Comments on: Where everybody knows your name

By: threatened blogger

threatened blogger — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:07:43 +0000

If Heart means to say (in Real Life Activism V Anonymous Internet Writing) that those who write anonymously can’t also be real life activists, I say wrong, wrong, wrong… because the Internet writer is more often than not, guided by passion, and it is passion that makes the real life activist.

I agree that the pseudonym is a layer of protection that you might need. Threatened bloggers know.

Bloggers beware, that they can be easily SLAPPed in the name of comments posted on their blogs. Resisting is not easy, as you can read at http://speakoutened.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/blogger-resisting-anton-piller-search/

I wish better luck to all bloggers, whether pseudonymous or not.

By: gregory

gregory — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:02:56 +0000

“Woah. Clearly I’m not too well-informed about HTML either.”

I wouldn’t worry about it, gay rights gave us the flexible acronym,

so stick in a Q for Questioning, or Querying if we’re being pun-like.

Be a QHTML person

By: Cath Elliott

Cath Elliott — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:33:43 +0000

Hah, snap!

Do you think that’ll be my epitaph

“Here lies Cath Elliott

She was nice.”

By: Cath Elliott

Cath Elliott — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:30:02 +0000

damagedoor – no it’s not wearing. It’s not like I go on demos and stuff all the time so it’s not exactly an everyday occurrence. As Jemima says, most of the time people are supportive, and after reading the comments I get on CiF it’s actually really nice to meet people who are positive about my work.

I just have to be conscious sometimes that there are some wierdos about as well, and that not everyone who comes up to me or who recognises me is necessarily on my side. I think what worries Jemima and others is that contrary to the image people have of me, I’m actually a really nice person, and I’ll happily chat to anyone and everyone.

Polly, you’re more than welcome to join me on a demo.

By: Jemima

Jemima — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:29:14 +0000

Yes, Polly, rhymes with pong. I too have no problem with being fantastically rude to people or scaring people, but Cath forbids it. She really is too nice.

By: Polly Styrene

Polly Styrene — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:47:39 +0000

Other times its been cif posters who do post from an MRA and pro prostitution perspective who have wanted to discuss her writing, their perspective and their allegedly witty contributions on cif. Cath is always friendly and polite to the people who stop her in the street,

What like” rhymes with pong”? In addition to being the most evol woman on the internetz I’m also fantastically rude IRL Cath if you want to take me on a demo. I’ll scare ‘em.

By: Polly Styrene

Polly Styrene — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:44:07 +0000

Unfortunately I only got a B Gregory. But il fait soleil so who cares.

By: damagedoor

damagedoor — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:23:45 +0000

Thanks, Jemima. All else aside, that sounds incredibly wearing. Maybe it’s a bit like the whole ‘going up to a doctor at a party and talking about the crick in your elbow’ thing. Just because, as a journalist, you’ve written about certain things, it doesn’t mean you’re there 24/7 to talk about them, like some kind of sociological agony aunt or testing ground.

By: Jemima

Jemima — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:53:12 +0000

In answer to DamageDoor, I have been with Cath to a number of marches and events. At all of these she has been recognised by readers of cif. Most of the time people stop her asking “Are you Cath Elliott?” and is mostly followed with glowing praise for her writing. Sometimes its a look or nod of the head in acknowledgement of who she is, not overtly negative but ok. Other times its been cif posters who do post from an MRA and pro prostitution perspective who have wanted to discuss her writing, their perspective and their allegedly witty contributions on cif. Cath is always friendly and polite to the people who stop her in the street, as evidenced by her being polite to the pro lifer outside her workplace but it can be disconcerting and a number of us now ensure she is not left alone at open events just in case.

By: Gregory Carlin

Gregory Carlin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:24:29 +0000

“Well all I’m going to say Amy, is that if you have the choice to do something, you also have the choice not to do it.

So we shouldn’t assume that people who decide not to do something haven’t made a choice also.”

Translate into French and that would be the real deal.