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10/28/09
Our society has the erroneous assumption that kicking out a kidney is akin to donating blood, and that the only important thing is 'healing' the sick recipient, even though transplants aren't cures, and the majority of recipients will need multiple donations to achieve a 'normal' life expectancy.
Ironically, it's living donors themselves who have internalized the idea of being 'heroes' that don't want to hear how the medical community dismisses and abuses them for their $400,000-$500,000 fee. #femalebloggers
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Gould: "...the photos that accompanied the essay were of me lying (rather unprovocatively, to my mind) in bed." This is disingenuous. The photo is below. Magazines just don't publish pictures like this of male authors, lying in unmade beds and smiling sensually up at the viewer.
(I have no personal animosity toward Gould, but I do believe the picture is meant to be provocative and it's fatuous to say otherwise.) #femalebloggers
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I mean, what's LiveJournal and the various LJ-alikes? I've never seen it as social networking, I don't use it in order to "network socially" I use it to express myself. #femalebloggers
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I just checked out LJ's user stats. Of those who gave their gender, 65% are female. #femalebloggers
10/28/09
I have my own blog, and I can't tell you how stringent I have had to be to keep this type of person from becoming a serious threat.. even though I don't really say much of anything important on said blog. Most of my haters come from following comments I have made on other blogs that they suppose I should be punished for... to my own blog to threaten me on home turf. I can understand why so many women don't want to deal with it, none of us should have to, but in my own way I hope my not-backing-down and defense of my own internet identity will make it easier for others down the line. Fuck the haters, they be hatin'- they ain't shit.. #femalebloggers
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Really? Is she serious? #femalebloggers
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Because ...wow, SO UNTRUE. I LOVE intellectual jousting. With all my girly heart.
I DON'T like being the subject of ridicule for my size, shape, gender, or other non-salient-to-an-intellectual-discussion features.
But in my experience, it's not women that fall back on that tactic when they're "losing"...it's men. Men who feel that my gender makes me automatically inferior.
When I've seen this addressed on other blogs by women for women the criticism from other women is "You're mean!", not "You're fat!" or "You're stupid!". I don't think this means female bloggers are generally represented by more aggressive women, I think it means even relatively easy-going women feel confident on the Internet expressing their viewpoint. Then again, there are those that have to move because of threatening commentors. ...so I guess it's just a normal mash-up of women, like in the normal world?? #femalebloggers
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At least vampires are trendy y'all. : ) #femalebloggers
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I've seen this conflict play out so many times on Jezebel and other websites and publications on a number of issues (Rihanna, the mommy wars, what exactly "feminist" means, etc...), and it really illustrates what I think Ms. Gould was trying to point out: there are so many different kinds of women, with so many different backgrounds and thought processes and biases and aspirations, and it would be wonderful if more of those diverse voices were heard. Just because we only hear from certain women does not mean that they have to represent all women. #femalebloggers
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1. I write all day at work, then I come home and write some more on my book and my essays. I am also training for a marathon, and I hope that next year I'll be a graduate student. Someone kindly tell me where the free time to write a blog is located. If you can find it, I'll blog.
2. There are already a lot of other women blogging on the topics that interest me, and they are doing it much better, thanks in no large part to the fact that they actually have the time to do so. (See #1)
3. Most of the energy I do have for blog-related activities is spent here. Because I love this site and I love you fucking dykes. #femalebloggers
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I for one, would like to question a few of the assumptions. Technorati does have good data about blogging, but there are definite holes. I wonder how much of this dynamic mimics the whole "minorities don't blog" myth - where people will come and tell me to my face that the problem is that someone needs to teach POC how to blog, instead of realizing we have vibrant communities online - just not in predominantly white spaces, which are the only ones that count.
In addition, I know that Technorati has also been making some interesting assumptions about bloggers and compensation. If so, who are they counting as bloggers? Compensated or uncompensated? Did they cull these results across all blogs, or across their top 100? Or their top 20000?
In addition, I find it interesting that discrimination didn't pop up - the fact that women writing about politics aren't taken as seriously as men, or African Americans writing about politics are considered race bloggers and not politicos.
I've got mad methodology issues here. #femalebloggers
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