It does feel different. I hope it doesn't feel different-bad.
I am reminded of the cyclical discussions of 'why don't women blog?', which are absurd because women do blog. Often what the people asking WDWB really mean is why don't women blog the way certain big name guys do, with charts and footnotes and abstract discussions of the issues du jour?
Instead many women who blog are blogging from the sense that the personal is political. Holding a position based on graphs and statistics may work for some people. But before I can agree whole-heartedly that the minimum wage is fine where it is I want to look past the graphs at some actual people. Actual people aren't as tidy as numbers lined up in tables, but if we are going to make decisions as a society that impact people let's have the moral fortitude to look them in the face. (Pardon me, I seem to be on a soapbox. My apologies to the choir for this impromptu sermon.)
You took a big issue and you not only put a human face on it, you put your face on it. And you did it in a very public forum. It's not just good writing (which your blog is a bastion of, but I digress), it was courageous writing.
I respect the hell out of you, in the event I haven't said so recently.
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I am reminded of the cyclical discussions of 'why don't women blog?', which are absurd because women do blog. Often what the people asking WDWB really mean is why don't women blog the way certain big name guys do, with charts and footnotes and abstract discussions of the issues du jour?
Instead many women who blog are blogging from the sense that the personal is political. Holding a position based on graphs and statistics may work for some people. But before I can agree whole-heartedly that the minimum wage is fine where it is I want to look past the graphs at some actual people. Actual people aren't as tidy as numbers lined up in tables, but if we are going to make decisions as a society that impact people let's have the moral fortitude to look them in the face. (Pardon me, I seem to be on a soapbox. My apologies to the choir for this impromptu sermon.)
You took a big issue and you not only put a human face on it, you put your face on it. And you did it in a very public forum. It's not just good writing (which your blog is a bastion of, but I digress), it was courageous writing.
I respect the hell out of you, in the event I haven't said so recently.