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« Blogging the State of the Union | Main | what really happened »
Lived experience versus rhetoric - an open letter to 16 volt.
January 31, 2006
Dear 16-volt dimbulb,
You can attempt to assail my "rhetoric" as much as you desire, but the fact is that this is not a rhetorical blog. When I write about my feelings about love and divorce and relationships and poverty and injustice, I am writing about my lived experiences and my interactions with life, and that cannot be assailed. You cannot know how I feel about a man or all men or any man. And your lack of that knowledge causes your own rhetorical arguments to ring with a dissonance that is deafening to me.
When I started this blog, I wanted to avoid political content except as viewed through the lens of personal experience. Granted, I haven't always done that. Sometimes I immerse myself in media and bring you my impersonal response to politics. But, for the most part, I bring you me here. This is intentional. The good thing is that I've become impervious to people who attempt to assault my status as a human by using my own honesty about my personal situations as a weapon against me. It's actually that very tendency - the tendency for people to invalidate honesty or discourage subjectivity or shun emotion, nurtured by the patriarchy, that is what I am fighting against.
So, you go on raging against your little feminist windmills, dude. I'll keep living, loving, experiencing, and writing about it. With or without your approval. With or without your understanding. With or without your consent. I guess in that way I am ambivalent towards you...but I'm not looking for any validation from you anyway, so I suppose it doesn't matter.
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Comments
Can you link your readers to whatever it was that generated this memorable retort?
Nah. I'd really rather not give him/her the publicity. It's not worth it, and I think (unfortunately) the general statement above applies to so many people that it's not actually even important who inspired it.