April 6th, 2024 -- by Bacchus
It’s Raining Handmaids In Handcuffs
You’ve all heard the “joke” about the programmer/engineer who keeps a loaded gun by his printer in case it makes an unexpected noise and he needs to shoot it. I can only imagine that’s how BabserellaWT felt when her ovulation tracker suddenly demanded to know what state she was in. She wrote:
My ovulation tracker suddenly asked what state I live in
It said telling them was required to continue using the app.
The fuck it is.
I deleted it immediately. Like I’m gonna risk police showing up to my door if I miss a month due to non-pregnancy reasons.
PS BURN THE PATRIARCHY!
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I used to use a period tracker to know when I needed to have a lot of chocolate on hand, then friends told me that those apps used the data for dodgy purposes, so I got rid of it.
Knowing someone’s browsing/viewing habits is one thing, knowing their hormonal cycle is something else. Data privacy is becoming more and more important.
I wonder what to say about this after 20 years of saying “guys! maybe putting so many personal things in centralized servers in a foreign country with no effective national privacy laws would be a bad idea?” People hear a message when they are ready to hear it but how to encourage them on their journey rather than rub their previous poor choices in?
And there was about a year ago a woman on twitter (which I do not have an account for, but have googled and seen said post, but can’t post picture and don’t want to post link herein) *anyway* a woman who posted:
“…My teen daughter was asked by her doctor when was her last menstrual period. She said “it’s regular, no need for dates”. When I asked her why the reply, she told me that doctors can no longer be trusted and they should become accustomed to not knowing. Welcome to the new America….”
Firmly agree. Also (and I am cis-male) I downloaded a period tracker when they revoked Roe vs. Wade and set my dates and then just left it there. Have encouraged other males to do this as well — some of the best information is feeding a system wrong data for days and years.
I like your thinking “fuzzy”!
My doctor didn’t like my blood pressure readings and tried to prescribe medication to change it.
Knowing that normal blood pressures vary from one individual to another, I told them that on the planet that I came from, my blood pressure was normal. He must have thought that I came from Omicron Persei 8, because he said let’s get some blood from you, and send it to a lab, to have your DNA tested.
I said I really wasn’t too keen on the idea, and the doc said “Why are you wanted?”
I replied that I didn’t think so, but in today’s world, I might want to do something in the future, and didn’t want to be on file…
Note to “Justin” I would consider putting on record that you have a period about every 10 days (Just like everyone else on Omicon Persei 8)
Then watch the fun unfold, as government agents dressed in hazmat suits, show up at your door like they did in the film “ET: The Extraterrestrial”!