Last Night’s Oscars Reminded Me Why Silence Is a Strategy (Just Not the Right One)

The Oscars are over. The dresses have been reviewed, the speeches have been dissected, and somewhere in Los Angeles, a publicist is already on their second cup of coffee wondering if their client said the right thing. If you watched last night, you saw beautiful. You saw gracious. You saw carefully calibrated emotion and well-timed gratitude. What you probably didn’t see was courage.