Excellent article, thanks for the link! Let’s keep in mind that she also wrote about how inflammatory and combative language is counterproductive, and the need to communicate with people in ways they have some chance of understanding.
What she said wasn’t that simple—she also talks about trying to get her ideas across while being completely inoffensive, and having them not noticed at all. When we’re talking about a call to change deeply held premises, getting some chance of being understood is quite a hard problem.
Excellent article, thanks for the link! Let’s keep in mind that she also wrote about how inflammatory and combative language is counterproductive, and the need to communicate with people in ways they have some chance of understanding.
What she said wasn’t that simple—she also talks about trying to get her ideas across while being completely inoffensive, and having them not noticed at all. When we’re talking about a call to change deeply held premises, getting some chance of being understood is quite a hard problem.