“So no, excuse me, we will not play likability anymore. It’s an endless runner – a game with no progress and no finish line – that women are expected to chase, that keeps us from doing the real work, accruing the real power. Chasing likability has been one of women’s biggest setbacks, by design. I don’t know that rejecting likability will get us anywhere, but I know that embracing it has gotten us nowhere.”
