Blaugust 15: Rubber gloves

Rubber gloves rock for all purposes. Breathing masks also rock. I curse everyone who made fun of me for wearing them! I would like to practice writing low stakes blog posts. So here we go.

I have that rizz'em 'tism where I don't want to do certain things because it makes me feel physically ill. That sensory overload. But rubber gloves help me accomplish such things, they're my +5 gauntlets that make me WANT to do tasks!!!

Tasks I can do with rubber gloves:

• Clean the dishes
• Take out the trash
• Empty the litter boxes
• Garden with wet stuff like dirt and water
• Tidy-up the house.

And face masks go very well with the rubber gloves while doing such cleaning duties.

I not only have the rizz'em 'tism, I get very bad physical reactions to a LOT of things. Like, I walk by Bed Bath and Beyond and start getting dizzy and passing out. Or someone has the air freshener on in the car, or the air conditioner is on too high, and I start getting nauseous and losing consciousness. Or some dude walks by with Axe body spray and I start vomiting. Or I do any sort of cleaning and the dust makes me so allergic that I knock out for the rest of the day. No joke!!! I've never seen the doctor about such things, maybe I should. But for now, I know that masks help me do better in the horrible human world of smellz.

When I was in college, I had a roommate who made fun of me on the first day for wearing gloves (“so dainty!! do you think it's toxic?”) while washing the dishes. That made me self-conscious! But now that I think back on it, they were sort of the crust punk type to wear poo-covered boots in bed. Different strokes.

Similarly, in middle school, there was a rich blonde girl who made fun of me for wearing the same shoes every day. “Don't you have any other shoes?” Damn girl why are you going to the low-income school and being the only white person there to make fun of our poorbie shoes?! I also went to her house once and her mom wouldn't let me have any of the bottled water, and made me drink from the faucet. That made me feel weird because my parents taught me not to drink water from the faucet. My parents probably taught me that because “it's dirty” because they immigrated from a country where the tap water was indeed unclean 99% of the time.

When I was at the veterinarian in the last couple of years, I was sitting in the waiting room. Some guy walks in and starts hollering about “can you believe I saw some jackass wearing a mask outside? What are you afraid of?! How do you even live in the real world being afraid of everything?”, then he looked at me (wearing mask) and then kept talking to the receptionist. The receptionist kept saying “uh huh that's right” to the weird loud dude. I guess she didn't really entirely agree with him but her job is to keep the peace so the weird loud dudes don't raise a ruckus. But that's kinda weird that I'd be the troublemaker if I said anything about weird loud dudes talking shit about people wearing protective gear.

I feel like all the examples I have in this post are kinda racially charged LOL. It's very common and very normal in many Asian cultures to wear masks and gloves for all sorts of things - whether it's masking while getting groceries, or idk wearing gloves while working with bleach in the bathroom. There's just a certain type of cleanliness that I was raised with. And some people of European descent are raised with things like “you can wear shoes ON THE BED” think it's stupid to wear gloves or masks or helmets or whatever. They call it OCD or something, but I don't personally have that disorder out of the 5000 other disorders I have, I just turn red and puffy if something abrasive lands on me. Also I don't want to die of airborne viruses or asbestos inhalation. I just want to live man.

Scout-Chan is a famous mask wearer. More proof that she's Asian for being the only person masked up on a Sunday afternoon?!?!

I wish I had a fancy reusable mask/filter/thingy, and then I could put some fun design on it. Like a clown mouth. Or magikarp or something. Right now I just have black n95's we got in bulk.

I'm currently using extremely thick big blue rubber gloves I got from a store that sells bulk/returned items. I bought like 4 pairs of those gloves for 50 cents each. Those same type of gloves are like $10 on Amazon LOL. They've lasted me very well, they don't get easily cut open by knives or forks like thinner gloves, and they're insulated so I can wash dishes under high heat. I got one pair for the kitchen, one pair for the bathroom, one pair for outside… it kinda rocks to have gloves for different purposes and think about cross-contamination.

I should get some long-ass shoulder length gloves… thotty scientist gloves for handling dead people .

It's really weird to think about how “wearing rubber gloves while handling corrosive chemicals” is looked down upon in certain cultures. It's not just a toxic straight masculinity thing “lol what are you GAY for wearing protection???”. I've been told by lots of non-straight non-dudes that I'm silly/prissy/high maintenence (basically GAY/feminine as a pejorative in the gay community lol?) for wearing gloves or masks. I personally like having my hands intact, and not melted off and turning red and bleeding. I personally like not having diseases (ask me about the weird pre-covid we got during 2020/2019 that left our entire house debilitated for a week).

Idk different strokes I guess I respect our differences. Some people think it's gay to wear helmets while biking or skating. Some people think it's gay to wear seatbelts while in a car. Some people think it's gay to wear a condom during sex and you should just idk deal with pregnancy i guess??? Some people think it's gay to look both ways before crossing the street. Some people think it's gay if you don't take on the dare to put firecrackers up your butthole. Yeah man, sure! I'm gay and I'm proud!

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