Don't mess with a programmer

One of the benefits of working for a large and successful multinational company is that they tend to give their employees a lot of free merch. 

So today I went onto our corporate partner website to place an order for yet another branded T-shirt celebrating our latest software release. Having selected my desired size, I then moved on to the shipping info. And here were the options presented to me for "state" (i.e. region):

This is not cool. I take a very dim view of some woke activist somewhere in the USA trying to use an innocuous business transaction to advance a controversial political agenda.

So, naturally I lodged a complaint with management. But I wanted my merch, anyway. And I refused on principle to fill in my address with the option supplied. So, I didn't.