I was so surprised! When I first read I thought “this relatively innocuous post will probably not get very many comments”. And yet a wave of over 100 comments arrived and there are almost 70 votes on the first comment, with most comments disagreeing (and sometimes being – IMO – a little condescending toward John)!
I think the level of pushback partially stemmed from miscommunication due to John’s using a caricature as his first example, but still, I am now more strongly entertaining the hypothesis that the broader culture has much stronger cultural antibodies against being judged than I had previously thought.
Kudos for bravely posting, despite knowing how it makes you look/how people will misunderstand.
I was so surprised! When I first read I thought “this relatively innocuous post will probably not get very many comments”. And yet a wave of over 100 comments arrived and there are almost 70 votes on the first comment, with most comments disagreeing (and sometimes being – IMO – a little condescending toward John)!
I think the level of pushback partially stemmed from miscommunication due to John’s using a caricature as his first example, but still, I am now more strongly entertaining the hypothesis that the broader culture has much stronger cultural antibodies against being judged than I had previously thought.