Comments on: Ripples of bitterness http://electrolicious.com/2006/11/ripples_of_bitternes Daily affirmations of a word mercenary Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:18:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Electrolicious» Blog Archive » FAQ: Postfeminism http://electrolicious.com/2006/11/ripples_of_bitternes#comment-8913 Electrolicious» Blog Archive » FAQ: Postfeminism Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:22:11 +0000 #comment-8913 [...] jesus. You really want to get me in trouble again, don’t you? Ok, I will write out a full answer to this question, but first with some caveats: [...] [...] jesus. You really want to get me in trouble again, don’t you? Ok, I will write out a full answer to this question, but first with some caveats: [...]

]]> By: Playapixie http://electrolicious.com/2006/11/ripples_of_bitternes#comment-7265 Playapixie Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:09:20 +0000 #comment-7265 Crazy. It was a blog post. Blogs are for writing personal whatever-you-want. Even as a magazine article, it was still an editorial, an opinion. It's not like you wrote it as fact, or even as an information piece. Gah. People sure get worked up over nothing. Crazy. It was a blog post. Blogs are for writing personal whatever-you-want. Even as a magazine article, it was still an editorial, an opinion. It’s not like you wrote it as fact, or even as an information piece. Gah. People sure get worked up over nothing.

]]> By: Victoria http://electrolicious.com/2006/11/ripples_of_bitternes#comment-7267 Victoria Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:20:12 +0000 #comment-7267 As an occasional reader of both your blog and Twisty's, I just want to say this makes my heart ache. Much of the critique, I thought, was fair (however, I thought that before I knew about the last-sentence-edit issue), though the pile-on is another matter entirely. The really fucked up thing for me here is that I had been considering doing some public writing around my own weight loss/gain issues over the last few years, which are complex, nuanced (like any human being's life issues will be, regardless of how they are represented in the various public squares). Certainly, you're handling all of this with more grace than I would. Chin up, keep writing, take care of yourself, learn from it all, move on, be happy. Oh and also, <em>death to the patriarchy.</em> You know, that force that divides women from other women in order to facilitate all its conquering and shit. :) - V. (Who often wishes she were still in Seattle, so as to take in this Salon of Shame thing I keep hearing about via Joriel and Ben, et. al.; dammit, why didn't I think of that?) As an occasional reader of both your blog and Twisty’s, I just want to say this makes my heart ache. Much of the critique, I thought, was fair (however, I thought that before I knew about the last-sentence-edit issue), though the pile-on is another matter entirely. The really fucked up thing for me here is that I had been considering doing some public writing around my own weight loss/gain issues over the last few years, which are complex, nuanced (like any human being’s life issues will be, regardless of how they are represented in the various public squares).

Certainly, you’re handling all of this with more grace than I would.

Chin up, keep writing, take care of yourself, learn from it all, move on, be happy.

Oh and also, death to the patriarchy. You know, that force that divides women from other women in order to facilitate all its conquering and shit. :)
- V. (Who often wishes she were still in Seattle, so as to take in this Salon of Shame thing I keep hearing about via Joriel and Ben, et. al.; dammit, why didn’t I think of that?)

]]> By: alphabitch http://electrolicious.com/2006/11/ripples_of_bitternes#comment-7274 alphabitch Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:20:50 +0000 #comment-7274 Your comment ["In my efforts not to be a diva, I approve most edits. Maybe I shouldn't"] reminds me of a joke: An editor and a reporter are walking through the desert, running out of water. They come to a tiny pool of brackish water seeping out of a rock and they're overjoyed; the editor proceeds to squat over the tiny pool and pee in it. The reporter, furious, asks her what in the hell she's doing. "Just giving you a little more to work with," she says. Discussing legitimate concerns about an edit is not the same as being a diva. You are right that weight loss is one of those issues that can instantly rile up the feminist blogosphere. Difficult but I hope not impossible to engage in a polite discourse about it. Oh, and clowns are deeply disturbing, but I like the fire dancing. Have you seen the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus? Your comment ["In my efforts not to be a diva, I approve most edits. Maybe I shouldn't"] reminds me of a joke: An editor and a reporter are walking through the desert, running out of water. They come to a tiny pool of brackish water seeping out of a rock and they’re overjoyed; the editor proceeds to squat over the tiny pool and pee in it. The reporter, furious, asks her what in the hell she’s doing. “Just giving you a little more to work with,” she says.

Discussing legitimate concerns about an edit is not the same as being a diva.

You are right that weight loss is one of those issues that can instantly rile up the feminist blogosphere. Difficult but I hope not impossible to engage in a polite discourse about it.

Oh, and clowns are deeply disturbing, but I like the fire dancing. Have you seen the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus?

]]> By: savia http://electrolicious.com/2006/11/ripples_of_bitternes#comment-7273 savia Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:14:23 +0000 #comment-7273 Thanks for stopping by my blog, Ariel. Weight loss is one of those things that really touches a chord with people - it's intensely private and public at the same time and everyone seems to want to "weigh in" on the topic. Keep your chin up ;) Thanks for stopping by my blog, Ariel. Weight loss is one of those things that really touches a chord with people - it’s intensely private and public at the same time and everyone seems to want to “weigh in” on the topic. Keep your chin up ;)

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