The idea that “intimacy with one person requires sacrificing another’s privacy” feels overly absolutist. There’s a spectrum between sharing context and violating confidence. Most adults understand that distinction. Treating women as incapable of navigating it feels reductive.
Totally agree, it's part of what rubbed me the wrong way about the article. It operates on the presumption of an inherent social incompetence on the part of women that I think is unfair and untrue.
The idea that “intimacy with one person requires sacrificing another’s privacy” feels overly absolutist. There’s a spectrum between sharing context and violating confidence. Most adults understand that distinction. Treating women as incapable of navigating it feels reductive.
Totally agree, it's part of what rubbed me the wrong way about the article. It operates on the presumption of an inherent social incompetence on the part of women that I think is unfair and untrue.