Dear Facebook,
No, switching over to leet speak as my language on my account and finding that “female” became “sandwich maker” was NOT amusing or funny or a good joke. It was sexist and disgusting; it’s basically another version of the bullshit misogynist putdown “get back in the kitchen”, used to belittle and marginalize women for entirely too long.
If FB for whatever had a “race” setting, would it be okay if the only option for black people was “n*****” or “slave”? Really, how did this even get through?
This is a pretty rotten Easter egg, folks.
No love,
Lupa
PS to readers—here’s where you can go report it: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=ui_profile
A List of What Very Well Could Be My Favorite Songs of 2011
- Adele, “Rolling in the Deep”
- The Black Keys, “Little Black Submarines”
- The Decemberists, “This Is Why We Fight”
- tUnE-yArDs, “Gangsta”
- The Mountain Goats, “Damn These Vampires”
- Bon Iver, “Holocene”
- Danger Mouse, “Black”
- Beastie Boys, “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win”
- My Morning Jacket, “Circuital”
- The Decemberists, “Down By The Water”
A new direction for this Tumblr?
I don’t write here much. I write a lot elsewhere. So I’ve been thinking about what I should do with this blog. Automate some feeds to it. Scrap it. Spice it up. I’m not sure what I’ll do, but I’m leaning towards the latter. I just changed the tagline to “snark-infested watters” if that’s any indication…
