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

[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.