Let’s say you have an aquarium of beloved fish. But Bob is overfeeding the fish, causing them to die. So, you raise the point to Bob. But instead of responding to the topic at hand, Bob makes the ...

I almost never correct people who pronounce my name wrong. (It’s Dare-Uh.) Part of the reason I don’t is because, so often, the way I correct people becomes more of the topic at hand over the name ...

The angry black woman trope is a harmful stereotype that allows racism against Black women to continue. Based on this stereotype, Black women are often painted as aggressive, hostile, and threatening.

Tone policing, Anderson tells me, is when someone focuses on how you're expressing yourself rather than what you're actually saying. "It's essentially derailing a conversation by critiquing someone's ...