Walgreens Has Gone Woke, And Is Including A SOGI Screen On Its Check-In Kiosk. Twitter Has Exploded.

Yesterday, I took my 13 year old kid to Walgreens so that he and I could get flu shots.  I’d made a clinic appointment on line in advance, so once we arrived, we went up to the check-in kiosk to sign in.  It’s been a year since I’ve been to that clinic, and so I was surprised to see this new screen after I filled out the name/address/etc. fields.

Checking in at a Walgreens clinic and this bulls*t just appeared. 🙄 WTF even ARE some of those words?! pic.twitter.com/0jyhPfvpmY

— Chicks On The Right (@chicksonright) October 13, 2019

For those of you who choose to remember a time when the world wasn’t this stupid and who have no idea what SOGI stands for – it stands for Sexual Orientation Gender Identity.

I quickly grabbed this photo with my phone, and the angle is kinda weird, but what you’re seeing is the full list, with no “other” option at the bottom, and only an arrow to go to the next page on the bottom right corner.  There is no back arrow.  There is no way to move past this screen without making a selection from the list you see.  There is no way to simply not reply.  You gotta pick from the list.  Maybe it works differently at other Walgreens locations.  But this is how it worked at the Walgreens I visited in Carmel, IN.

People on Twitter LOST THEIR SH*T when they saw that I posted this.  Some, who find Walgreens’ attempt at wokeness completely ridiculous, poked fun at it the same way I did. But many many many others were outraged that I tweeted this photo and mocked the words in the list.  I got a lot of, “Did you ask to speak to the manager, Karen?” and “OMG hope you’re OK” kinds of clapbacks, because we live among lots of sheep who believe that this is some sort of sign of amazing and remarkable progress on the part of Walgreens.

There were people who suggested I had altered the photo in some way, and left off more options.  WTF.  As if I’d not want to include even more stupid made-up words if they were listed.  No – the point of taking the screenshot was to demonstrate how a tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction of people have squeaked their wheels so loudly that they’ve required these kinds of mass system changes, and at the same time, Walgreens’ solution is woefully lacking.

The dumbest thing about this pathetic attempt at wokeness is that the list, of course, is not exhaustive.  Not even close.  So what would a person whose chosen pronoun isn’t listed do?  How would they feel?  Would they feel included?  Or would they feel even more isolated?

There are DOZENS of pronouns not included:

fae, faer, faer, faers, faerself, ne, nem, nir, nirs, nemself, per (person), per, per, pers, perself, thon, thon, thons, thon’s, thonself, ve, ver, vis, vis, verself, xe, hir, hir, hirs, hirself, xir, xir, xirs, xirself, ze, zie, zir (zim), zir, zirs

And THAT’s not an exhaustive list.  So why did Walgreens choose that small list?  I have no idea.

Here’s a thought.  Since there are plenty of fields in the sign-in process that are already fill-in-the-blank, why not simply ask, “Hey there – how would you like to be addressed?” or “What is your preferred gender pronoun?”  That’d satisfy the ridiculous woke crowd, and it wouldn’t require constant updating since progressive weirdos keep making up new dumbass pronouns on the regular.

Here’s why Brian thought that wouldn’t work:

I’m try to tell you that an open-ended question like “ What pronouns do you prefer we use when addressing you?” will not work. You’ll get answers like:
Sam
Mrs. Walker
The patient
A human being
I don’t know what this means

— Brian Drew (@annul2016) October 14, 2019

I guarantee you that people who use traditional pronouns are too ignorant to know how to answer. Even if you could make that field dynamic, most Americans are not smart enough to know what a pronoun is. I’m serious.

— Brian Drew (@annul2016) October 14, 2019

In case you’re wondering if people on the Left have gotten over their 2016 elitism, the answer is no.  They haven’t.

Anyway, Walgreens is semi-woke now.  They obviously have some work to do to achieve full woke, and they’re gonna need a lot more screens than just one in order to get there.

Or, they could just do what I suggested above, and leave the question open ended since the questions are all asked again as soon as you’re face to face with the practitioner.  They won’t do that, because it’ll cost people like this her job:

As one of the people on the national committee to help develop SOGI, I feel like you should be informed your privilege is poking out. You should tuck that back in. Also, we developed this so that underserved communities receive proper health maintenance. You're welcome.

— J Yo ✡ ♉ ♒ ♏ (@JYo430) October 13, 2019

Just a suggestion, in the future, before making assumptions about things because they annoy you, do a little research. This dramatically changes healthcare for this segment of the population. Maybe don't be so selfish. The extra 30 seconds won't make a difference in your care.

— J Yo ✡ ♉ ♒ ♏ (@JYo430) October 13, 2019

I just couldn’t anymore, y’all.  This is a woman whose ACTUAL JOB is to focus on this nonsense.  And she’s not alone.  I shudder to think of the wasted money that’s going towards these types of ridiculous efforts.

JUST ASK THE OPEN ENDED QUESTION and be done with it, already.  Otherwise, if the goal is to be inclusive, and in doing so you’re leaving off a whole bunch of made up gender pronouns, then it’s a massive failure all the way around.

Either be 100% woke or why bother, amirite?

2019 is so stupid.