{"id":2970,"date":"2023-01-31T21:47:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2023-01-31T21:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:47:53","slug":"bring-your-authentic-self-is-code-for-we-want-to-regulate-your-entire-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/31\/bring-your-authentic-self-is-code-for-we-want-to-regulate-your-entire-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bring your authentic self&#8221; is code for &#8220;we want to regulate your entire life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time (not as often recently, I think) I&#8217;ve seen calls to &#8220;bring your authentic self&#8221; to work, social media, etc. The idea is that we, the loving community, want to know all your cute and quirky little habits. We want to see the whole person. <\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t only want to know that you&#8217;re an expert on differential equations. We want to know that you play bluegrass mandolin, that you love soccer, and that you&#8217;re a fan of Martin Scorsese films. <\/p>\n<p>This is a lie. <\/p>\n<p>What they really want is to ensure that all your &#8220;cute and quirky little habits&#8221; line up with the approved standards. <\/p>\n<p>You can be a genius at differential equations, but if you listen to the wrong podcasts, you&#8217;re canceled. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bring your authentic self&#8221; is tyranny. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time (not as often recently, I think) I&#8217;ve seen calls to &#8220;bring your authentic self&#8221; to work, social media, etc. The idea is that we, the loving community, want to know all your cute and quirky little habits. We want to see the whole person. We don&#8217;t only want to know that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/31\/bring-your-authentic-self-is-code-for-we-want-to-regulate-your-entire-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Bring your authentic self&#8221; is code for &#8220;we want to regulate your entire life&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2972,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}