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Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In today's internet age, so many are encountering the complex effects of cancel culture affording its victims a wide spectrum of implications, from severe career-ending scenarios to minor social ostracism and even family tensions and divisions.
The digital revolution is not only exacerbating the dynamics between parents and their activist-minded children, but is also dramatically shifting generational dynamics as well. This is further complicated by societal reverence for youth and intellect, often overshadowing the value of life experience and the idea that “with age comes wisdom”.
The profound influence of the internet becomes evident as we witness the ever-evolving impact of digital tech, transforming the way people engage with each other and the world around them, reshaping not only societal norms but also personal relationships, and fundamentally altering how individuals interact and connect.
In this bonus episode for premium subscribers, Meghan Daum reflects with a nostalgia for the freedom and authenticity of past decades. The discussion explores the profound changes shaping our social landscape in contrast with historical contexts of youth culture, the erosion of respect for older generations' experiences, and the adverse effects of prioritizing youthful perspectives over seasoned wisdom.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gender A Wider Lens exclusive content. If you're a free listener, what you're about to hear is a preview of a bonus episode for our paid sub-stack subscribers. |
| 0:11.0 | If you'd like to hear the rest, go to widerlands pod.com and sign up for any of our paid membership |
| 0:16.8 | options. |
| 0:17.8 | And to all of our premium and founding member subscribers, thank you for the support. And here's the bonus conversation. |
| 0:26.0 | Okay, so we're back here with Megan Dom. |
| 0:30.0 | And we wanted to, we had a whole, in the full episode, we had a whole opening about Megan's name. |
| 0:37.8 | So if you want to watch Megan be Lower T-T- traumatized by her name, you can go check it out. |
| 0:45.0 | But yeah, we were wanting to talk with you a little bit about how people |
| 0:50.0 | respond to quote unquote cancellation. |
| 0:54.1 | And I guess like in this digital world, |
| 0:56.6 | like how are we defining that? |
| 0:58.4 | Like that would be the first question. |
| 0:59.8 | Does that mean you've gotten fired from your job? |
| 1:01.6 | Does it mean all your friends have abandoned you and refused to talk to you? |
| 1:04.6 | Does it mean you've gotten blocked by your whole family on Facebook? |
| 1:07.4 | Like, how do you think about cancellation? |
| 1:10.3 | What qualifies of the cancellation? And what have you noticed when people do get |
| 1:15.9 | cancelled per se. Yeah well there's different grades of cancellation, right? |
| 1:22.6 | So there's the kind of epic, your entire career |
| 1:27.0 | ends in the space of 24 hours, |
| 1:30.3 | you'll never work again kind of thing and then there's this kind of light |
| 1:36.4 | cancellation where you just you know lose your friends or you get kind of |
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