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Being heard as confrontational. I find it really interesting how a big part of this blog post she is talking about being perceived or being heard as confrontational. Lets say that for every person, perceiving someone as confrontational is personal. What one person see’s as confrontational, another person might not see the same.

So therefor you are changing the way you talk or act to every person you encounter and how they define confrontational. Also always not saying what you really want to say, or changing it, because you don’t want to be looked upon as confrontational. But then the discussion opens if being confrontational is good or bad. This can also be different in other people’s perspective, but basically saying that if you want to speak up about something or want to make a change you cant be confrontational and have to be in a way submissive to the person higher then you or in charge. So saying that being confrontational is not good because you will end the conversation or will not be taken serious etc.

Looking further you can also say that being confrontational for a man and for a woman are looked different upon. A woman will sooner be labelled as being emotional or just a bitch (usually if she is in a higher position). So therefore when you open the discussion as a woman you always have to watch what you say and you cant be confrontational because you will not be taken serious by men.

Its interesting to think about how we always make ourselves less heard. So when we feel passioned about a topic, if we want to make a change somewhere, fight against rules that discriminate us etc we make ourselves in a way less heard then heard. We start with a wrong, and decide to want to make it right. Instead of fighting for it and letting our voices be heard, we tone down to not be confrontational, to not be labelled as emotional and basically change everything we want to say to even be taken serious and to make sure they (men) will even listen to us.

Theory exercise 7 sept.

BLOGPOST: Confrontation.
Posted on may 4, 2018

- Question: Are we being silenced by institutions, men etc, or are we silencing ourselves because we think if we don’t we will be silenced?

- Quote: ''There is not much point in being silent about why you are protesting when you are protesting silence.''

Practice exercises 12/14 sept.