heading to a “blog party” tonight I guess
ha. ha ha. ha ha ha.
i'm maura johnston. i edit maura magazine and write all over the place.
“Most of it seems so meaningless to me,” she says. “We know who’s writing this—the real question is, who’s reading it?”
Anonymous asked: What blogs do you like that no one else likes?
maura.tumblr.com? HAHAHA JK
But for someone to decry institutional sexism yet refer to a woman they don’t like who’s a member of said institution as a ‘blow up doll’… that’s kind of, well, sexist, no? And what if that person also apparently sounds like a “blonde joke” (but who doesn’t look like one) who is “putting her breasts up against [a man’s] back and purring” when she speaks? Sexist too?
(Yes, this was someone talking about me. Actually three pseudonymous people, because I guess they figure it’s easy to go for the jugular as a tag team? Oh hackery! Oh Mean Girls-ness! I’m all for substantive critiques of my opinions but when said criticisms amount to a bunch of self-professed so-called “progressives” sniping about how my voice sounds like it belongs to a Valley Girl, well, I have to wonder just what personal prejudices these people haven’t really examined all that hard yet. Also if they’ve ever done radio before, too.)