Tone policing, Anderson tells me, is when someone focuses on how you're expressing yourself rather than what you're actually saying. "It's essentially derailing a conversation by critiquing someone's ...

Let’s say you have an aquarium of beloved fish. But Bob is overfeeding the fish, causing them to die. So, you raise the point to Bob. But instead of responding to the topic at hand, Bob makes the ...

Black women are the most tone-policed people on earth… and I would say Black people in general, but far too often we Black men participate in the tone-policing of Black women. That’s what I said at ...