As someone with a fairly upvoted comment expressing a different perspective than yours, I want to mention that personally I had never heard of Owen until this post except for the disturbing description in the Time article, and that personally I have no interest in advancing my career based on any of my political opinions, so his power is irrelevant to me. While I appreciate that the last section of your comment came from a place of wanting to be supportive towards early career people like me, I think it oversimplifies the issues and found it a bit condescending. Iām trying to encourage women in my position to speak up more because we have important things to say.
I think itās likely that the difference in the replies to this post and the replies to the official statement by EV UK are from people not reading the link in the EV UK post, and so not getting the full context of the statement.
Edit: Also, if I was trying to impress Owen, wouldnāt I be agreeing with his current perspective instead of arguing that he had over-updated?
Seconding that itās a bit condescending to imply that people who are not digging into Owen might just ālike Owenā or āface cognitive dissonanceā
I also find the concept in the last sentence that commentors might look like they are ābackingā powerful community members, to be gross. Itās not a zero-sum situation. This might not be exactly what Hattie meant by ābackingā but I think others night feel vindicated that thatās a good way to look at it. But Owen and the woman herself collaborated on the piece so Iād be surprised to find that anyone involved thinks of this situation as like...winner v loser going forward.
As someone with a fairly upvoted comment expressing a different perspective than yours, I want to mention that personally I had never heard of Owen until this post except for the disturbing description in the Time article, and that personally I have no interest in advancing my career based on any of my political opinions, so his power is irrelevant to me. While I appreciate that the last section of your comment came from a place of wanting to be supportive towards early career people like me, I think it oversimplifies the issues and found it a bit condescending. Iām trying to encourage women in my position to speak up more because we have important things to say.
I think itās likely that the difference in the replies to this post and the replies to the official statement by EV UK are from people not reading the link in the EV UK post, and so not getting the full context of the statement.
Edit: Also, if I was trying to impress Owen, wouldnāt I be agreeing with his current perspective instead of arguing that he had over-updated?
Seconding that itās a bit condescending to imply that people who are not digging into Owen might just ālike Owenā or āface cognitive dissonanceā
I also find the concept in the last sentence that commentors might look like they are ābackingā powerful community members, to be gross. Itās not a zero-sum situation. This might not be exactly what Hattie meant by ābackingā but I think others night feel vindicated that thatās a good way to look at it. But Owen and the woman herself collaborated on the piece so Iād be surprised to find that anyone involved thinks of this situation as like...winner v loser going forward.