The Washington Post
For half the country, we are celebrating to easing of mask mandates. But for the other half – women – it is the start of oppression. Fetters details for us how the removal of the facial coverings is going to lead to a social horror people suggesting you gals smile more.
“With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent announcement that fully vaccinated individuals can mostly ditch their masks, glowers and frowns are set to make their return to society and so are the annoying-at-best, threatening-at-worst comments that people often feel entitled to make about them.”
This is the unintentional result that many women are going to be facing, a social fate as problematic as the pandemic.
These former Jeopardy! winners are acting like the alleged conspiracy ‘losers’ ridiculed in the press.
What are we to make when a group of otherwise intelligent folks get together and exhibit unhinged true-believer zealotry as a group? In late April, there were news stories flashing around that a gentleman by the name of Kelly Donohue was a blatant white supremacist. His revelation came about when, as a contestant on the game show
Jeopardy!, he flashed a white-power hand signal in front of the cameras. As the social media firestorm welled, a group of former contestants on the show, gathered as they were in a private FaceBook group, decided to take action in response to this affront.