Laura Wood on wimps
Lawrence Auster’s blog format, which Laura Wood, the Thinking Housewife, has adopted, happens not to be my favorite format. Among readers’ comments, the format leaves a vague, probably unintentional, nevertheless fairly heavy impression of sycophancy. Many readers evidently like the format, which naturally is fine with me; but, as the saying goes, it’s just not my cup of tea.
But don’t let the format bother you today. Go and read this.
(Incidentally, one suspects that the best blog format just might be the format which existed long before blogs, or the Internet, ever arrived on the scene—the standard periodical format with the familiar, stuffy, stodgy, “Dear Sir”-addressed column of “Letters to the editor.” Not, mind you, that “Dear Sir” actually works in a medium in which readers will identify themselves by handles like “Sgt. Joe Friday” and “Axe Head”! Can you imagine? “Dear Mr. Head: Your point is well taken. We can understand why you and your neighbors in Location Undisclosed might feel as you do, but for the reasons stated in the article we believe otherwise. Respectfully yours, The Editors.” It does not quite work, does it? But, anyway, you get my drift.)
December 18th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I’m glad I am not a young boy today. I don’t think it sounds like fun any more, although I enjoyed it greatly.
I do not buy into this psychological classification of alpha-male, etc. That puts people into the same category as animals, and I think we are supposed to be something higher. If we only respond like the animals, we have lost much of our humanity. If our understanding of humankind is based on such a primitive model, it cannot possibly reflect what man is truly supposed to be.
December 29th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
The Internet has its problems, anonymity one of them. Times being what they are it’s a dangerous thing to yourself to speak your mind, especially when it deviates from officially approved Truths, AND reveal your true name.
On Wood’s format–that is how you do it if you want to have a conversation uninterrupted by imbeciles and leftist Orcs.
January 16th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Axe: Your point is well taken and of course you are right, on all points.