Dammit! I'm A Feminist, Not A Computophile!
I am/was up for 4, count 'em, 4, Feminist Awards over at CreativeRevolution and I've got a badge to prove it except I don't know how to download it.
Now, most women I know who blog, also know how to set up blogs and download images and upscan original art and all that fancy stuff related to modern blogging - but I have a website manager who designed my site and I don't know the first thing about anything related to computers except wordprocessing.
So, the problem is, do I learn how to do all the fancy stuff, thus rendering him somewhat superfluous AND using up writing time for which I'm already not paid, to do yet more blog-related work? OR do I let him continue managing my site, gratis, even though he sincerely believes that the reason I can't do it is because I'm a woman and he's a male chauvinist pig?
Le sigh. It'd be a bit hypocritical for me to learn how to do the fancy stuff, too, I think, because, while learning how to type has earned me all my money to date, it has also destroyed all my professional self-worth and is the reason why I seek validation through blogging - a non-paying pursuit with absolutely no employment future.
None of which advances the cause of Feminism, I don't think. Or does it? I dunno, I'm not a very good judge of what advances causes anymore. I have the leisure time to do the blogging, I guess, and it's the blogging that gives me a voice I wouldn't otherwise have by disseminating my views to others.
But money makes the world go 'round, too, doesn't it.
Unless, maybe that's what the mainstream media is so frightened of when it comes to blogging, that money has no real influence on opinion in the blogosphere, that with money taken out of the equation, people will write what they actually believe.
Fortunately, my webmaster doesn't read my entries. He just likes dicking around with the website.
