Things I Am More Worried About Than "Call-Out Culture": An Incomplete List

[tim]

1. Forgetting to clean the lint filter in the dryer and starting a fire in the laundry room.

2. Gingivitis.

3. Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

4. Unpaid library fines.

5. Getting botulism from canned food.

6. Getting cancer from having to go through airport body scanners, even though I have TSA Precheck

7. Getting salmonella from drinking a cocktail with raw egg white in it.

8. Splinters.

9. My cats getting rabies, even though they're vaccinated and don't go outside.

10. Defamation lawsuits.

11. Making a mistake on my taxes.

12. Toenail fungus.

13. Eating the wrong part of rhubarb.

14. Amtrak derailments.

15. Getting falsely accused of sexual harassment.

16. Sunspots causing bugs in my code.

17. Not understanding IEEE floating point.

18. Celery.

19. Split ends.

20. Stepping on a power cord.

Comments

[spiralsheep]

[Here via friendsfriends] This is a great idea for a meme. My list, that I'll blog tomorrow...

10 Things That Worry Me More Than "Call-Out Culture" (this list goes ALL THE WAY UP TO 11!!)

1. Hypothetical future papercuts.

2. The precise origin of an odd smell near that one grating on my way to the shops.

3. Whether I should wear a waterproof jacket or if I can get away with my hoodie when the weather’s a bit iffy.

4. My vacuum cleaner catching fire because I don’t clean the filter often enough.

5. If I should have another hot drink immediately before bedtime.

6. Whether my local corner shop will have milk next time I want some at an ungodly hour of the night.

7. If I wiped the lid of that tin of food sufficiently before I opened it.

8. Whether my favourite venue will run out of free listings magazines before I snaffle one so I have to go around the corner especially to pick one up.

9. If my office chair might explode (no, rly, I actually worry about this!)

10. Whether freecycling an unused bottle of bath foam worth 99p will make me look like a weirdo.

BONUS 11. Whether globe artichokes are some sort of plot against me personally. ::suspicious eyes::

[tim]

Don't worry about the bath foam, I've seen much weirder things on Freecycle.

[flippac]

Mostly I worry about the idea of calling out serving as cover for actual abusers - TERFs are a common example, and it happens at small scales too.

Thing is, abusers'll weaponise anything. Including that worry.

[tim]

That's the gist of it, I think: that abusers will weaponize anything. In that light, I think blanket dismissals of "call-out culture" don't help, and considering situations individually does.

[shadowspar]

I don't have enough brain rn to put together even a half-dozen bullet points, but if I were to assemble a list of things that worry me more than "call-out culture", I can say with certainty that "being kicked to death by ducks" would feature prominently in it.

[tim]

Not nibbled?

[miang]

Thanks a LOT, Tim, now I'm worried about all of those things too. :( (Still not call-out culture, though, wtf.)

[tim]

Oh yeah, and:

21. bugs flying in my mouth at night while I'm camping without a tent

22. somebody urinating in my bike water bottle while I leave my bike locked somewhere with the water bottle still attached

[graydon2]

Oh Jesus my library fines!

[tim]

I think the public library was emailing the wrong address and as a result, I owe them $64.

(Still probably less than if I'd bought all those books as ebooks or something.)