A woman who is the aggrieved party in a relationship with a man is entitled to affirmation from other women. Women in this situation are considered categorically blameless, because women are categorically blamed for so much. There’s a cosmic score being settled: Women have been fucked over by men for so long that we should get full immunity in our domestic disputes.” Huh, this is a succinct way of summarising a cultural thread that weaves through a lot of society’s problematic elements.