Reading through those 7 steps though. All seems ok until you get to 'stop calling the manager'. Not only is this absolutely tone deaf now that Karen is 'a thing' and I don't know when this was written but it seems to tie into Phipps other work about 'white feminism' and 'tears', but Phipps for all the expertise she is claiming does not propose a solution.
So, girls and women - stop complaining it is making things hard for other minorities. It it YOUR fault for making it hard for other minorities so SHUT UP. That is the way I read it. I understand her point but she is pointing blame at women instead of where it belongs, the institutions who 'virtue signal' but don't ever fix the systemic problems
White and middle-class feminists have called for more police, more convictions and longer sentences – and when something goes wrong in our workplaces, we ask the manager to sort it out. And when we turn to authority, we legitimate and bolster that authority. In our efforts to address personal abuses of power, we turn to the institutional power that facilitates them. In thinking we can be safe in our institutions by punishing the ‘bad’ men, we conceal the fact that the institution itself is unsafe.
I am not an academic, but nothing in this paragraph shows any empathy for others who have been attacked and is stating clearly that anyone calling for punishment is deluded that punishment will make it better for anyone else. Just the opposite.
There is also a difference between punishment and accountability. Punishment is a passive and impersonal process – the person who has been harmed hands over their power and is kept in the dark (although nevertheless it requires a huge amount of courage and work). Accountability, in contrast, is both personal and active. For Mia Mingus, accountability requires four steps from someone who has caused harm: self-reflection, apology, repair, and changed behaviour. It centres the person who has been harmed, their understanding of why the behaviour was harmful and their definition of what constitutes repair. It makes space for that repair, acknowledging that none of us is above causing harm and we may all need that space someday. It is the job of the perpetrator and not the survivor, and requires significant community input and support.
is just make believe wishful thinking.... As other's had stated. Putting victim and perpetrator in a tent and after extensive 'counselling' believing that the perp will never do it again. I guess I am just too cynical and worn down from life to think that this is true. I WISH I could be that naive again.
Sadly, it seems this person consults on these issues and influences policy around these issues. That is where the issues lie and I see it repeated on many of these threads. The belief that laws and policies should reflect the idyll or the future utopia and not the gut wrenching reality.
That and the victim shaming for wanting justice, the playing the 'white feminist' card, makes it despicable.