Posts by Emma Hart
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Up Front: Staying In, in reply to Moz,
some anon bloggers make huge efforts to keep secrets, others are "well, my employer doesn't officially know"
Yeah, slightly frustrated now because one of the blogs I read did a great post after the outing of Brooke Magnanti about how much work it is to maintain an actually-secret identity, and I can't remember who or where it was. But keeping an identity literally and metaphorically firewalled from your real life takes enormous effort. Most of the pseudonymous bloggers I know are much more of the "open but hopefully ungoogleable secret" type. The defenses are made to pass casual scrutiny, and one of them is that people don't know to look.
I do have, on another site, a one-way secret identity. People who know that pseudonym know it's me, but there are less than half a dozen of them. Nobody else knows it exists.
Quite a number of people have seen me naked then in 3/4 profile fullscreen on my face, on the TV, but not made the connection to me as someone they know.
I had some interesting reactions to a particular photo of me going out on the public net. Mildly incredulous "Are you sure you don't mind?" Which boggled me a bit, because even if I wasn't okay with it generally, and I am, I am completely unrecognisable in it. The more tattoos the harder that gets, of course.
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Up Front: Staying In, in reply to Andre Alessi,
What I mean is that I don't think it would be right to call things posted under a pseudonym as less "real"
Yeah, I'm really conscious here of not wanting to sound like I'm dissing people who do write under pseudonyms. Clarisse's post is the best demonstration of the very good reasons for doing so: that and the posts I haven't written. This is just about why I've made my particular individual decision.
I think that sense of genuineness is stronger because people know that if I said something here that wasn't true, or was exaggerated or distorted, because people know who I am, someone would call me out on it. That makes me try even harder to be scrupulously fair.
And of course, LATE is one of the things I couldn't have done if I wrote pseyudonymously. I miss the stuff that isn't in that clip - particularly David talking about Colin Craig, but it does show the enormous amount of fun we had doing it.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Matthew Poole,
maybe that's this new-fangled English that breaks so many of the rules with which I was raised.
Fortunately, as I was saying to my partner during a rugby commentary the other day, English has lots of hit-points, and regenerates.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to nzlemming,
oooooooh, a palpable it.
All the best ones are.
Quite distinct from inplementing you.
Inplementation isn't really my strength. I'm all about the theory.
The worst part is I'm pretty sure you guys aren't even high.
This is the internet. You're pretty sure we're not cats.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to BenWilson,
Yes, only Emma could insult someone by having sex with them.
I think I was just complisulted.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to BenWilson,
Yup, I'm sure the ACT member really cares.
Given one is an insult, I'm pretty sure s/he would, yeah. I mean, unless they were really desperate... Oh. I see your point.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to BenWilson,
The second just brings attention to the incongruity of the two parts. But it still asserts both of them are true.
"You are a member of the ACT party, and I am going to have sex with you."
"You are a member of the ACT party, but I am going to have sex with you."
Different things.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Tom Beard,
F.U.
Seeing as you asked so nicely
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to BenWilson,
"You can take from that what you want to.''
reads to me like "no comment".
Reads to me like, "You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment."
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Up Front: Moa: Sub-Standard, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Was it always that way, or did it evolve?
IANAHistorian, but I believe it agglomerated. So in the seventies, you'd see people talking about just B&D, or S&M. One of the great writers in this area, Clarisse Thorn, who's in her twenties, describes herself as an "S&M Feminist". So like the GLITTFAB acronyms, it breaks down into its component parts sometimes as required.