Has anyone else noticed that in your Blogger profile, the first fricking line under the name of your blog is “Gender:”? What the hell is that about? Why is gender a significant indicator of blogging capacity? Of whoness? Of about meness?
Okay, I call myself Edgy Mama, so clearly I am female. And yes, I was born female–I’m a womyn born womyn. And I’ve given birth. And I write about both being a woman and giving birth, occasionally. And I don’t know where this argument is going, but I do know that I don’t care whether you are male, female, trans, or genderqueer–as long as you’re a decent writer, or, at least, an entertaining one.
Nor do I really care about your astrological sign, your Chinese horoscope, or your shoe size. Glad I got that out of my system.
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i’m sensing a little penis envy…
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman!I think somebody else wrote those words in a song!
i never noticed that before. then again, i don’t go trolling on people’s profile pages either…
pretty soon once i figure out how to import everything into my recent wordpress installation i won’t have to deal with blogger anymore. my blog, my rules, on my terms. so there.
Freak. Shoe size is a leading economic indicator in many countries.
don’t even get me started this morning, Ash.
I’m jealous Syn. I want wordpress. Is it complicated to install?
Go back to your astrological predictions, SC.
EM - my webhost has a service called “one-click install”, and it does all of the dirty work for you. all you have to do is specify a location in your webspace and it will install all of the files and prepare an empty database for you and send you an e-mail walking you through the installation step-by-step.
so i had it easy, really… but if you call or e-mail your web host they can probably help you out with it, making sure that you have a database available…
then comes the hard part: figuring out how to design a template that doesn’t look like a template.
Syntax:
I too am very interested in Wordpress. Looks like it gets a bit more complicated if you want to host on the server of your choosing (or your own server, if such is available). Have you found good how-to information on the Wordpress setup in those situations?
-A
No, I don’t want to change my template, Syn. I love my template. But I want to be able to do some of the cool wordpress thingees, like type beneath the fold.
My web host does not have the option, at the moment, it seems. Though they did just increase their bandwidth because Edgy Mama generates so many hits!
creating the ultimate “anti-template template” is my challenge. i like your template too - once your hosting service gets to the point where you can run wordpress, it probably won’t be too terribly difficult to port your template over into wordpress. (i say “probably” because i’m just now beginning to learn how to use this thing)
(”A” - you can sign up for a free wordpress.com account to test drive it and see how it works…)
You know, Anne, you’re the first person who ever showed any interest. I’m a Libra. (Nudge, nudge: What’s your sign, sweetlips?)
Hoss- it’s AnneFitten to you. (You’re, welcome, EM.) All this time, I thought you were genderqueer. (What the hell is that? I’m off to google it…). Sometimes you’re so snarky, I say, “Gee, it’s a good thing AF is a decent writer, entertaining, too.” Snark away.
That’s it. I’m pangender.
i think i’m a pendangler, but i’m not sure what that is either…
Hey, lady, I’m live-blogging the Grammies from the comfort of my own couch. (Yeah, that was a shameless plug.
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s.c., i went over there and you crapped out on me, dude. what’s up with that? you missed some good sh**.
katie, female, libra, year of the rat or something like that, shoe size 8.5, oh wait you didn’t want to know all that, oh well I already typed it
Typical woman, bitching about Wednesday on a Thursday…
Next you’ll be demanding equal pay…I knew giving you people drivers licenses and the right to vote was a mistake…now get back in the kitchen!!! My bacon’s gett’in cold…
Q, you misogynistic pig, I wrote this on Wednesday, as I had not gotten a chance to post on Thursday, because it was a snow day, and the kids were home, and I was feeding kids and doing fun craft projects all day. Happy?
I know…I just tried to think of the most offensive post and well there it is! Pretty good huh? I mean what’s the point of being a little offensive when you can be a lot offensive…
I’ll have you know though that I don’t feel this way at all in fact since seeing Mr. Mom back in 1984 my life long dream has been to be a stay at home mom! eer, dad!…I’m currently on the market for a bread winner!!!!
I know, Q. I’m just rising to your bait!