If Social Media Bear Responsibility for Content...

If social media bear responsibility for content

then they must responsibly take action

to prevent hatecrimes against women,

the first Congress that looked like America 

ruled unanimously in September 2025.

All social media now worked only on devices

with touch screens that scanned fingerprints

and microscopically analyzed DNA

and so identified maleness even in transfolk,

and whenever a male uttered the F word

in a context that suggested hate or violence

a squad car traced his location, rolled up,

and installed a monitor inside his pants,

removal of which was punishable by life

in a solitary padded cell, typically lasting

a year or less, as most guys refused food.

Even pretty girls found it hard to get dates

even if they were rich, and heavy petters. 

World peace was achieved, and lasted,

because no one was left to fight the wars.

World population dropped fast, and apart

from a few frustrated grandparents

who were easily ignored, or ridiculed,

everyone was glad, because they could afford

real estate with large, luxurious houses

and people were glad to meet, whenever they did,

and nearly everyone was friendly, cheerful,

and safe on any road at any hour.

(The extroverts were bored, though. No one cared.)

At some time during the transition

women demanded parity of conversation

by camera-phone, and introduced, for men,

the pants-phone. Wouldn't talk to men without one.

Instead of men being able to say,

when a conversation moved off their field of study

or threatened an emotional upheaval,

"Hey, what's that look on your face all about?"

now men became exceedingly careful

to pay attention and stick to the subject,

lest women snap an infrared pants-picture:

"You're getting overexcited, pal. Goodbye,"

or, "What a tiny shrivelled ugly thing!"

At some point after the transition

everyone agreed that camera-phones were a bore

and went back to real phones and real computers

and real conversation, mostly face to face,

but free from conversation about faces,

with lower staring time, and better focus.

The introverts had been doing this all along

but it takes a certain amount of social upheaval

to teach the extroverts the simplest things,

the basic social skill of respecting others.