Texas State Capitol, South Facade. Courtesy of the Texas State Preservation Board.

A female-focused dating app named Bumble, based in Austin, Texas, founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd, has lobbied Texas legislators successfully to pass the “cyber-flashing act.” The act

… bans the electronic transmission of unwanted visual material depicting any person’s “intimate parts” as well as the “covered genitals of a male person that are in a discernibly turgid state”.

(Arwa Mahdawi, “Put it away: Texas passes law banning dick pics,” The Guardian, 9-7-19)

Good job, Texas. Let’s work on mass shootings now.

(c) 2019 JMN