This post has been delayed too much, and so has the question I wanted to think aloud over in the previous post. The title would be a giveaway, yet, my question arose from something more specific, and this is what it was...just what is the deal with the "young and rebellious" image of blogs written by female authors in blogosphere? My point is, think a little, and you'd suddenly find that a lot of blogs written by women, especially the more popular ones, seem to either fit or endorse or trying-hard-to-fit the image of a young and rebellious blog, or if not that, at least a modern, young, rebellious women author.
This is by no means a general statement or an allegation, but this is a feeling I can't stop getting whenever I'm randomly blog-hopping. It maybe in the look or the blog or in the author's attitude, in the words chosen or in the response evoked by the readers. This element is almost unmistakable. An element of so-called progressiveness and rebellion. An element of out-of-the normal individuality (maybe, simply because of the fact that the normal of our world does not allow for individual expression of themselves by women, more or less) that is either inherent, or the author is trying very very hard to portray. Almost as a matter of pride. In fact, some of the blogs I've come across sometime while browsing randomly are so loudly and promiscuously feminine that the insensitivity in the name of free expression is scary, and I'm afraid may be a reason why the modern rebellious women is stereotyped (so wrongly) with a negative connotation very often. I don't get the point behind all the noise, and sometimes, all the sensuality.
I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing. In fact, I won't be surprised if someone came and told me that this blog also somehow fell into the same category. I'm just exclaiming at something I can't fail to notice. Some of the more read blogs have a larger element of this kind of a modern, rebellious, confessional streak in them, and somehow, it happens with the female authors all the time and less (but definitely does happen) with the men.
Is that some kind of a division in blog world? Does this world of apparent anarchy and freedom also have some kind of, possibly biased for or against, rules of its own? One of my friends once argued that all female blogs enjoy more readership than male ones, or to be more precise, he said that if your readers know you're a female, you'd get more readership if you were writing in complete neutrality and anonymity. I gave him a hundred counter examples at that moment, but maybe, partially, he was right in a way. And if there is such kind of a "favor", I don't like it! I mean, let's be fair, (and I may be offending a few feminists here) you're born either a man or a woman, entirely independent of your choice or anybody's control. It's just normal and natural. What is there to be proud of, or ashamed of, about your sexuality? You're neither less nor more because you're a woman, or in this case, a woman who blogs. But that's only what I think.
P.S. If you're bursting with anger at me for my remarks about women, blast me for sure, but before that read this, just to chill you a little (it's good news) :P If you're a man, irrespective of what you think about this post, go through that link too, because I want to say Yey! :P
This is by no means a general statement or an allegation, but this is a feeling I can't stop getting whenever I'm randomly blog-hopping. It maybe in the look or the blog or in the author's attitude, in the words chosen or in the response evoked by the readers. This element is almost unmistakable. An element of so-called progressiveness and rebellion. An element of out-of-the normal individuality (maybe, simply because of the fact that the normal of our world does not allow for individual expression of themselves by women, more or less) that is either inherent, or the author is trying very very hard to portray. Almost as a matter of pride. In fact, some of the blogs I've come across sometime while browsing randomly are so loudly and promiscuously feminine that the insensitivity in the name of free expression is scary, and I'm afraid may be a reason why the modern rebellious women is stereotyped (so wrongly) with a negative connotation very often. I don't get the point behind all the noise, and sometimes, all the sensuality.
I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing. In fact, I won't be surprised if someone came and told me that this blog also somehow fell into the same category. I'm just exclaiming at something I can't fail to notice. Some of the more read blogs have a larger element of this kind of a modern, rebellious, confessional streak in them, and somehow, it happens with the female authors all the time and less (but definitely does happen) with the men.
Is that some kind of a division in blog world? Does this world of apparent anarchy and freedom also have some kind of, possibly biased for or against, rules of its own? One of my friends once argued that all female blogs enjoy more readership than male ones, or to be more precise, he said that if your readers know you're a female, you'd get more readership if you were writing in complete neutrality and anonymity. I gave him a hundred counter examples at that moment, but maybe, partially, he was right in a way. And if there is such kind of a "favor", I don't like it! I mean, let's be fair, (and I may be offending a few feminists here) you're born either a man or a woman, entirely independent of your choice or anybody's control. It's just normal and natural. What is there to be proud of, or ashamed of, about your sexuality? You're neither less nor more because you're a woman, or in this case, a woman who blogs. But that's only what I think.
P.S. If you're bursting with anger at me for my remarks about women, blast me for sure, but before that read this, just to chill you a little (it's good news) :P If you're a man, irrespective of what you think about this post, go through that link too, because I want to say Yey! :P
11 comments:
You might be taking the incorrect direction of causality. Could it be the case that only young and rebellious women blog?
May be, what Anand is saying is true.
And, yaaayiii!!!! :-D
Good observation. And thanks for saying it. I don't think a guy could get away so easily saying that :P
No no no no no no no.... I've driven enough to absolutely disagree with that survey.. no waaay :P
hmmm...
here i would like to ask you a certain question, why do women like to fit into that category of young, rebellious writers?
why do they like writing what they write?
is it a fad? a style statement? a psychological necessity? what drives one to resort to getting attention through certain means?
why a thing is done in a particular fashion? are these writers abiding by norms or is it that this is what women are and have always been, they are just expressing themselves in this manner? the issue is far more complicated than what u think it is.
What really have you written against women in this post that you thought somebody would be bursting with anger? Is young offensive, or rebellious offensive, or trying-hard-to-fit that image offensive?
And why is this that every rebellion of this kind still uses males for comparison. It's like once it's proven that men are dogs (and it's not very hard to prove it, I might add), it simply puts women at a somewhat higher? I'd love to read a purely feminine post which is young and rebellious without mentioning anything male, so that I can think of femininity as something on its own.
I would only like to add that men aloso write rebellious blogs, and not to hurt any one but women do need to move out of this image of theirs where they bash men most of the times!! and as far as the survey is concerned may be there's some sample error in it :)
[i]just to chill you a little (it's good news) :P If you're a man, irrespective of what you think about this post, go through that link too, because I want to say Yey! :P[/i]
Hahahahahaha.
[anand]
Woah...well, that would be an extreme assumption in any case, I think. Maybe my sample set has more of them, but still, I'm sure loads of them appear way more introvertish n "docile" in person
[relaistic me]
Hmm...pata nahi
:)
[munnu]
Hehe...pata nahi, just a feeling. may or may nt be right.
[rohanjain]
:P
Ok, maybe they are more careful for "themselves" n for their own security? :P
[ocean mirages]
Valid "certain" quesion....a thought that was at the heart of wat went into this post, n i cant answer any of it without indulging in psycho analysis but that wd add to the existing list of long assumptions...
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