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How tone policing silences marginalized voices in professional spaces

I keep getting told I am too aggressive in meetings but my white male colleagues say the exact same things and get called passionate.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The selective application of behavioral standards functions as a mechanism to maintain existing power structures.

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