Pictures and Solidarity

Filed under:Blogging — posted by Anwyn on October 28, 2007 @ 12:54 pm

I’m putting my picture up.

Many of my favorite female bloggers have their pictures up, and I like having a face to put with the name. And in fact, if you image-search “Anwyn,” my picture is already available from the good ol’ TORn days. It’s time I put up a picture for search engines to find in which I’m not wearing a flannel hiking shirt fifteen sizes too big. And hey, some of us are getting together to chat; you’re going to need to know how to recognize me.

And then there are others of my favorite female bloggers who have declined to have their picture up because of jerks and morons. And no woman should have to retire their picture in disgust because of the lowest common denominator of degenerate blog cruisers. So let me clarify my picture policy right now–and this is for anybody who’s come here at random, as I know anybody who reads here regularly is far too polite even to think of doing this: Do not take time out of your day, as Rachel puts it, to tell me what’s wrong with my face. You will most likely be ignored, but if I’m feeling cattish you will receive a summary email beating along the lines of my comment on Rachel’s post. If you want to take a moment of your time to tell me I’m smokin’ hot, by all means feel free, but otherwise I simply do not care about your opinion on the subject, so don’t bother either yourself or me providing it. Likewise, do not email me offering hookups, trysts, or any other clandestine affairs.

That said … that’s what I look like. You’re welcome. And no, the wee arm around my neck is not an extra appendage–it is separate from me and attached to my son, who thinks Mom’s neck is his arm’s second home. I’m okay with that.



image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace