Comments on: On Being a No-Name Blogger Using Her Real Name http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/ 2007-2010 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Set.element.md http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-135459 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:11:23 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-135459 As someone who made the choice to stop blogging under my real name due to an internet stalker that I knew irl a million years ago, pre-internet, I just want to say THANK YOU. Your internal dialog is a carbon copy of mine, but I succumbed to first half. I have kids, I’m really afraid of this guy, and I am not a writer – I’m a student doctor. He has made direct comments on my apparent internet whore-dom, because I can be easily googled, which is a reflection of another interesting cultural shift. Now I can be a slut for sharing my *thoughts and ideas* indiscriminately.

What really, really sucks is that there are no laws that can keep him from emailing and harassing me to his heart’s content, as he lives in a state that doesn’t have internet stalking laws. If that isn’t a society sanctioned mess, I don’t know what is.

In any case, again, THANK YOU. You are going on my blog roll. You rock that much. :)

]]> By: Elise http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-129858 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:10:51 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-129858 Wow. Just wow. And thank you. Great post.

]]> By: freaks & squeaks http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-120458 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:25:19 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-120458 [...] thee on the feminist front?  Are Westernized women’s problems over – do we live in an egalitarian, just society that treats them with respect, as my mother’s boyfriend argues [...]

]]> By: Alex http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-115568 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:35:05 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-115568 Feel like I’m resurrecting this comment thread from the dead a little… Just wanted to add that I’m in two minds about blogging under my own name.
On the one hand, I’ve been brought up (with an IT consultant Dad) not to ever release any personal info on the internet ever, no matter what gender you are, because of the manifold possibilities for fraud, identity theft etc.
On the other hand, I too would like to be a writer, and have wanted to be one ever since I knew where books came from, just about, and I’d like to get my name out there for that.
On the third hand, I have it lucky. I’ve never had to worry about the minute my name is mentioned people will know I’m a woman. Because I can blog as “Alex C.” and my gender won’t enter into things until half-way through my argument, when the reader will suddenly go… “oh, so it’s a *girl* Alex”… hopefully by which point I’ve made my argument, and they’ve been giving it the same consideration they would an anonymous post. I like to call it Stealth Feminism :D

That doesn’t address the issue of comments though, and random idiots. Like you, again, though, I have a readership of about 4, so that’s not an issue for me yet either.

Good luck though. I’m glad it hasn’t stopped you blogging – this is a fabulous article.

]]> By: Bill Michtom http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-111479 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:50:29 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-111479 One: This is brilliant.

Two: this link: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1947410 goes to a not-found page. It is linked at these words: Not nearly as many say, “Yeah, wow, good point.”

Three: Completely and utterly unrelated, but I noticed you have a hit counter displayed. I’ve never understood their purpose to the reader, hence why they are displayed. Is there a purpose?

Thanks.

Also, I’ve been reading you at Salon since you’ve been there, but never knew about this ’til I read Kirk vs. Cristina at Pharyngula blog, where a commenter (TRiG_Ireland) linked to this post. Glad he did.

]]> By: Lexica http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-109945 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:49:15 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-109945 Rereading this (because good writing is worth rereading) and noticed that the link to Chris Clarke’s post is defunct. Here’s a link to the Wayback Machine version: http://web.archive.org/web/20070615143836/http://pandagon.net/2007/04/13/how-to-not-be-an-asshole-a-guide-for-men/

]]> By: hustle http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-109801 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:44:57 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-109801 De-lurking after a couple of weeks of happy reading, and dittoing all the positive comments above. I actually feel like this post could be a great litmus test for the feminist-friendliness of every man I know – and particularly for my current partner… Scary thought.

]]> By: Another Little Tidbit « Smile Pretty & Watch Your Back http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-109051 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:50:14 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-109051 [...] 4, 2009 at 10:00 pm (slut-shame, violence, women) Found at On Being a No-Name Blogger Using Her Real Name � Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose: “You, dear male reader, are totally not one of those men. I know this, and I appreciate it. [...]

]]> By: Why Everything You Love Is Wrong « Zombietronics http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-108696 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:12:35 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-108696 [...] have read it, but shit like this always brings me back to Kate Harding’s epic post called On Being a No-Name Blogger Using Her Real Name – about cyberbullying and why it is so shit. If you haven’t read it, perhaps you should [...]

]]> By: Quick hit: real life is so much nicer than the Internets | Geek Feminism Blog http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-107885 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:23:53 +0000 http://kateharding.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger-using-her-real-name/#comment-107885 [...] discouraging” (a) you’re right and (b) if you’ve never seen Kate Harding’s On Being a No-Name Blogger Using Her Real Name, do head on over, and, as they say, read the whole [...]

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