authenticity

I often remember, with mixed feelings, the commercials of my youth where a guy in a lab coat and a clipboard advised women just what detergent to buy. We may laugh at the stereotype which is loaded with enough cultural signifiers (yep, it’s gonna be that kind of post) to write an entire book about, but in our hip and knowing, ad-resistant and social-media-aware times we have still not managed to get past the stereotypes, ourselves.

I started this morning with a TED talk by Brene Brown if you do not know who she is or what she does I would recommend clicking on the link and seeing the video for yourself, even if it means that then you won’t have time to read what I have written next.