Sometimes, Problems are Personal. (Advisory: violence, domestic violence, SA of a minor, suicide reference, blood mentioned)
I don't usually write personal accounts. That's not what The Productive Pessimist is about, I tell myself. Problems are universal. Problems don't have names. We're here, as a company, to solve anyone's problems. But The Productive Pessimist also claims to provide the solution by living through the problems. We talk about how our lived experience informs and complements our professional expertise. Which means, sometimes, personal accounts are exactly what The Productive Pessimist is about. The recent EHRC legislation around access to "single sex" spaces is deeply personal. So is Kathleen Stock's recent musing on "why are so many young people using walking sticks, hmmm?" I won't be linking to either of them. They'll come up easily enough on a Google search. I'll be speaking on both of them, because of both of them bring up problems for businesses, and both of them are deeply, brutally personal. The advisory in the title isn...