Taking a stand online is easy. Taking one in the lunchroom face to face is where it’s real.

Posting the right opinion is cheap, because nobody in that thread eats lunch with you. Saying it at a table where the person is sitting across from you costs something immediately: a look, a silence, a week of being slightly outside. That cost is also the reason it changes what actually happens in a room.

Take the smaller in-person version this week instead of the bigger online one. Saying that is not funny to me, or sitting down next to whoever got left out, does more than a repost. Nobody shares it, and it still matters more.