Tone policing

Yep, it really is.

So when a, a woman raises the problem of violent men, uh, or workplace discrimination or the erosion of women's sex-based protections, I mean, be kind doesn't engage with any of that at all, does it? Um, um, instead it comments on a woman's delivery, um, and that's tone policing.

Correct.

It's where attention shifts to how something is said, so the substance of the claim goes completely unexamined.

And Liv, feminists have been naming this mechanism for decades, haven't they? This tone policing isn't new.

Trace that lineage for us, please.

No, it isn't.

Sorry, but that's exactly what we're talking about, right? I feel like if...

I don't think men are like... constantly tone policing themselves like this but sorry please go ahead and say

what you were gonna say no it's just more to that point that like like i said we um are taught to empathize um uniquely as women and as young girls i mean there's plenty of studies to support that

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