I value your voice, Rebekah, and almost always agree with you completely.
It’s actually refreshing to find out we don’t approach everything the same, as this post makes clear to me.
My approach here is: “I value Elizabeth Gilbert and trust her to make good decisions. I can do the analysis side of her decision-making fairly completely (as you do here) but I am incapable of feeling her intuition about what’s right - for herself, for her readers, for her publisher, or for other interested voices. I honor her right to match analysis and intuition and make her own choices based on both.”
I also honor your emotional reaction to her choice and hope that -- in addition to your analysis here -- you pay attention to your own intuition about what it’s telling you about your own needs and boundaries.
She has caved into fear of being judged for being politically incorrect, elevating the position of people who believe in absolute moral rights and wrongs, and now she is on a very slippery slope, I'd say. There are so many other topics that are being approached with this mindset these days. But you are so right Rebekah - it those at the top of the game do this then it's really bad for those further down, and this demonstrates how empty and counter-productive such virtue-signalling really is.
Thank you for this piece of your mind - I enjoyed reading it eventhough I was not a fan of eat, pray, love so her skittish shallowness come as no surprise. Having said that there's also a skittish bravery - or so I feel - so next time we hear from Liz Gilbert we might get bowled over with admiration.
Thanks for this. Big Magic is sitting on my shelf unread. There are times when others see “cancel culture” and I see “reasonable or called for pushback,” but not so here. I feel as much or more empathy for the Russian people in this conflict. This is the height of ridiculous.
I would say reasonable pushback is "I disagree with you and here's why." Cancel culture is "your opinion/voice is bad or harmful and you shouldn't be allowed to say it." But yes, this is probably the most ridiculous example I've seen yet.
I loved Big Magic and cannot believe this is the same person. Has she just spent too much time on Twitter following the nuts who shamelessly abuse the word harm?
I value your voice, Rebekah, and almost always agree with you completely.
It’s actually refreshing to find out we don’t approach everything the same, as this post makes clear to me.
My approach here is: “I value Elizabeth Gilbert and trust her to make good decisions. I can do the analysis side of her decision-making fairly completely (as you do here) but I am incapable of feeling her intuition about what’s right - for herself, for her readers, for her publisher, or for other interested voices. I honor her right to match analysis and intuition and make her own choices based on both.”
I also honor your emotional reaction to her choice and hope that -- in addition to your analysis here -- you pay attention to your own intuition about what it’s telling you about your own needs and boundaries.
Hugs!
She has caved into fear of being judged for being politically incorrect, elevating the position of people who believe in absolute moral rights and wrongs, and now she is on a very slippery slope, I'd say. There are so many other topics that are being approached with this mindset these days. But you are so right Rebekah - it those at the top of the game do this then it's really bad for those further down, and this demonstrates how empty and counter-productive such virtue-signalling really is.
Thank you for this piece of your mind - I enjoyed reading it eventhough I was not a fan of eat, pray, love so her skittish shallowness come as no surprise. Having said that there's also a skittish bravery - or so I feel - so next time we hear from Liz Gilbert we might get bowled over with admiration.
Thanks for this. Big Magic is sitting on my shelf unread. There are times when others see “cancel culture” and I see “reasonable or called for pushback,” but not so here. I feel as much or more empathy for the Russian people in this conflict. This is the height of ridiculous.
I would say reasonable pushback is "I disagree with you and here's why." Cancel culture is "your opinion/voice is bad or harmful and you shouldn't be allowed to say it." But yes, this is probably the most ridiculous example I've seen yet.
I like these definitions! I’ll use them
I loved Big Magic and cannot believe this is the same person. Has she just spent too much time on Twitter following the nuts who shamelessly abuse the word harm?