Screenshot of a quote from This American Life, Episode 696: "Low Hum of Menace," accompanied by a profile picture of a woman. The text discusses how a woman handled interactions with a powerful man, Eric Pender. It describes a pattern of behavior common among women in similar power dynamics: laughing, deflecting, pretending, telling half-truths, demuring, changing the subject, biting her tongue, smiling and agreeing too much, hiding anger and emotions, and burying her personality. The narrator notes that this behavior, so familiar among women, was dubbed “the tactic” in conversations with others, including a woman named Khristen.

“The tactic.” 🎧 In This American Life, Episode 696: “Low Hum of Menace,” women describe the quiet toll of gendered power imbalances with men.

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