Hypocrisy: Prejudice with a Halo
Beginning with the definition of contradiction only seems relevant: an inconsistency, discrepancy, or something that contains contradictory elements. After reading Ms. Wente’s article “Why are Bloggers Male?“, which is completely immersed in contradiction and hypocrisy, I’m left with with no other choice.
I am a 24 year old woman and I write a blog.
I believe in expressing educated opinions on relevant topics backed up by facts and research. I am confident, enjoy dinner parties, and have had no “midlife” hormonal incident that has changed me into an individual who cannot be called an idiot, when well-deserved.
Can you believe it, Ms. Wente? I am a mere woman with the “public confidence” to comment on a very heated debate that arose in the comment section of your article about male domination in the blogging world. At least, I guess that was the topic.
In my opinion, the differences in bloggers are not divided on gender lines – simple research would have presented the multiple facts to prove this argument completely flawed. It is Wente’s “instant opinion” that has failed to score her any points in this debate. If male bashing was the true intention of this article then go ahead and “spit out your opinion”, but please refrain from portraying women as victims in the big bad male blogging world. Wasn’t it this “sense of victimhood” shown by Newfoundlanders that completely disgusted you a while back?
I am a woman, not a victim.
Ms. Wente’s opinions in this article (Or is it a blog? Is there a difference?) are not based on fact. If she had done any research, she would have found an entire network of dedicated female bloggers called the BlogHer Network.
Essentially, she is writing an article (blog) about male bloggers and their need to express an “instant opinion” when she is guilty of doing just that! I don’t see any reason for it beyond creating controversy. If that was your goal then congrats, Ms. Wente! You certainly succeed in stirring up debate within this polite society of ours.
Why even bring this up, you ask?
In Margaret Wente’s world, controversy equals readers, but I would like to ask a few questions:
From where do you draw your ethics? Whether you’re writing your own blog or a comment on another’s, do you write controversial things for the sake of being sensational in a bid to acquire more hits? Or, do you do your research and write a rational and well-informed blog (comment)? Does one leave room for the other?
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Ah Ms. Wente…
I really do believe half the time she throws her journalistic integrity to the wind and writes something that will just get people talking. She also always gets away with it, well, because she’s Marg Wente.
Take the “dirty newfies” comments from a few years back. There was talks afterward, from what site I cannot remember, that she pushed that image just for the shock value alone. Enraged as we all were, we still googled her, hunted down her site, and commented in mass rage. Publicity, negative or positive, is good publicity.
To be honest I don’t know if negative publicity is good publicity. I mean I guess if you could turn it around in the long run it would be good. However, I very much doubt Ms. Wente could possibly make something good out of a Country with a very low opinion of her.
Maybe some people are into it but for me it would be terrible to have an entire country hate me.
I was going to write a blog post about this, but for that very reason I figured, why should I? It’s just what she wants.
She’s a different breed. She loves any and all attention, positive or negative. She likes when people get so worked up over her. It’s sad, really. I’m all for a bit of debate, but seriously…
Just to play devil’s advocate…
If Ms. Wente is self-aware enough to understand the effect that her writings have on people (I doubt that she is), she may actually be some kind of subtle genius.
Nothing breeds consensus like a little healthy debate, and there’s nothing that can bring people together in unison like the shared hatred of a common enemy, the enemy in this case being smug morons like herself.