Posts tagged #learnedhelplessness
Are people still interested in DEI? Turns out yes.
Are people still interested in DEI? Turns out yes.

After an energizing and engaging week, I was all fired up to write this blog post about sexual harassment in middle school… but after an emotional weekend, I’ve found I don’t have it in me to get all fired up right now.

Rather than pushing myself through, I’ve decided to save that for another time, and instead to share some of our most popular blog posts from the past… which lead me to be curious to look at our website stats (which honestly we don’t look at in the way we probably should) to see if traffic has dropped off this year, what with the DEI pushbacks and all.

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Co-creating inclusionAlethea Fitzpatrick#DEIforthelonghaul, #equity, #learnedhelplessnessComment
Entitlement as a form of learned helplessness
Entitlement as a form of learned helplessness

There is a phenomenon that I’ve been thinking about both in personal and professional contexts.

It’s when entitlement leads to a certain kind of helplessness, ignorance, incompetence or even misconduct.

For example, it’s when someone, usually a man, “doesn’t know how to cook” even though they would have been quite capable of learning if they’d ever had to, rather than lived their entire lives expecting and having others (women) to cook for them.

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Dismantling oppressionAlethea Fitzpatrick#entitlement, #learnedhelplessness, #overfunctioningComment