Embrace discomfort (or we’ll force it on you)
This is how one inspires women in leadership?? Really?
It says “the LGBT community” but the ugly cluttered poster is all about the T. And what does inspiring women in leadership have to do with gender unicorns and being told to “embrace discomfort”? Like, what, women don’t get enough opportunities to embrace discomfort just in trying to navigate the world, now they have to put up with people ostensibly concerned with women ordering them to embrace discomfort and get all worked up about pronouns?
Piss off, is all I feel like saying to that poster.
Here’s a bigger version for easier reading:
Guess this is the organization that is training up the Aunt Lydia Squads.
Why doesn’t anyone tell the TiM to embrace discomfort? To understand their own privilege? To STFU?
I get that the art style is intended to look like it was drawn and coloured in by a child, but the layout is atrocious. I’m amazed that this was designed by an adult describing herself as “animator, graphic recorder, illustrator, educator”.
Ik like the response:
Telling young people to ’embrace discomfort’ is the opposite of teaching them to about what consent looks and feels like.
Axxyaan, Embrace discomfort is effectively what women have been expected to do for a long time. Man in the office puts his arm around your shoulders or on your back? Get over it (embrace discomfort). Man in the office stands right up against you at the copy machine? Get over it (embrace discomfort) Man in the office tells other people in your hearing how he’d like to jump your bones? Get over it (embrace discomfort) Man in the office puts his hand on your breast/up your skirt/in your pants? Get over it (embrace discomfort) Man on the bus ogles and leers and catcalls? Get over it (embrace discomfort) Man on the bus squeezes your ass? Get over it (embrace discomfort)
In short, Embrace discomfort has worked to preserve rape culture, and now the trans community works to defend rape culture, by couching it as “woke” and “progressive”, and by claiming that men who think they are women have the right to force themselves into women’s spaces and even into women’s beds.
Sounds more like it’s “Embrace discomfort because we’re going to force it on you regardless.”
Even with responses being deleted, the post is being heavily ratioed. No indication that IWiL is actually taking any of the concerns or criticisms on board. Given the degree of regulatory capture in these quasi-official bodies, any such response seems highly unlikely.
I thought “embrace discomfort” was what, for example, Angela Merkel felt when Dubya put his hands on her back.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I think it important.to note that the “embrace discomfort” thing is part of the “allyship” bullet list.
– We are to “listen & learn”. IOW, we are ignorant and trans rights activists are epistemically superior.
– We are to “embrace discomfort”. IOW, our minds will rebel against what the TRAs tell us, and we should ignore those warnings. Treat our reluctance to accept it as the result of an evil externality, just like a parent’s reluctance to commit an honor killing results from secular or demonic influence. And what is the form of influence in this case?
– We are to “understand our own privilege”. IOW, identify ourselves as sinful and corrupt, in need of purification and absolution.
– We must “educate ourselves”. We must read the TRA scripture and listen to the transprophets.
– We must “be accountable” and beg forgiveness for our sins, our transgressions against the new received revelation.
– We must “actively advocate”. We must atone for our sins by good works and evangelizing for the cause.