{"id":104982,"date":"2026-09-24T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=104982"},"modified":"2026-09-23T16:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:47:35","slug":"small-rift-in-time-brings-2021-dramarama-to-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/small-rift-in-time-brings-2021-dramarama-to-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Small rift in time brings 2021 dramarama to 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

I still occasionally see people going about their business wearing WuFlu masks. I try not to overtly point and laugh, because I’m still pretending to be polite and civilized. Obviously, people should be free to wear or not wear whatever they like so long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. A bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts has apparently been requiring masks for all their patrons since the pandemic but recently decided to ease up the restriction for one night per week, making the masks optional for one day per week. As you might imagine, this move hasn’t gone down well with their customers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Image via Not the Bee<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Crybullying is a way of controlling other people. Predators and psychopaths pose: They deliberately put on sad face<\/a> or hurt face when they want suckers to lower their guard so they can get what they want.<\/p>\n

If you’ve been online today, you’ve probably seen discussion of the mindblowing Boston Globe<\/em> story<\/a> about the lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts that recently decided to start having weekly mask-optional nights, after many years of requiring KN-95 masks or better from patrons. If this is the first time you’re hearing about this, let me just say that no, you haven’t accidentally clicked on an article from 2021. This is happening now.<\/p>\n

After the Last Ditch Bar posted their new mask rules on social media<\/a>, they were immediately buried in rage-inflected comments from people who were in absolute agony over the way the place was just absolutely murdering<\/em> them.<\/p>\n

Sample comment: “You have shattered what I believed your values to be, and you should be ashamed to use the word radical to describe your venue in the same post where you’re announcing a decision to deliberately spread disabling diseases, that we know disproportionately impact marginalized populations, one night each week.”<\/p>\n

Did you know that Covid-19 is medically much worse if you’re a politically radical lesbian? Second sample comment: “This is such a stab in the heart to those of us who have no choice but to protect our health. Esp when l0ng c0vid disproportionally affects queer folk.” That’s an interesting<\/em> observation.<\/p>\n

All of the bar’s efforts to calm the storm made it worse, and a community forum hosted by trained facilitators crashed and burned. I’m not going to describe that event or summarize it, because you should read every incredible detail yourself. Here’s the link again<\/a>, in an archived form that gets you around the paywall and probably requires you to scroll down a bit to get through some blank space at the top. As a preview, though, one of the facilitators was white, which devastated the terrified attendees and made them feel that they were in extreme<\/em> danger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The mandatory mask-wearing somehow became a totem of belonging to the patrons of the bar and after so long, they are now reacting very strongly to any attempt to dilute their shared community with non-mask-wearing heathens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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