Friday, December 13, 2002

Didn't There Used to Be Something Else Here? I think I have grown too comfortable blurting my thoughts out to strangers. It's a truism that one often sheds one's manners with one's identity when taking up the relative anonymity provided by the Web. Manners erode further when one loses track of the fact that even though communication over the Web is electronic and undirected, one is still communicating with other people. I have fallen prey to this, and I would like to take this chance to apologize to uberchick and especially the Reverse Cowgirl for the entry that was here comparing their relative coolness. I'm especially disappointed in myself for using appearance and sexual proclivities as the bases for that comparison (though I do stand by my assertion that New York is cooler than Los Angeles), as no one (myself in particular) should ever judge another in those ways. Let me try to get this right and be sufficiently polite henceforth. Sorry again, and you're both very cool. Perhaps my mother was right. 7:39:51 PM     What do you think? ()

Everyone Tired of the Color-Line Yet? Brad calls for a political house-cleaning, casting out all of the racists from positions of power. I couldn't agree more. In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois predicted that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." I would prefer that some clever pundit 98 years hence not be able to say that Du Bois's prediction applied equally well to the Twenty-First Century. 7:05:43 PM     What do you think? ()

Have I Always Been Elitist? In an attempt to get a broader view of my emotional state, I asked my mother if she remembered any of this about me from my youth. She says that throughout my childhood, she remembers: ...the sparseness of social interaction, perhaps somewhat of a lack of interest in doing so. Which I assumed was connected to a sort of scorn for your peers' values. I'm trying to remember that tow-headed five-year-old first discerning and then scorning the values of potential playmates. 7:58:42 AM     What do you think? ()

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