We all live in a Capital I
This blog, she is all about the personal pronouns, because I love them, oh how I love them. Due to my incredible narcissism, of course. It's all about me. Oddly enough, that's because this is MY blog, and I write about what I want. Whenever I want. I don't get paid for the privelege of nattering on about my precarious mental health, my fascinating excursions into the world of work, my endlessly wonderful and amusing dog, or my odd predilection for yarn.
This blog is not some extension of Kate-as-journalist. (Kate as journalist is getting quite enough extending right now as it is.)
This is me doing fuck-knows-what because I essentially like the sound (metaphorically) of my own voice. Because in blogging I have found a community of writers whose company I enjoy in this space so much that I feel bereft when I cannot read their words. Because I have found myself included in circles with women I respect and admire, whose lives are not delineated by the shape of a culture which seems to find us laughable at best and at worst despises us. Because I have met so many decent people with so many interesting things to say that I won't be giving up this conversation even if I feel like I'm mostly talking to myself.
I do it because I can.
Also, I am not even going to touch the misogyny of a certain blogger's pronouncements, other than to say there's a reason why I like my little female ghetto (with token blokes) corner of the blogosphere, where the air is mostly fresh and clean and the people are friendly, polite and always extremely fascinating.
Anyway, if you're ever looking for me, you know I'll be here, polishing up my I.
GO KATE! I read the LP discussion and had the same reaction. IT'S A HOBBY FOR FUCK'S SAKE. It's something most of us do for pleasure, for fun, not because we're getting paid for it. And we can do whatever the fuck we want, including talking about ourselves, if we so choose. Others can read it or not, it's their choice. Please continue to use lots of 'I' posts. I, for one, enjoy them immensely.
Posted by: Ariel | January 18, 2007 at 08:20 PM
Take that, Timothy B!
Posted by: Rob | January 18, 2007 at 08:29 PM
Ariel, it's mainly because of TB's choice of target -- being the highly personal and very sad post and immensely well-written post about &Duck's miscarriage. Who I consider a 'friend', not that we've ever met. The whole thing made me so angry.
Rob, I'm sure TB is quaking in his boots.
Posted by: Kate | January 18, 2007 at 08:52 PM
I. I. I. I. I.
love you.
And I. I. I. I. I.
love your work.
You cool sista you.
Posted by: lynn white | January 18, 2007 at 09:11 PM
Just don't complain about anything, because then you will not even have the right to express your opinion on your own site...
Posted by: Cristy | January 19, 2007 at 07:11 AM
I really appreciate how you can put feelings into words in such a wonderful way. I think perhaps women like yourself and Ducky, and Crazybrave and Pav Cat (and all the others too numerous to name) scare a certain type of man who like their women compliant and silent. To those men I suggest purchasing a blow up doll. Real women have brains and use them. This is not a slur on all men, just those who blog nasty things about women.
Posted by: Mindy | January 19, 2007 at 07:26 AM
Hey Mindy, I'm out of Alice nd back to Canberra too. The Todd flowed the day before I left. That made four times I've seen it.
Posted by: Rob | January 19, 2007 at 08:34 AM
Just posted a couple of thoughts on LP about the whole first-person pronoun thingo. Blair making fun of Ampersand Duck's post ticked me off, too.
Posted by: TimT | January 19, 2007 at 10:36 AM
That's brilliant, Kate -- I'm going to send it to a friend who doesn't get blogging and is bemused by my passion for it. If this doesn't work, nothing will.
Posted by: Pavlov's Cat | January 19, 2007 at 11:34 AM
Love yer, Kate. And hey, your blog may be just a kind of bot for cranking out "vain little diary items", but at least you haven't named it after yourself!!!!
Posted by: Laura | January 19, 2007 at 01:07 PM
Hooray! I love it. And I love all of our 'I's. And you've described exactly what I like about blogging. Plus used my favouritest Sesame Street clip. You're a winning chick.
Posted by: ampersand duck | January 19, 2007 at 01:32 PM
I second ampersand duck. That's a great encapsulation of what I enjoy about blogging.
Posted by: Jennine | January 19, 2007 at 02:46 PM
Women are the society the live in's social property. It is very transgressive not to diffuse your energies working towards males feeling better about themselves.
Posted by: scratchy888 | January 19, 2007 at 03:51 PM
Yes, the choice of target was both disgusting and mystifying.
Posted by: Ariel | January 19, 2007 at 04:24 PM
Yay Kate and pfft to the nay-sayers. Also, look at it this way - you'll never be allowed to use the word "I" as a journalist, unless, of course, you become a columnist. Then I belive that you're allowed one I per column ;)
Posted by: redcap | January 21, 2007 at 01:20 PM
Thankyouthankyouthankyou.
Posted by: Georg Hibberd | January 21, 2007 at 02:17 PM