Are you as open-minded as you think?
Guess what? I realised that I wasn’t and here’s what I’m doing about it.
I tend to see myself as an open-minded, well-informed guy, your typical progressive, queer liberal who is sufficiently ‘woke’. So when I received Glennon Doyle’s highly-recommended book “Untamed” on my doorstep, courtesy of the Amazon contact-free courier, I surprised myself when I had a momentary but pronounced knee-jerk reaction to the inside cover.
It read “Untamed will liberate women — emotionally, spiritually, and physically”. What was this book doing in my hands?”, I asked myself. Had I completely mis-read the recommendation? I mean, it HAD come from Adele’s Instagram profile and I trust her recommendations implicitly (I really don’t, but let’s go with that for now).
Maybe I was just over-reacting to the marketing pitch, designed to sell as many copies as possible. In any case, I was immediately confronted with the potential of my own narrow-mindedness or perhaps a blind spot.
Why shouldn’t I be reading a book pitched at changing women’s lives? After all, there was something about the tag-line on the front cover that immediately spoke to me and prompted me to purchase it almost instantly: “Stop pleasing, start living”. So, I decided to dive in and not second guess my decision.
