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Posted by Raven on July 20th, 2006
Why do we blog? Everyone has a different reason and that’s what makes this so fun. As I’ve said before, blogging is also a hobby for some and work for others. Those of us who take this too serisouly get burnt. Some have put a lot of effort into building their readership and get little recognition for their work. This is TOO bad because these folks have a lot of really good things to say.
Being a woman in this blogospere can be interesting too. Women get attacked more earnestly in the comments sections of their blogs; we recieve more hate emails; we attach ourselves to friends we trust and we count on them for support and advice…some women bloggers call the men in to defend them when things get tough. Many of us have been asked out on dates, been proposed to, been asked to send pictures of ourselves without clothes on and so on. Some of us feel like we have to work a lot harder to be taken seriously. Others feel they have to pretend to be something they are not. And others are using the latest trends to shamelessly promote themselves in ways that mimic soft pRon.
I want to speak of one of these trends being spoken of lately. VBlogs- video posts are popping up all over. This is a great way to speak to readers instead of expecting them to sit and read. The VPosts are quicker and not as time consuming as reading…there appears to be enough interest in this that it could and perhaps should not be called BLOGGING anymore. They shoud be in their own separate category. Why? Because some women are using them to exploit themselves in ways that are shameful and just disgusting.
It’s very discouraging to work so hard at finding things we hold to high passion and write about: Research, linking, trackbacking…
only to get a small audience to see this come to life. While others put on a lot of makeup to cover wrinkles and age spots, dress up provocatively and allow their boobs to show through- turn on the video and talk breathlessly- and they are an INSTANT success. Certain women bloggers have stooped to this level and it’s very disheartening. It makes the rest of stand back and ask-
IS THIS WHAT IT TAKES to be SUCCESSFUL?
If so, then I guess most of us will never reach that level because most of us have self respect. And confidence. We work dillengently at what we do. We chose to do this the old fashioned way- researching, writing, linking and trackbacking. Rather than staging scenes of ourselves that do nothing but degrade us and offer bored old men something to go jerk off to as he’s watching. I’m telling it like it is here and I’ve never been known to NOT be blunt.
I highly doubt the women VBloggers (vaGina Bloggers) will ever read this and that’s Ok. I’m not good enough for them and you know what, I’m proud of that. I don’t need to do those things…Those who are important to me have seen my picture, have spoken with me on my phone and have my respect and friendship. My Cotillion sisters are the best and brightest women bloggers; my friends of South Park Republicans are the very BEST people I know in this world of blogging.
As Linda says:
Now, there is the new world of vlogging, video posts, where instead of writing about a subject, you video yourself talking about it. And the morons have discovered their future in what can only be called “boudoir blogging,” posting videos of themselves with background music, in skin tight, skimpy clothing with lots of cleavage and pouty red lips. The videos are supposed to voice an opinion on currents events, except, the message is lost behind the music, the dancing and the tits and ass.
I can’t be bothered with that shit, there’s a war going on! We have to keep the democrats from raising taxes, cutting and running, and we have to keep them from turning this country into a nanny state. We have to keep the liberals from erasing God from our culture and from “PC’ing us into submission to islam. We have to support our troops and save the world. Cleavage has nothing to do with it.
Well said!
July 20th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
I know exactly what you mean. I get tired of people asking for pictures of me with no clothes on.. I send them a few to scare them away.
The whole idea is about what is written. I am not the greatest writer in the world but I like to express my opinion and I hope it stimulates thought.
That is how I feel about female bloggers. I read what they write and I don’t care what they look like. It is what is between their ears (really all bloggers but the topic was women) that matters to me.
I read what you write hear for the same reason I read Improper, I like what you write and how you write it. The fact that the blogs are conservative fits in there as well…..
July 20th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Excellent post Raven.
July 20th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
No its not blogging, its an entirely different medium, more oriented toward entertainment. Unfortunately some people like to attract attention using the most pathetic means.
July 20th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Video blogging is stupid but that’s not why no one reads your site Raven.
Also, stop pretending you’re doing a bunch of hard work and research when all you really do is link to newsmax or whatever and write your rather caustic opinions below a blockquote. That’s not research and you’re not a journalist.
