Love this - and also equally find it super frustrating that so many thousands of column inches have been given to talking about how sh*t this is - and rightly so - whilst overlooking some of the amazing progress that has been made - for example by Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen on that very flight.
Agree. I need to update this post to take account of Amanda too as I didn’t know much about her before this flight. Which is a key point right? It IS about raising the profile of women in STEM, at least that’s what it should have been.
The fact that this tone-deaf pseudo-emancipative billionaire PR stunt gets called out – and for good reasons – is already a sign of that change IMHO. Not too long ago this would not have evoked any kind of vocal cognitive dissonance with the vast majority of the population out there. This genie is out of the bottle and it's not going back. Even if it takes excruciating long to overcome societal inertia.
BTW, you might enjoy Damon Centola's excellent work on how big changes happen quite a lot (if you're not familiar with it already).
Love this - and also equally find it super frustrating that so many thousands of column inches have been given to talking about how sh*t this is - and rightly so - whilst overlooking some of the amazing progress that has been made - for example by Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen on that very flight.
Agree. I need to update this post to take account of Amanda too as I didn’t know much about her before this flight. Which is a key point right? It IS about raising the profile of women in STEM, at least that’s what it should have been.
Yea exactly! So much to say about Katy Perry which means that others get overlooked - which is such a shame.
One positive is it led me to follow both Bowe and Nguyen on LinkedIn - so I can keep up to date with what they’re up to 🙌🏼
> But then again, maybe the system is changing.
The fact that this tone-deaf pseudo-emancipative billionaire PR stunt gets called out – and for good reasons – is already a sign of that change IMHO. Not too long ago this would not have evoked any kind of vocal cognitive dissonance with the vast majority of the population out there. This genie is out of the bottle and it's not going back. Even if it takes excruciating long to overcome societal inertia.
BTW, you might enjoy Damon Centola's excellent work on how big changes happen quite a lot (if you're not familiar with it already).
This gives me hope. I haven't come across Centola's work before, what do you recommend as a good entry point?