What’s heartbreaking about the trend for destructive speech patterns is that yours is the most transformational generation – you’re disowning your power.

This article is from theguardian.com by Naomi Wolf

Patriarchy is inventive. The minute a generation of women has figured out how to not be enslaved by Ideology A, some new cultural pressure arises in the form of Internalisation B, making sure they don’t get too far too fast. The latest example: the most empowered generation of women ever – today’s twentysomethings in North America and Britain – is being hobbled in some important ways by something as basic as a new fashion in how they use their voices.

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