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Jan. 3rd, 2012 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lupagreenwolfDear 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
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
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on 2012-01-04 04:30 am (UTC)I am horrified.
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on 2012-01-04 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
on 2012-01-04 09:55 am (UTC)Clearly I need to get off my ass and delete my facebook account like I've been meaning to for the past month. >:(
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on 2012-01-04 03:30 pm (UTC)Still appalled, but this may no longer be an active issue.
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on 2012-01-04 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2012-01-05 05:50 pm (UTC)