The lesson from my most chaotic LinkedIn comment section this week


I posted about a Business Insider headline that said Taylor Swift was “celebrating the end of her independence” because she’s getting married. And whew. The women understood the assignment immediately. The men? Many of them rushed in to explain why it wasn’t sexist, why everyone was overreacting, why it was “just a headline,” and why we should all calm down. Which proved the entire point. Here’s the lesson: when a group of people tells you something feels sexist, dismissive, outdated, or...