Denigrating feminine personal journals repeats how real activists dismissed women’s consciousness-raising

Evidence

My point bears repeating: on the Web, the dialectical nature of communication is itself political in nature, regardless of content, particularly if one understands politics as the leveraging of power between connected entities. Viewed in this light, the contemporary denigration of (implicitly feminine) ‘personal’ journals by the readers and writers of (implicitly masculine) political blogs recapitulates the dismissal of consciousness-raising groups by ‘real’ political activists a generation ago. — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls, 76

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on how gendered genre hierarchies (like ‘immodesty’ panics) encode class and status signaling. — connects to: Early gatekeeping defined blogging against women’s online journaling to claim seriousness — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 107; Mythic thinking declares women wrong when their reality contradicts the myth — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 652

Broader Connections

• Early gatekeeping defined blogging against women’s online journaling to claim seriousness #expands (0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 107
• Mythic thinking declares women wrong when their reality contradicts the myth #complicates (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 652