If I seemed quiet on Facebook last week
I got banned, and it was my own damn fault. Except Facebook also kind of screwed me.
First off, thank Buddha for my friend Carrie, my sole moderator, feminism advisor, psychotherapist, super close friend, and lover of my lamb stew. She had the ability to keep posting my history pieces for me for the seven days I had the ban, so people didn't notice. But nothing else was posted during those seven days, and I couldn't reply to any comments, even though there were some I really wanted to.
I deserved the ban, but it should have only been 24 hours. I got a ban back in July when I shared something that was deemed pornographic as a comment on a friend's post. It was an image of Edward Scissorhands, except the hands were women doing "scissors". You couldn't actually see anything, but I guess that was enough. They screwed me because I only posted it the one time and they double banned me for it, eating through my warning and my 24 hour ban all at once. Jerks.
And then a few weeks ago I shared a tweet promoting voter fraud, but I mercilessly mocked it. They took it to be me promoting voter fraud, and I got a 3 day ban. But that ban was lifted within an hour because they realized they screwed up. However, with this most recent ban they still have it as my last one being 3 days, so they escalated the punishment up to 7 days. The next one is 30 days, but I have my wife as an admin now so hopefully if I do get banned I won't have to ask Carrie again. I believe these bans come off after a year. At any rate, I'll be much more careful moving forward.
I expect you're wondering what I got banned for. I deserved it, because it was a stupid comment. A trumper made a racist comment on my page, and I replied with "Kindly set yourself on fire." I guess that's interpreted as promoting self harm. I mean, guys can make rape threats and be racist as hell and not get banned. Perhaps he got his trumper buddies to mass report it.
Next time I'll write something more poetic like "Might I suggest an intimate relationship with a Cuisinart?" Hmmm. The text editor says that's a spelling error.
If you're curious, one of the posts I really wanted to engage with was about the Jonestown Massacre (Link: https://www.facebook.com/bodyforwife/posts/3656219557772146).
There were several people who missed my point about not using the term "drink the Koolaid" any longer. They seemed to latch on to it being Flavor Aid and missed the primary point that many didn't die willingly; they were murdered. They were forced to drink.
"Drink the koolaid," the way it gets applied, therefore, is erroneous. When we say it to a trumper about them being in a cult and going to anti-mask protests the intent is to mock their willingnessto engage in self-destructive behavior, but in the case of Jonestown so many of them didn't want to die. I will look to be making tweaks to see if I can make that more clear for the book version, but it's tough because I need to follow a strict word count for each piece to make sure they don't go beyond a single page.
Speaking of the book, within 3 weeks I should be finished the first draft. I began on April 18th of this year and as soon as I'm finished this post I'm going to write about Feb 20 and then keep cranking them out. Then it's time for editing like a mofo. I'm looking at self-publishing companies to help me get it out asap, because I didn't want to screw around with the slow as fuck traditional publishing industry this time around. I've done that twice now and it's time to try something different. My goal is to have the release date be April 17th, which is the day I had an epiphany about doing this column and convinced me to leave my previous writing life behind and switch to what I feel I was meant to do. I can't guarantee it will be ready by then, but I'm certainly shooting for it. I want it to be available as a Mother's Day present, because a lot of moms follow my work.
Oh, about the ban stuff. I'd appreciate if you didn't spread that around. I'm paranoid that trumpers may see it and say "It worked! Mass report everything!" They're a little upset right now. Insert Nelson from The Simpsons saying "Ha-HA!" here.
But as for writing the daily column, I need to get back to that. I wanted to mention it because while I'm going to try to post stuff here as much as I can, it's going to be kind of light for the first few weeks because I'm cranking out the dailies to get the first year finished. Once I switch to editing them (probably around Dec 10) then I'll have a lot more bandwidth to give you what you're paying for.
Thanks for your generous support. I'm overwhelmed at how many subscribers I have only a day after launch. Tell your friends!
Oh, and I recommend avoiding intimate relations with any kitchen appliances.