According to a piece on feminist Internet, it was completely unacceptable for straight, white cisgender people to write about the shooting in Orlando the day it happened — at all.

“If you are a cisgender, heterosexual, white person, please do not write about the largest mass shooting in American history, which took place this Sunday at a gay club called Pulse in Orlando during the venue’s Latino night,” Mariella Mosthof writes in a piece for Bustle titled “Dear White, Hetero, Cis People: Please Don’t Co-Opt This Tragedy.”

According to Mosthof, although it’s totally fine to “share condolences” and “tell your queer Latinx friends that you love them,” it is not fine to write about it at all . . . not even to “publicly point out the hypocrisy of Paul Ryan tweeting ‘thoughts and prayers’ when the legislative agenda of his party actively marginalizes queer people all the time” or to “wax poetic about the outrage of Trump supporters doing the same, while their presidential hopeful advocates building a wall intended to keep out the very folks Pulse was aiming to create a safe space for,” or to “condemn confused conservatives who are blaming this on radical Islam.”

(Note: By “confused conservatives who are blaming this on radical Islam,” she means “people who think that a shooter pledging his allegiance to ISIS while murdering people indicates that those murders had to do with radical Islam.)

In fact, she said that it’s not okay for white, cis, hetero people to even write about not writing about it:

“And while we’re at it, do not write an article or a Facebook post patting yourself on the back for not saying any of these things, because even that takes valuable space away from the marginalized people who this story is really about,” she continues.

#related#At the end of the piece — and only at the end of the piece — she seems to suggest that she was seeking to implement these no-writing only for the day that she published the piece, that is, the Sunday that the attacks happened:

“If you are an ally, of course, your suffering matters too, and you are welcome to express your emotions,” she writes. “But, today, let searing indictments and heartbreaking personal accounts come from queer people, and especially queer communities of color.”

Well, Mosthof, I sure am glad that I am at least “welcome to express [my] emotions.” That sure is a nice thing for you to allow me to do.