Month: November 2025

Google chooses misandry

I recently got a Future Me email (an email sent to my future me):

Dear FutureMe,

Today is International Men’s Day. Every year, Google celebrates International Women’s Day with a Google Doodle. And every year, Google gives the finger to International Men’s Day. Can you spell misandry?

I deleted my Google account today. I don’t need misandrists in my life.

Me, November 22, 2024

I also deleted my Google account on the theme Make Orwell Fiction Again. I have a hat I bought for myself and as gifts. It seemed hypocritical to have a Google account and be promoting Make Orwell Fiction Again.

Google might have recognized their own misandry and decided to treat men with as much respect as they treat women with a Google Doodle on November 19. But I would not bet money on 2025 being that year.

“Wicked: For Good” – Disney dials Orwell up to 11

The name of the movie: Wicked: For Good

I don’t know that I could come up with a more Orwellian name for a product than that.

There is this word: “wicked” which means morally evil, sinful, of vice, and intentional wrongdoing.

There is this word: “good” which means just about the opposite of that.

Putting these two words together in your product name like that is … perverse.

Wicked, even.

Not good.

Anyway, this post was originally written on 2025-10-21. I went to the movie theater this weekend and watched Tron: Ares 3D. I liked it. Unfortunately, it was a Disney film; I wasn’t thrilled about throwing dollars at them. Of course there were trailers for upcoming Disney movies, and Wicked: For Good was one of them.

SMH.

Orwell would be turning in his grave.