What a timely piece. Maybe you’ve seen the notes/SS articles about the arrival, negative response to and then subsequent departure of a certain female celebrity on SS?
Some said it was jealousy/bullying, that women were pulling another woman down & anti-feminist women deserve a special place in hell for that. And your exploration of belonging here, has put words to the feeling I had that the whole conversation actually was about power - who gets to decide what/who this platform is for? Is there space to recognise the fear/disappointment/anger that arises when your hopes + expectations about a certain place are not/no longer met?
Whose safety gets prioritised/protected through being “allowed” to belong? Who is given/has taken the power to decide?
Loooong comment but I find these topics so interesting (belonging, identity & how our wiring and longing for these things shape how we show up in the world and how we feel)
Thanks for this helpful mix of personal insight and academic research Leila!
Yes, it definitely inspired the timing - I thought I’d write about groups and exclusivity (exclusion and the power to exclude), but had been procrastinating 🫣, then this swell of opinion about celebrities surfaced.
I’m *so* pleased you enjoyed it and found the identity and belonging perspective from social psychology interesting 🧠
What a timely piece. Maybe you’ve seen the notes/SS articles about the arrival, negative response to and then subsequent departure of a certain female celebrity on SS?
Some said it was jealousy/bullying, that women were pulling another woman down & anti-feminist women deserve a special place in hell for that. And your exploration of belonging here, has put words to the feeling I had that the whole conversation actually was about power - who gets to decide what/who this platform is for? Is there space to recognise the fear/disappointment/anger that arises when your hopes + expectations about a certain place are not/no longer met?
Whose safety gets prioritised/protected through being “allowed” to belong? Who is given/has taken the power to decide?
Loooong comment but I find these topics so interesting (belonging, identity & how our wiring and longing for these things shape how we show up in the world and how we feel)
Thanks for this helpful mix of personal insight and academic research Leila!
Yes, it definitely inspired the timing - I thought I’d write about groups and exclusivity (exclusion and the power to exclude), but had been procrastinating 🫣, then this swell of opinion about celebrities surfaced.
I’m *so* pleased you enjoyed it and found the identity and belonging perspective from social psychology interesting 🧠
Ah some things I knew about but never used - Gingerbeer and the Glass Bar. Feeling old now 😂
Same Jo, same… ! where have the decades gone?