Victoria R. Hamilton

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Above we talked about how habituation can help with phobias by normalizing the problematic. What Lin was doing, with the term sexual harassment, was the opposite: She wanted to problematize the normal. To reclassify the coercive treatment of women as something abnormal—to attach a stigma to it. She helped society awaken from problem blindness by giving the problem a name.
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
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