Willingness to dialogue (and why we still get paid less)

By Sofía Ramírez, Director of @MexicoComoVamos

There are few things as shocking as someone telling you something you consider false. When a terraplanist on social networks makes a video to prove his theory, there are thousands of users who ridicule him. Sometimes it is funny because it seems obvious to us that this person is wrong; but we follow it head on without asking ourselves why a person in the XXI century would doubt that the earth is round. Maybe that's a conversation we should all have, is it a religious belief? Was it the kind of education he/she received? Is he/she afraid of falling into the void?

Let's take the side of the person who is wrong according to the majority opinion. No one wants to be the dissenting voice in a room full of like-minded people who think they are right. It's like saying that God doesn't exist at a religious retreat, or that you defend the right to have an abortion at a family meal. Good luck engaging in dialogue; what you will get is collective condemnation.