July 20th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Also, I almost guarantee you no one is jerking off to Atlas shrugs or whatever. Her videos would make a steel cock go limp.
July 20th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Thank you BD. It’s refreshing to know that some aren’t into this new form of “blogging” and it’s great to know some come here to see what is being written about.
Timmah, I didn’t say that I don’t get readers you ass.
I get plenty of hits every day not counting the hundred or so from YOU. I never said I was a journalist- to the contrary I am merely a blogger who finds articles and links..with a little of my own commentary. That’s how I blog, like it or not.
(YOu obviously do or you wouldn’t keep coming back!)
It is hard work though, for others who do put in a lot of time and effort.
AND, LOL!!!! what makes you think this is about AS?
It is and I find it hilarious what you say.
July 20th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Yeah, but you seem to be saying that you work so hard doing what you do, only to have some video blogging hussy steal the show. This isn’t hard work, especially your style of blogging, it requires no research, no eloquence and no need to leave the house to do it. Just reminding you that all this isn’t that important.
As for me constantly coming back, I have this weird thing where I like examining the motives and words of the functionally insane. And trust me, I’ve seen a few cesspools, but you guys really bring the crazy. Not only that, but I pretty consistantly own the topics here, any objective reader should see that I win the debate nearly all the time. Usually it ends when one of you calls me a name for bringing up a point, and then stops responding to me. The only one here even remotely capable of rational debate is Seth, I surely disagree with nearly everything he says, but at least I respect his positions.
For instance you didn’t even bother to explain to me why you were against funding experiments on embryos that will be discarded anyway, your opinions seem to be arbitrarily chosen. You seem like a follower to me.
As for AS, well, just look at her. It’s like someone gave the crazy bag lady that yells at people outside the grocery store a video camera. She looks like a cracked out old ex model that’s had way too much surgery, puts on way too much makeup and is forcing her children to be of her point of view instead of allowing them to develop their own. It’s pretty damaging mothering, even at that early stage of development.
All in all she’s creepy as fuck. I wouldn’t fuck her with a stolen hobo’s dick on a ten foot pole, and I suspect most men feel the same way. Then again I’ve never met a guy that was into the Janice Dickinson look.
July 20th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
OK Timmah whatever.
You haven’t read everything I write here. Hardly. There are alot of long posts about work and my patients and things like that…my life and things I’ve been through.
July 20th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Love your post Raven! You said it better then I could and a big thank you!!!!
July 20th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
Yeah, I might not comment on them, but I’ve read them. I don’t comment on personal stories often but if you really want to know my opinion on those too, I think they’re funny because they betray your remarkably simplistic worldview, and they demonstrate your incapacity to process subtlety and nuance.
This is going to sound harsh, but nothing on this site is worth reading, save for the irony value. That it has in spades.
July 20th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Timmah should go find a job, then he wouldn’t spend so much time reading sites he doesn’t think are worth reading.
What an ID 10 T.
July 20th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
Actually I’m at my job. It’s my last day today, so I’m surfing the internet.
But thanks for sticking to the “If I don’t like what he said, insult him, HURRRRRR” idea. It seems to work with everyone else here.
July 20th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Timmah don’t come here anymore. You’ve pissed me off one time too many now. You hate my site and everything I write here, you admit that just about everytime you come here. I don’t need to hear your insults anymore.
When you say I have nothing of value here- so go away then. I mean it.
July 20th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Ok, just as long as you realize that your site is a meagre collection of shitty commentary and genocidal ideas.
I’m getting tired of kicking your ass all over the page in debate anyway, and now that today is my last day as IT guy, I won’t have alot of free time to keep proving you wrong on everything.
Not that it wasn’t fun while it lasted.
July 20th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Sorry, Timmah, I didn’t realize that anyone had a job that allowed them to surf all the time, that is why I assummed you were not employed.
I did not call you any names, though!
July 20th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Ah, Timmah420, frequent commenter at Sadly, No! right? Listen: I get that S,N! mocks this site a good deal. I get that you don’t agree with Raven politically. I get that you find fault with the quality of her writing.
But this post ain’t got shit to do with you or with politics, and you need to step off. You’re just being a pathetic little shit-stirrer with your remarks here, and that’s before we even attempt to break down what kind of head case spends his time commenting at a site expressly for the purpose of telling the site owner how shitty it is.
