I will also add that I am hopeful this blog will attract more women readers and commenters. I will continue to read Slow Boring and other blogs, but I can't help but notice the significantly larger number of male commenters and will be pleased if more women join the ranks of readers and commenters for this blog.
I am so glad that you started this substack. I’ve enjoyed your comments on SlowBoring and am eager to bring the conversation here. LIke yourself, I have been experiencing a transformation in views. This has not been a pleasant experience for me. I was never “woke” but I held, or went along with, many beliefs because those were the beliefs of “my side” which was the “good” side. Then my friends took a sharp turn that I couldn’t follow, so I found myself alone and upset on the empty road, wondering which way is the nearest town. Thankfully I have been able to learn from others who have similar thoughts and are facing the same challenges. And it has been an opportunity to rediscover and own some fundamental values and to think a little more deeply about what I really think than I did before. I still consider myself a liberal, but a more thoughtful and, I hope, a more tolerant and open-minded one. I'm looking forward to discussing and learning with everyone!
I am curious as to where this is headed. I am interested in many of the things you are interested in, but primarily from a black perspective. As a college professor where I hear and see these discussions occurring everyday, I find that racially mixed spaces can be as challenging as racially exclusive spaces when trying to engage this subject. I hope you find what works for you.
Hi Marie. I’ve been a fan of yours for a while on slow boring as I think you know 😊. I felt, reading your posts, that here was someone who approached the world and ethics as I do but who does it with so much more graciousness, understanding and insight. Super excited to see your posts. Excited also to engage w a community here willing to think outside the box, examine solutions honestly and with people maybe willing to change their minds. I think, really, that’s all you’re asking of yourself and others — keep an open mind.
I echo these comments. I too followed Marie on Slow Boring and concur that she shows a lot of "graciousness, understanding and insight." I am pleased there will be a blog that is focused on the issues as Marie outlined them. I recently joined Braver Angels- a group devoted to bridging the red-blue divide- and I realize how challenging the whole woke universe of topics is, no matter what your political persuasion.
I’m glad you’re doing this! And I’m following you over here from Slow Boring.
Interesting to hear more of your professional background. It’s kind of fact-based, as is mine (PhD molecular biologist). The way 2020 worked for me, my interest in facts kept feeling like it was coming into unwelcome conflict with my woke community in liberal urban Massachusetts. And the general, well, meanness of that community really started to show. (I had to take deep breaths and continuously remind myself these attitudes were usually coming from a place with good motivations....)
That’s a little rambling but I’m glad to be here and glad to hear more about your perspectives.
Marie, Marie, first-time long-time, yeah, uh, I've really liked your comments on Slow Boring (really, like literally, I was clicking that little heart icon on the lower left corner of the comment text), and then last night I was reading your (?) reply to someone else about substack having a profile. Like, really? So I clicked your icon - and hey, has your icon changed? was it always Kermit the Frog? it looks different, but maybe I wasn't looking close you know - but, so, yeah, I saw that you were writing a substack yourself and it's, like, free, so yeah, I just think, like, I'd like to read it, you know? OK, I'll hang up now.
I just joined after appreciating your comments on Slow Boring.
Reading the posts so far, I appreciate your energy for the project (I had a blog for a while, but ended up losing steam after a while), and it's interesting to see a longer explanation of your perspective.
Also, I just finished a graphic novel which you might enjoy (or might already have read), _Good Talk_ by Mira Jacobs. I thought of your blogging at a scene in which she impatiently says to her boyfriend, "are you doing the thing white people do where the pretend that people of color don't see color?"
It's a book about many complexities in experiencing perceptions of race, and trying to explain them to others.
I will also add that I am hopeful this blog will attract more women readers and commenters. I will continue to read Slow Boring and other blogs, but I can't help but notice the significantly larger number of male commenters and will be pleased if more women join the ranks of readers and commenters for this blog.
I am so glad that you started this substack. I’ve enjoyed your comments on SlowBoring and am eager to bring the conversation here. LIke yourself, I have been experiencing a transformation in views. This has not been a pleasant experience for me. I was never “woke” but I held, or went along with, many beliefs because those were the beliefs of “my side” which was the “good” side. Then my friends took a sharp turn that I couldn’t follow, so I found myself alone and upset on the empty road, wondering which way is the nearest town. Thankfully I have been able to learn from others who have similar thoughts and are facing the same challenges. And it has been an opportunity to rediscover and own some fundamental values and to think a little more deeply about what I really think than I did before. I still consider myself a liberal, but a more thoughtful and, I hope, a more tolerant and open-minded one. I'm looking forward to discussing and learning with everyone!
I am curious as to where this is headed. I am interested in many of the things you are interested in, but primarily from a black perspective. As a college professor where I hear and see these discussions occurring everyday, I find that racially mixed spaces can be as challenging as racially exclusive spaces when trying to engage this subject. I hope you find what works for you.
Hi Marie. I’ve been a fan of yours for a while on slow boring as I think you know 😊. I felt, reading your posts, that here was someone who approached the world and ethics as I do but who does it with so much more graciousness, understanding and insight. Super excited to see your posts. Excited also to engage w a community here willing to think outside the box, examine solutions honestly and with people maybe willing to change their minds. I think, really, that’s all you’re asking of yourself and others — keep an open mind.
I echo these comments. I too followed Marie on Slow Boring and concur that she shows a lot of "graciousness, understanding and insight." I am pleased there will be a blog that is focused on the issues as Marie outlined them. I recently joined Braver Angels- a group devoted to bridging the red-blue divide- and I realize how challenging the whole woke universe of topics is, no matter what your political persuasion.
I’m glad you’re doing this! And I’m following you over here from Slow Boring.
Interesting to hear more of your professional background. It’s kind of fact-based, as is mine (PhD molecular biologist). The way 2020 worked for me, my interest in facts kept feeling like it was coming into unwelcome conflict with my woke community in liberal urban Massachusetts. And the general, well, meanness of that community really started to show. (I had to take deep breaths and continuously remind myself these attitudes were usually coming from a place with good motivations....)
That’s a little rambling but I’m glad to be here and glad to hear more about your perspectives.
Great to see this! I've always felt motivated reasoning was humanity's biggest inbuilt flaw.
Marie, Marie, first-time long-time, yeah, uh, I've really liked your comments on Slow Boring (really, like literally, I was clicking that little heart icon on the lower left corner of the comment text), and then last night I was reading your (?) reply to someone else about substack having a profile. Like, really? So I clicked your icon - and hey, has your icon changed? was it always Kermit the Frog? it looks different, but maybe I wasn't looking close you know - but, so, yeah, I saw that you were writing a substack yourself and it's, like, free, so yeah, I just think, like, I'd like to read it, you know? OK, I'll hang up now.
It was always Kermit ;) Thanks for checking this out!
I just joined after appreciating your comments on Slow Boring.
Reading the posts so far, I appreciate your energy for the project (I had a blog for a while, but ended up losing steam after a while), and it's interesting to see a longer explanation of your perspective.
Also, I just finished a graphic novel which you might enjoy (or might already have read), _Good Talk_ by Mira Jacobs. I thought of your blogging at a scene in which she impatiently says to her boyfriend, "are you doing the thing white people do where the pretend that people of color don't see color?"
It's a book about many complexities in experiencing perceptions of race, and trying to explain them to others.