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."
I've since determined that women's "be polite now, solve the problem later" mentality has got to go in 2021. Being polite is not more important than protecting yourself from COVID-19. Interviews with over two dozen women, spanning Gen Z to Boomers, residing in over a dozen states and four countries, reveal that women resoundingly agree. If anything is going to incite our conviction to say "no more" to politeness, it might as well be living through an actual plague.
Of course, that's easier said than done.
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