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The poke it, you own it thingie is very interesting imho, because it has revealed this whole sub-culture of “feminists” who have a totally different blogging experience from me.

Now commenter Tlacloc at pandagon whips out this weird idea;

There are 57 responses to this thread alone. Via google I find close to 16000 sites that are found by looking for “you poke it you own it” and either ‘feminist’ or ‘feminism.’

16000.

Let’s conservatively say that an avergae of 15 minutes was spent on each. There’s 4000 man hours that might have been used a bit more productively. It adds up fast, huh?

Or to put it into terms of important feminist “man” hours (AKA fellatio), that’s 48000 five minute blowjobs! 48000 quick blowjobs wasted for want of bloggers commenting about a shitty ad campaign rather than sucking dick!

Blogging about the miller horse piss campaign is surely the worst thing since the holocaust! /not at all serious hyperbole

Now this whole idea of “wasted ‘man’ hours” idea seems odd indeed to me, as I generally don’t blog in a manner that would make me start thinking about “man” hours, either wasted or used constructively, even when I haven’t blogged for a day or two and I’m searching for something to blog about, I don’t see something and say “well that’ll do, let’s put a feminist spin on a critique of that because I have to blog about something goddammit”, I search until something sparks what is for me an interesting line of reasoning, thought or whatever. Or I drink heavily and bad mouth jeff dolgstein.

And when I say “sparks”, I mean like a lightning bolt (not to be confused with coming like a firecracker), I’ll be looking through a conservative website and I’ll see also sorts of crap, or I’ll be reading better bloggers blog something, but then I’ll come across something that someone else has missed and *Bam*, a thought will occur, a new way to view something will appear, or two previously unconnected ideas will connect via this new one. When this happens of course, for me at any rate, I’ll have the basic outline for the post, the main point I want to get across, how I want to approach it (sarcastic? satirical? What sort of additional media shall I use, if at all?), the difficulty for me is generally that I suck at conclusions, too much time spent commenting has rather left me prone to rambling along stream of conciousness rants that meander gradually away from any pointiency to what I was originally talking about, so the idea of actually stopping the post, and in fact concluding (rather than argueing and waiting for a response) is still taking some getting used to.

But what that means is that the majority of the post has been written already in my head, it’s just a matter of putting it to html then, and the thing is that the only way to get it out of your head after that initial lightning bolt is to write it out, otherwise it just floats about, possibly dislodging one of the other things you’ve not written down yet (like the plot and background for the various novels that I’ve got bouncing around my head because I can’t write them down fast enough).

We don’t lose vital “man” hours of feminist activism writing blog posts critiqueing and ridiculing the already quite ridiculous You Poke It, You Own It campaign, they are in our heads already, unleashed into out thoughts and conciousness against our wills and we can either write the damn things out, or we can hold it in and get the mental equivalent of a urinary infection, and writing it doesn’t stop us writing other stuff, or doing other stuff.

Quite the contrary in fact, as getting the “insignificant” idea written down helps keep the kicking beast (courtesy of Escape Key, check out “Mal’s song”, a very good firefly tribute) at bay for while, and makes it so much easier to think about something else.

So no, blogging about something tends to neither exclude nor hinder you from writing about other things that a random commenter or reader may consider more important, and the whole idea of “wasted man power” makes no sense, even if a total of 15 minutes per feminist was an actual waste of valuble time, after all, what the hell can a feminist really do in 15 minutes?

Okay okay, three five minute blowjobs obviously, but apart from that…

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