Sep 9
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Dawn is mad at us males for being sexist towards female bloggers. What a load of…. er. I don’t care the sex of whomever I blog-roll; truth be told in the early days it was mostly female ones. (Hawkgirl, Solent, Meryl, Live from the WTC, Ye Olde Blog, Samizdata (W/female bloggers, including the one I pinched for this blog.) I find it offensive that you accuse us of being sexist. Have you ever considered the fact that there are more bloggers who are male than are female? So what if some people don’t link to you; you are not their style. There are people I don’t link to because I think they aren’t worth linking to, not because they are female or male, gay or straight, black or white. Crying sexism comes across as whingeing for hits. (Something I did to good affect early in my blog career. but I admit it was whingeing to get hits.) So people don’t like your posts; what the hell does the fact you are female have to do with it? Write what you want and take the consequences. Think of it as a fence; get over it.
NB: For more on this exchange and to see how bitchy it has gotten check out the comments for MB’s post. Must be something in the air, first Claire at the British Blogger Bash and now this.
I just got this lovely email from Dawn.
From: “Dawn Olsen”
Date: Tue Sep 10, 2002 12:04:22 AM Europe/London
To: andr...@mac.com
Is everyone at your blog a complete jerk?
whatever – you guys are troll looking for traffic – you deserve none.
- It continues with nastier and nastier emails. She is now personally attacking both me and Mommabear. I pressed send twice opps.
“Was your missive so great I needed to receive it twice? Good for you, may you and Andrew live a long happy life together. You are made for each other. And you are wrong, you are a troll – in every sense of the word. Maybe you are the troll who I have been fighting with? You seem to be about that intelligent.”
My response:
What the hell is your problem? I don’t agree with your assertion, so I am a troll? I criticise your assertion and you launch personal attacks on MB and I? And you call me stupid?
You are doing more harm to women bloggers with each idiotic utterance than you can imagine. If we disagree you call me a troll how very very sad. Grow up.
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Nice to know that she appreciates differing opinions. How pathetic.
