And that is exactly what my thoughts this morning have led me into, and why I’m not quite ready to post. I realized that a couple different ideas are finally beginning to coalesce into a picture, and I simply need more time to follow their trails to where they meet, basically somewhere in a forum on gender difference, writing, blogging and recognition. While I also realize that by this entry I am twice committing in the same day violations against one of the very sensible blogging rules of entering a “I’ll get back to you” post, as put forth by studies (and I must apologize both for not immediately being able to find the source to credit, and for Spinning’s sinning by pleading to writers out there to understand the much needed deadline as a motivational factor. Trumpets sound the ten-minute warning, and some of us are geared to snap to attention. It works for me.).
But I digress (didn’t you always want to write those words?). Not as a teaser, but as a thesis statement relaxed for blogging standards, there is an award being offered by Whizbang for the Best Log by a Female Writer. I wandered onto this subject last week on Misbehaving.net and my opinion at the time was in character, that there should be no need for segregation of writing by gender. However, I finally got the idea of checking out Whizbang and some of the finalists this morning, and in truth, I’m really more concerned that it does more damage in stereotyping than any movement towards equality could undo. While I would never consider Spinning a contender either for its content value or my own ambition, I must sincerely say that there are only a couple of the blogs up for voting that I would even consider bookmarking to check out as possible daily reading.
Please bear with me on this, I promise to get back with some forced intelligent insight shortly. I have decided to publish the previous post albeit unfinished in theory, just to move on towards the more pressing theme at hand.
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