Ever since this pandemic started and I read about all the angry assholes refusing to abide by any sort of basic safety measures, I keep thinking of that kid in the testimonial video for Patrick Swayze’s pedophile character in Donnie Darko. The kid’s mother talks about how he used to wet the bed and cry a lot, but now…

I swear that men’s inability to learn how to social distance is the reason that men that are being hit harder by this illness.  

This shit goes right along with talking about your feelings.

The guys that irritate the crap out of me are the ones that don’t cover their nose with the mask, or just wear it to cover their chin. Half the time I’m in the store I want to give them the lecture, but I hold my breath and dash past them as fast as I can.

Almost every person I see in my Queens neighborhood is wearing masks. But it’s definitely all the older (appearing maybe 60+) men who are wearing those masks either just over their mouth but not their nose, or who have pulled the mask down underneath their chin

A brave man is not afraid of a little water on his face, but even a fool has enough sense to get out of the rain.

I’ve been lucky enough to have only left I think 3 times since late March, but my anecdotal evidence completely agrees with this. What’s crazy to me is when I see people shopping together, and the women will be wearing a mask and the man won’t be. Like what the hell? Really? Beyond the fact that did both you need to…

There was an interesting piece, can’t remember where, talking about how the nation has been fundamentally unable to grapple with the reality of the pandemic because we lack images of people suffering and dying from it. Due to privacy/HIPAA laws, there are next to not photos of patients choking and dying with…

“I care enough about the health of people around me that I’m willing to do inconvenience myself to protect them”.

I had an ex who wouldn’t even use an umbrella because he said it was weak and not manly. I can’t even believe I was with him for 6 years, it feels like a feverish nightmare.

Men in general seem less likely to go to the doctor for any medical care. I am guessing this is part of the reason we outlive them. It’s not manly to take pills or not be able to fix your own problems. My dad will go to the doctor, but he refuses to take allergy or blood pressure medication. He would rather sneeze his…

I work in marketing at a law firm and am currently preparing a guidance document on how our attorneys can appropriately present themselves and best represent the firm once they begin to have in-person meetings with clients again. It’s two pages, but I can give you the gist in 7 words:

Well, this is a group of people that even before this shit happened were convinced they didn’t need to wash their hands after peeing. I’m proud to say I have hounded my 75 year old Dad into constantly washing his hands and he is the mask King, and he washes his mask regularly, and he carries hand sanitizer and a towel…

This reminds me of a study that came out last year that found that men tend to care less about climate change than women and are less willing to do things like use reusable grocery bags because they think it makes them look more feminine and less masculine. The world is burning and may be uninhabitable for our…

I wonder how much of this relates to work culture of professions dominated by dudes. My own discussions with highly educated genuinely whip smart white collar co-workers confirm that this isn’t just a thing with disaffected uneducated white guys from rural Alabama named Cletus. It’s a problem with masculine culture,…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but also isn’t eating on the subway mostly verboten? And the privilege of straight up wasting a box of cereal and a gallon of milk is infuriating. 

They were more likely than women to agree with the idea that wearing a mask is “shameful, not cool, a sign of weakness and a stigma.”

And it’s sugar-y milk so it has to be cleaned up property to avoid stickiness or dank smell from spoilt milk. Fuuuuuck this asshole with a salted cactus.

Seriously. All I can think about is the people that have to clean that shit up. 

I'm afraid Trump and the Republicans will somehow cheat. Like, "challenging the results" in dozens of red states with judges that were appointed by Mitch and in Trump's tic tac-filled pockets.