Blogaround

1. Evangelical Speaker: Gay Men Are Nice, Straight Men Are Rapey (posted February 20) Well, this is where you end up if your ideology contains nothing about consent.

2. Trouble on Sesame Street (posted 2019) "I am autistic, like Julia. Instead of a childhood full of social rejection and isolation like mine, Julia’s life modeled a better world, until very recently."

3. For the amount of ‘let’s start a new generation in space’ concepts, there’s a noticeable lack in maternity space clothing... so here we are! (posted February 22) Yes! I love this!

4. This violinist played her instrument as surgeons removed a brain tumor (posted February 19) "The tumor, in her right frontal lobe, was dangerously close to areas of her brain that were responsible for coordinating delicate movements in her left hand."

5. And we're still plugging along here in Shanghai. This week seems like most people are back at their jobs. The subways have lots of people but it's still noticeably less than normal. (The previous 2 weeks, the subways were extremely empty.)

It's weird how I've just gotten used to this whole "everyone wears a mask all the time" thing. Like, for the past month, I've VERY RARELY SEEN anybody's nose or mouth, except at home. At the office everybody wears a mask. On the subway, everybody wears a mask. Taxi drivers wear masks. The security guards who check everyone's temperature wear masks. Everyone wears a mask. Sometimes I happen to look at a photo taken a few months ago and it's a bit startling to see "here is a group of people in public and nobody is wearing a mask." So weird how this has just become normal.