For some reason a switch flipped in my head over the last week or so

[rivenwanderer]

I left a comment about gender inequality on the Make magazine blog! I don't know if I worded it perfectly, but. And I don't know that I would've felt brave enough to do that a few weeks ago. I've also been commenting on the latest RaceFail posts--judiciously, for the most part, trying to aim for the low-hanging fruit 101-level derailing/naive stuff that I can debunk relatively easily. I don't know. I think that the voice in my head that says that talking about serious ideas wasn't something for me to do has quieted down a bit. I think that a big part of it was signing up here--it just kicked me out of a rut that'd been getting narrower and narrower. So, um, yay?

I REALLY should be asleep right now, but there are things I want to make posts about in the future. They are All About Me, but that's one of the things a journal is for, eh?

Things to write about:

-Oh Hai, my very-me-specific worldviews and where I think some of them are from (the West, living in several places growing up, the Forest Service, other stuff)
-inventory of the crafty things I have tried, liked, want to try, am good at, am terrible at, etc.
-thoughts on the "I'm not a Gamer, but I play some games, I'm not a Reader, but I read some stuff" thing that's in my head
-being a jack-of-all-trades, thinking about how to feel multifaceted instead of fragmented/scattered

Comments

[talia_et_alia]

I echo, like, this entire entry (except that I'm still too shy to actually comment much, but I am much closer to fixing it!). In my way, though, not your way :) I also had a list of "entries I should make" but I think I lost it.

[melannen]

I totally agree with your first paragraph - I feel like suddenly now that I'm on Dreamwidth I'm talking about all these things I didn't before. I like it! Only I'm a bit afraid that Dreamwidth is getting this sort of insular activist culture that will turn off people who don't yet understand it.

[rivenwanderer]

Yeah, I don't know. I guess that I don't truly believe that one service will have a single culture, so that doesn't worry me too much. And for myself, I'm going to keep my LJ around because I do still want to talk to people who are politically dissimilar to me. (Still need to figure out how much crossposting to do and whether to bother with opt-in/opt-out filters if so).

[talia_et_alia]

I've seen people get turned off by the statement "Dreamwidth is an online home for creative people of all types.", claiming it's pretentious, whereas it reads to me as "hi, really inclusive here." Primarily I had worried about DW having a [too-]large fannish population, like JF but shinier, and the fan-activist spectrum certainly seems well-represented right now. But I think that since DW is not aiming to be all things to all people (and, notably, aims to stay small-ish), I think the self-selection will work to everyone's favour.