Comments on: On compartments, fuck-ups, and more precious voices leaving the blogosphere

By: Hugo Schwyzer

Hugo Schwyzer — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:06:33 +0000

Here’s to subsisting on stubbornness, Amanda, I hear ya!

I’m with you in believing that this project, this work that is blogging, does have an impact, if only a much smaller one than we wish — and often at a much higher cost.

By: Amanda Marcotte

Amanda Marcotte — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:20:10 +0000

Well, I won’t say that the immense pressure hasn’t made me rethink blogging, but then I remember how that would make a lot of assholes happy, and get back to it. That and looking forward to prepping my blog for the eventual return of Jesse Taylor helps. But I think that subsisting on stubbornness isn’t the worst thing in the world, and wish that people who shut down their blogs would reconsider.

By: Hugo Schwyzer

Hugo Schwyzer — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:16:49 +0000

Perhaps unintentionally, your focus on being able to deal with pain (a topic of definite interest for all of us who struggle with faith and sobriety) makes it seem as if other bloggers who have shut down this month have done so primarily because their feelings have been hurt. And I don’t think that’s the case at all.

Prefer, that’s definitely unintentional. When I think about the reasons I would want to quit blogging, there are many: that I’m doing more harm than good, that no one cares or is reading, and above all, that I’m getting hurt. Watching other folks leave blogging for myriad reasons leads me to contemplate the reasons why I too would consider bowing out, and of course, my reasons might well be different.

By: Priviledged Male

Priviledged Male — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:01:00 +0000

Wow.

MRA’s will be celebrating in the streets. Beer and misogyny for everyone.

And to think, all it took was a small herd of WOC and WOC allies to start shutting down Feminist voices.

If I didn’t know better…… No, even MRA’s couldn’t come up with stuff like this.

Get some perspective Hugo. Don’t quit. I enjoy your blog.

By: prefer not to say

prefer not to say — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:58:23 +0000

Hmmmm. Perhaps unintentionally, your focus on being able to deal with pain (a topic of definite interest for all of us who struggle with faith and sobriety) makes it seem as if other bloggers who have shut down this month have done so primarily because their feelings have been hurt. And I don’t think that’s the case at all.

By: Luis

Luis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:19:55 +0000

Hugo, come on. It’s more than a stretch to suggest that learning how to compartmentalize is part of male privilege. I can think of hundreds or thousands of things that are part of male privilege, and that sure ain’t one of ‘em. I can’t think how there are things about being female that block women from learning how to do that (or, in other words, denies them access to that ‘privilege’).

You follow that comment up, more sensibly, with a plausible description of how being strongly punished for not compartmentalizing forms a part of the ‘gender policing‘ facet of socialization for many (or most) males in our society. (Certainly I would pick most of the same words you do, were I to describe my own experience here).