Power Tool #4: Embrace Controversy
Controversy. Does it make you run for the hills, or charge into the fray?
Watch the video and find out what feminist activists Jodie Evans, Gloria Steinem, and Shelby Knox have to say about their relationships with controversy.
Controversy gives you a platform, and it also give you an opportunity to define your values. Controversy can nudge you towards clarity. And it can also become a source of strength. What are ways that you have embraced controversy in your life in order to make a positive change?
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
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I really like what Gloria Steinem said about making a strength her weakness. I wouldn’t say that I avoid controversy, though. I tend to run straight up the middle clutching my football. Volunteering for Planned Parenthood has helped me learn how to do that more skillfully, however. I used to just run my mouth, but now I’ve learned how to prepare my talking points in advance and then stick to the talking points, no matter what the opponent says.
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I loved the part in this chapter when E. J. Graff told you: “Many women do have internal censors that are overactive and need to be overcome. Being a good girl works for you in school but against you in worklife.” Amen to that.
And, Gloria, the point you make about controversy nudging us to clarity, being a teacher, a source of strength… yeesh – I wish I could tattoo that on my palm to look at every time my inner good girl kicks in (which is far too often for my liking!). Here’s to opting out of being co-opted.
Losing that “inner good girl” is a concept I will use! Thanks, Manisha.