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It s Time For Women To Break Up With Politeness
If anything is going to incite our conviction to say “no more” to politeness, it might as well be living through an actual plague. Getty Images
A neighbor walked up to me the other day maskless. Even though I m in the high-risk category for COVID-19 due to an autoimmune disease and haven t left my home since the end of February 2020 except to walk my dog, I smiled politely and tried to put six feet between us. A stream of thoughts flooded my mind:
It’s fine, I ll cover myself in hand sanitizer and take a shower and drink an Emergen-C and pray I ll be okay when the only thought that should have been on my mind and which I should have vocalized was “put on a mask and back the hell up.”