I would still note that both Fran and In Wales post regularly, with their themes, and definitely influence the site, in a very positive way. I can only encourage others to do the same.
Or maybe I should write less? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
I don't think the issue is that there is too much of your stuff or too much of a certain theme but more that there is not enough of other themes. It's a bit chicken and egg - we need more themes that appeal to a broader range of interests, but we also need people with a broader range of interests to write the diaries and comment on them and thus fuel more interest...
I wish I had more time to write about all the things that interest me. Ad astra per aspera
And I also think that for Jérôme to write less is not the answer. But having broader topics and views, hopefully also more writing from women would be very helpful.
This is not, repeat, NOT, about changing anyone to accommodate anyone else!!! That would become a resentment that leads nowhere. Integrating men and women in a natural way should be ....´nat-ur-al´ and not some business textbook nonsense that just becomes another excuse not to do it.
This is about being conscious, aware and respectful about 'the other'. That´s all! ´The other´ being women, being the poor, being other races, being...... It´s doing what you do in a social context. It's that simple. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
Prior to the Intertubes, social contexts were often discrete. Family conversations, pub dirtdishing about the bosses, poker players' interdeal chitchats, teenage BFFs up in the bedroom, stag nights, hen nights, board rooms, club discussions, AA meetings, WI lectures, cafes, bus stops. Each context has its own rules and freedoms. Each context has its own behaviours. They were discrete because they were rarely overheard - 'were' because many of these contexts are now eavesdropped upon.
In online communities, almost everything is 'overheard'. We carry over our RW behaviours into this world because we are lazy. We haven't yet adjusted to the overhearing. But it will come - if we persist in the right spirit. An online community will become another discrete social context with its own rules and freedoms. You can't be me, I'm taken
Well, SusanHu has gone insane, DeAnander has gone feral and poemless is still here (and taking the top two slots on the recommended diaries list. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
