Posted by Maureen Sharib
LOOK AGAIN
Hillary Clinton, Through a Lens Wrongly
This isn't about Hillary. Well, okay, it is.
But it isn't only about her. It's also about every woman who has ever been underestimated, failed to get credit for work she did or been denied opportunities to do work at which she would have excelled.
We think we're judging people as individuals, but gender is like a contact lens permanently affixed to the eye. As the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein put it, "One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing's nature over and over again, and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it." Gender is a frame through which we look at people -- and what we see reflects that frame. Whole fascinating article here.
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