When cringeness enters the social and political sphere, coupled with a constantly lowering threshold of what is considered cringe, it becomes a tool for social self-segregation and political gatekeeping.
Author: Ira Patole
Authors are willing to put in the time and effort to research what they consider relevant to the story and to their body of work, but having diverse and representative characters is not something they genuinely care about. It’s something they do to give their work a progressive packaging and make it sell.
The pursuit of perfection is harmful to us at an individual and societal level.
Self-diagnosis isn’t ironclad, and sometimes people get it wrong. Crucially, however, so do psychiatrists.
On the social interplay of the different dialects of a language.
