I'm thinking about the evolution over the years of the word "inappropriate." When I was young, the word had a quite mild connotation. Something "inappropriate" was something that pushed boundaries a bit but wasn't actually forbidden. An inappropriate joke might be something that earned some laughs but also raised eyebrows.

Nowadays, children learn the word inappropriate at school quite practically — by serving detention or receiving some other punishment for "inappropriate" behavior. I'm not exactly sure when the language change started to happen, but for at least the past decade and probably longer, "inappropriate" has come to mean "forbidden" — not just for children but for adults too.

And here we are applying it online to women's health!

I noticed you included algospeak for "lesbian." Unfortunately, as much as the need for that angers me as a queer person, it doesn't at all surprise me.

Facebook and Twitter almost never accept paid advertisements for the LGBTQ stories I publish on Medium and elsewhere.

I wrote an article a few years ago that made the front cover of one of the most prominent LGBTQ print publications in the U.S. Think Facebook algorithms would let me advertise it? Think again.

Writing about queer politics is evidently "inappropriate." It's not just that article. I can advertise almost nothing on Facebook or Twitter. Apparently, the social media powers that be have decided that women and queer people need to sit down and be quiet.

Our issues are "inappropriate," which doesn't technically mean forbidden but might as well mean forbidden.