Post-AWOL
[ 6 Comments ] Posted by BakaElite on 12.19.07 in General Entries
So the semester is finally over, and I can at last procrastinate without feeling guilty. With no more papers to write or text chapters to outline, it feels quite liberating to have a few weeks to unwind and enjoy the holidays. With no academic obligations holding me back, I guess it’s due time I gave my poor site some attention.
A lot of things have happened, though when I think about it, the changes were all rather superficial. The things I really wanted to change remained pretty inert, which doesn’t sit well with me, seeing as the year is ending. I suppose there’s the redeeming power of new year resolutions, but I’ve decided to set some pretty realistic ones this time, and most of my resolutions are in regards to my character and habits. Thinking about how I handled my first semester as a college student, I was pretty pathetic and aside from the few moments of increased consciousness, I haven’t met personal expectations of growth.
Well, with December more than halfway done, there’s the new year to look forward to. Getting back to blogging (again! >__>), I realized that most of the other bloggers I read are predominantly female. Where are all the male bloggers out there? I know plenty of guys have blog sites, but most of them tend to be very specific–from tech geek to politico topics. They’re great and all, and I read plenty of them, but I find that there’s a lack of guys writing on personal topics. I suppose it has to do with the whole openness thing. Perspective posts and writing in general doesn’t seem to be a macho thing. In every writing class I’m in (not the required Composition courses, but actual Writing/Literature classes), females are the overwhelming majority. I don’t think it has to do with the male-to-female ratio, since in the hard sciences and mathematics, there are way more guys there. I suppose writing is just too soft? O_o?
Two out of three authors are female now, so I guess that extrapolates to the domain of online writers. Many of the personal domains seem to be operated by webmistresses, too. I’m not discounting women (in fact, I’m glad they’ve staked their voices as something prominent and worth listening to), but I’m rather discouraged that the general male population in this country feels being literary, and even being literate, is not worth it. To go from the great thinkers and writers of the Founding Fathers to the beer pong parties today, that seems to be a very steep degradation in just two and a half centuries.
Pressing Onward
[ 21 Comments ] Posted by BakaElite on 10.22.07 in General Entries
In memoriam
[ 5 Comments ] Posted by BakaElite on 10.18.07 in General Entries