Idk if i can blame this on Men in general but i am LOSING MY MIND with rage over how my male coworker who has multiple times taken time off for “feeling feverish without having a fever” (seriously!!!) responded to me saying i got covid tested today but i was pretty sure its just allergies with “oh yeah I’ve been having a lot of different allergy symptoms lately” and when i asked which ones:
The CDC offered to do contact tracing for the White House and notify all those potentially infected. The WH said turned them away. There are many reports of those who came in contact with positive cases only learning that they were exposed from news reports, not by any WH contract tracers.
Both Florida and Texas online voter registration websites broke before the registration deadline. Residents of Florida were given an extra day to register.
Facebook banned QAnon across all its platforms to “bring to parity what we’ve been doing on other pieces of policy with regard to militarized social movements” and limit the “ability of QAnon and Militarized Social Movements to operate and organize on our platform.”
words like ‘homophobia’ and ‘islamophobia’ are ableist and stigmatize ppl with panic disorders
some people started using trans* to indicate non-binary, agender, two spirit, etc. inclusion. people sent you anon messages if you forgot the asterisk. then someone wrote a popular post about how trans* was actually problematic. if you didn’t switch back to trans (without asterisk) overnight you got called out.
YOU MUST PUT EVERY POSSIBLE DESCRIPTOR OF YOUR SOCIAL IDENTITY IN AN EASILY ACCESSIBLE LOCATION ON YOUR PAGE. in practice, this is mostly so people can determine what would be the most socially acceptable way to insult you.
using all caps is also ableist, btw, as it may trigger anxiety
people getting called out for not captioning every image on their page in the Tumblr Approved Style, which differed significantly from standard captioning procedures, and iirc, tended to be confusing if you actually used a screenreader.
it seemed like lady gaga was the most problematic recording artist of all time
meanwhile, FEMINIST RYAN GOSLING
the blog “yourfaveisproblematic”
the blog “feministdisney”
the long, ridiculous saga of the “privilege denying dude” meme