Go. Go find something else to do with your time. You want to disagree with Raven politically, then I guess so long as she suffers you to do it here you’re welcome to. You want to suggest ways she could improve her game, then I guess so long as she suffers you to do it here you can do that too. But you will STEP THE FUCK OFF shit that is none of your business, and women’s issues online are none of your fucking business.
Go. Go before I fucking own you, punk.
July 20th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Timmmah can go fuck himself. No one else will that’s for sure. He’s banned from this site for good.
July 20th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Ilyka! *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* :mrgreen:
There’s nothing I could possibly add to that!
Raven, you nailed it. Timmah420 (420? WTF are you, 16?) couldn’t possibly understand it, and even if he did he’d still find a reason to take a shit in the comments.
Back to the post:
And you know what? Appearances are just temporary anyway. I would be sick, grossed out, if my readers were there because they were just waiting for pictures or “vlogs” instead of being there because they enjoy the company. There’s a long(ish) history of internet “dating” and marriages because people actually get to KNOW one another first, rather than it being all about the physical aspects, and from what I’ve seen from others, that seems to work better. Blogging is sorta like that in the persona sense–you know your readers and the writers and you make friends with some of them because you have similar interests. I don’t want dumbasses hanging around at my blog, but that’s the kind of people you get when the attraction is stupid pictures and video of yourself. Just look at the comments at some of the vlogs on the internets–it’s all “Wow, you’re a babe, drool drool…,” never stuff discussing the actual TOPIC.
And I can’t tell you how pissed off I get when I read some male “big blogger” saying “If you’re a reasonably good-looking woman, post pictures. You’ll get more traffic,” or “hey, you should post pics of yourself.” Fuck that shit. Buncha fuckin’ neanderthals. Go find a pr0n site.
July 20th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
On behalf of Canada (and the first Prime Minister with any chutzpah since WWII), I wish to apologize for Timmah. It’s not his fault. He lives in BC – too many mushrooms, too much pot, and still lives with mom (or at least she pays his bills). Sad thing is, when he finally decides to get a job and stick with it, he’ll probably end up here in Toronto, being my neighbor and pissing me off with his Gwar.
RG
July 21st, 2006 at 12:25 am
Timmah likes to dish it out but he can’t take it. He’s like a man whose emasculated at work so he comes home and beats his wife and kicks the dog.
So he insults Raven visciously in every single comment all the while claiming anyone disagreeing with him are either stupid or calling him names.
He obviously loves your site and probably secretly has a thang for you. Otherwise, he wouldn’t come here so often to read what you write.
He obviously feels inferior to you Raven, he’s trying to bring you down so he can feel better about himself.
He’s very sad really.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:31 am
I agree with Beth C. on this completely. It is actually repulsive to me to think of some dick-head reading my blog just looking for a photo.
If they want a date – there are plenty out there and it ain’t moi!
What would they do if we just went to their sites and ignored their posts and just started posting comments like ‘hey babe, your are HOT’. LOLOLOL
They WOULD NOT react like WE do.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:37 am
The more I think about it the funnier that is to me!! Maybe it’s the mood I’m in. But I think any man who is REASONABLY hot should post a pic of himself to increase his blog traffic.
I’d like to see more of the guys posting vlogs with some sexy dancing and singing their posts karaoke style (badly) while shakin’ their boo-days.
I want to see BIG DOG in a THONG!!!!!
You go, Raven! You are so right!
You have a life and something to say. Timmmie-boy is jealous and obviously does not have a thing to do and hates himself for it – so he runs around putting other ppl down who he knows are better than him. He just wishes men liked him as well as they do you.
8)
July 21st, 2006 at 12:38 am
sorry I’ve hogged the comments – I’ll be quite now :?
July 21st, 2006 at 2:07 am
His name means “I smoke dope and I’m a Tard”? His blog is a rehash of all the conspiracy theories tossed in the trash as too looney by Kos and the Insane Klown Possee? And he wants to criticize *you*?
Well, I guess he *is* loaded. …and Todded.
oh — and **gone**
*clap*clap*clap*
July 23rd, 2006 at 8:22 pm
Gender Matters
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the importance of gender in the blogsphere. You missed the discussion? Well, it’s around.