"I loved learning the word “extradiegetic” because it allows me to explain something about blogs that I hadn’t been able to, before. Last week Molly Fischer’s essay about “ladyblogs” got way under my skin, and I dashed off a quick response to it on my blog and thought I’d be able to leave it there, but then I woke up still thinking about it the next morning, and that night I went to a party and had a fight with someone I think of as a peer but who is a lot younger than me, a fight I tried to end by saying, “Well I’m 30, so I win!” (Getting to the point where you say this is an absolute guarantee that you didn’t just win, in case you’re wondering.) We were fighting about the short memory of the Internet, and how it might legitimately be possible for something that seems so obviously like an evolution to me to seem like a devolution to someone younger. I was reminded that it’s hard for women five years younger than I am to imagine growing up in a time when the only information about being a woman came to teenaged you via a pile of dogeared Sassys in the corner of the public library. And during this fight, I started to realize that I was jealous of these young women, and maybe clinging to something that it’s time to release."
Laughing and crying « Emily Magazine
Oh, please do go read Emily’s really great essay (post? piece? what are we calling things these days?) on Emily Magazine about … well, sort of about everything, but especially about being a woman and a writer and having to constantly wrangle with the internet.
