Comment by rayiner
4 years ago
> As an inexperienced young woman from a patriarchal culture, I was running away from the stereotype of being thought of as someone “traditional”. I should, like he implied, and wanted to be “cool about everything that happened”.
“Just be cool” is such an abusive and manipulative behavior I’m flummoxed at how it’s lasted this long as socially acceptable.
Eveybody's talking about the "woke culture", "cancel culture" and all that and how it is bad for the society. The "cool culture" and associated social pressure is probably the single worst "culture" that happened in the last forty years, killed at least thousands and pushed even more to accept unacceptable things.