Listen up, men! No, not to me. Listen to everyone around you who is not male.
Look, it is far too easy to run on the assumption that everyone's experiences are like our own.
When we take a second to think about it, we know this isn't true, but still we often relate to people under the idea that their lives have essentially been like ours.
If we speak up in a meeting and get listened to, then surely that is what it is like for everyone. If we can talk about business, cars, sports, etc., and our ideas are not dismissed out of hand, then of course it is the same for other folks.
Search “falling dominoes” online, and you will be deluged with opportunities to watch videos, often set to music, of vast numbers of colorful tiles successively knocking one another over - extravagant examples of the original “domino effect.” The dominoes in these arrangements fall because they are subject to laws...