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Success Looks Different for Everyone
Driven by a
passion to be
themselves
l aura f inley
Some
peo-
ple are just too
much, as the sto-
ry goes. Or too
“extra,” in the
parlance of to-
day’s youth. That
is, they are more than the status
quo can take. They challenge the
norms, they are unapologetic, and
instead of rejecting it, as is often
expected, they remain fiercely
committed to their difference.
Instead of embracing this at-
titude, we ridicule and we reject
people who are too much. But
isn’t it precisely those over-the-
top people, those creative inno-
vators, those “unruly” people,
people, that are most needed in
our world today?
Instead, we minimize, dismiss,
and marginalize those who don’t
fit nicely into our binary defini-
tions of whatever the issue may
be. Not skinny? You’re too fat.
Too thin? You’re anorexic. Too
optimistic? You’re naïve. Too
somber? You must be clinical-
ly depressed. Ask for what you
by
want? Too pushy. Don’t ask? Not
assertive enough.
While this binary-thinking
problem afflicts the U.S. as a
whole, it is perhaps most acute-
ly on display when we talk about
gender. Women who embrace
their sexuality are too slutty.
Women who refuse to succumb
to prescribed notions for post-
40s dress are too old. Women
who lead are bossy.
During the 2016 presidential
campaign (and through all of
women are part of the problem.
Writing in Forbes in April
2012, Jenna Goudreau notes how
women also find others who are
too much to be intimidating.
Women who happen to be attrac-
tive and also have a successful
career and personal life are of-
ten persona non grata with other
women.
Popular culture contributes to
this notion that if women with
children happen to be successful
in any realm outside of moth-
While this binary-thinking
problem afflicts the U.S. as a
whole, it is perhaps most acutely
on display when we talk about
gender.
her previous campaigns), Hillary
Clinton was repeatedly described
as “shrill” whenever she got an-
imated about a topic. Yet male
candidates often talk loudly (and,
as Donald Trump demonstrated
during the debates) and over fe-
male candidates, this pejorative is
not used to describe them.
And before I am accused of
some radical man-hating agenda,
I completely acknowledge that
erhood, they are instantly less
likeable unless they are that rare
breed of super-palatable celebrity
moms, like Reese Witherspoon
and Jessica Alba. The message
is clear: Tone it down, don’t
push too much, don’t achieve too
much…don’t be too much.
The problem goes beyond
a simple narrowness of identi-
ty. Rather, this view that any-
one who is more than me is too
be disregarded or reviled limits
much-needed social change. As
Anne Helen Peterson wrote in
her book Too fat, Too Slutty, Too
Loud, these unruly people are
the ones who help chip away at
antiquated notions of femininity
and masculinity. They challenge
stereotypes and shatter glass ceil-
ings. It is not people who play it
safe who will be our leaders but
those who take risks and perse-
vere through pushbacks.
So, what if instead of making
fun of the unruly people who are
too-this or too-that, we asked
what it is about our culture that
bothers us so much about some-
one who smashes the either/or
categorizations?
What if we taught our kids
that not only are people differ-
ent from one another in terms of
looks, interests, and abilities, but
that success looks different for
everyone? In fact, what if we en-
couraged all people to go for it?
To pursue with passion what ex-
cites them? To wear what pleases
them? To use their bodies as they
desire?
That’s the kind of world I’m
up for.
Laura Finley, Ph.D., teaches
in the Barry University Depart-
ment of Sociology & Criminology
and is syndicated by PeaceVoice.