Hadley leaving. We know why. Suzanne left. We know why. If John and Marina leave, that’ll be it for me. God knows that this country needs a corrective to the right’s capture of MSM in this country. But The Guardian is failing on so many fronts, not just this one. Viner is such a disappointment after years of brilliant guardian editors. What’s worse is teaching my DC and DN to read it too.
To be honest, I find all this navel gazing and reflection about the “self” really tiresome. i think that some people are incredibly fascinated by their sense of self and enjoy preening it, cultivating their personal identity like a hobby (see the person in the article who finally decides they are a “boy”.) it’s a little bit like people who find religion and suddenly it’s the most all consuming, interesting thing in their lives. But I find it quite narcissistic and consumerist , and I resent the pronoun shit because it means that I’m dragged in as a participant in their self-building.
This^^ Teens do navel gaze in trying to work out who they are, but pronouns and gender politics is making that so much harder for them. No big surprise that it’s all young girls IME who opt for ’they’ or ‘him’ in this hypersexualised extremely misogynistic world. And I can’t blame my DC for the confusion when putative feminist colleagues have also swallowed pronouns hook, line and sinker including name badges and email signatures.
But almost it’s the narcissistic turn to the self and subsequent entitlement that is the most troubling. That way brings only unhappiness.