At a writing group I attended today, an attendee mentioned she was losing her hearing. Someone at the local Commission for the Deaf had told her about an app she could someday use to get live captions at in person events, but she wasn’t sure how it worked.

Within a few minutes, I had this app called Ava downloaded, connected her to the session I started, and we had an hour or so of free, auto-generated (so, imperfect, but better than none) live captioning for the discussion. It was incredible.

Saw someone point out that it's astonishing we still haven't, as a society, come up with a trope about white men to be "a Karen, but male"... but is it?

There's an essay someone could write about how structurally there _can't_ be a male Karen trope, because the features of a Karen (seeks access to authority to gain favor or enforcement of norms on others, doesn't consider others' feelings or needs, acts with unearned authority) aren't broadly deemed bad or wrong in white men.
#misogyny