Lorelei Weldon
2 min readJun 23, 2019

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Here’s what you said verbatim: “On vulnerability (her real work).” In other words, you know what Brene’ Brown's real work is, but she doesn’t. Condescending and dickish much?

If someone was rude to you or harmed you in some other way and you pointed that out to them, that doesn’t mean that you are shaming them. Bad behavior deserves to be pointed out, particularly when it is more than a personal failing but is instead the result of a societal dynamic. All but the very worst racism and sexism is the result of subconscious bias and we objectively live in a highly racist and sexist society. Asking people to engage with that is what makes for a better, healthier society for all people.

By the way, you are not truly an individual and being obsessed with the idea that you are is a part of the problem. Until you’ve done the conscious work of individuation, you are merely a product of your society. Elle wrote a great article on that, but since you can’t read it, I’ll quote some of it to you.

If you want to be an actual individual and not just a largely unconscious automaton going through the motions of a life that has been prescribed for you by other people, the society that you live in, and your wounds, you must vigorously engage with the process of individuation.

My experience of you is that you are deeply wounded and roam around the site looking to pick fights as a way to exorcise your pain. You don’t engage in good-faith debate or exchange of ideas. It doesn’t work, of course, but you keep doing it, hoping that it will. You’d be a lot better off to go work with whatever the wounds are.

Unless you have something constructive to say, I’m tired of all of this.

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Lorelei Weldon
Lorelei Weldon

Written by Lorelei Weldon

Student of human nature and advocate for a safer, saner, more love-infused world. If I read it, there’s a good chance I’ll leave a comment.

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