Comments on: Ask a Feminist

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:14:06 +0000

If you’re still looking for people to express interest, count me in? Heaven knows I spent most of my week-long “vacation” answering all sorts of questions about feminism, and it may be nice to deal with it in text instead of with someone who thinks it’s a good idea to yell whenever you point out he’s interupting.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:09:27 +0000

1. Great Yes
2. Absolutely Yes
3. No Not Qualified, Don’t know any well enough to ask

Great Idea

Steve

By: tekanji

tekanji — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:53:35 +0000

Wow, thanks for all the interest, everyone! At the end of the week I’ll send out an e-mail to everyone who expressed interest and we can see if we can get organized.

Sage said:

Personally, I’d like to see a place where rad fems and sex positives (or whatever) could both answer questions and have a more philosophical discussion around the different answers with absolutely no ad hominem arguments allowed.

I would love to see that, too. I know more sex-pos leaning people than radfems, but if you have any particular radfems in mind maybe you can see about contacting them to see if they’re interested?

Jol said:

so if there’s any need for work like researching specific points or proofing or anything that doesn’t require any expertise, just a warm body to process material, I’d be glad to contribute.

I’ll put you on the list to be e-mailed; you’d be surprised how much of a help having someone to help process and organize is. And thanks for de-lurking! I always love it when I have a chance to get to know my readers

Donna said:

The only problem I see is that outside of initial interest you might not get enough questions to use as a full blown blog, why not make it a feature of the 101 blog?

I did consider it, but the blog belongs to tigtog and I don’t want to step on her toes. I’m actually in the process of making a sister 101 site that will be directly connected with the FeministWiki that I’m (slowly, very very slowly) trying to organize, but that blog’s still in its very early planning stages. But I’ll bring it up to the volunteers and see if they think it would be a good idea to attach it to a 101 blog or keep it separate. Also, even as a separate blog I was figuring on a weekly posting schedule for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

I think seeing the different answers from several perspectives would be cool too (like a WOC feminist, a white middle class radfem, and a male feminist for one week) and could spark some interesting conversations in the comments.

That’s a great idea

By the way, should I include you in the mailing? You don’t have to commit to anything, but I must confess that you were one of the people who I was hoping would be able to help out.

By: Ragnell

Ragnell — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:23:41 +0000

I’ll do it.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:06:21 +0000

The only problem I see is that outside of initial interest you might not get enough questions to use as a full blown blog, why not make it a feature of the 101 blog? Have “Ask a Feminist Fridays” for example. Lets say there are an average of 3 to 5 questions per week, you hand them off to several bloggers and post their different answers the following week, giving them time to really think about it and getting several answers for the same question. I think you would find alot more volunteers from diverse backgrounds if you do it this way too, since there isn’t pressure to do this every day, but only the one time and maybe again at a later date but not necessarily. I think seeing the different answers from several perspectives would be cool too (like a WOC feminist, a white middle class radfem, and a male feminist for one week) and could spark some interesting conversations in the comments.

By: Jol

Jol — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:22:26 +0000

p.s. I think this is my first ever time commenting here, so I should add, this is a great blog, thank you.

By: Jol

Jol — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:21:59 +0000

Yes to #1 and #2. With #3 the spirit is willing but the knowledge and experience are worse than weak — so if there’s any need for work like researching specific points or proofing or anything that doesn’t require any expertise, just a warm body to process material, I’d be glad to contribute.

By: Sage

Sage — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:39:19 +0000

I’d volunteer for sure! Personally, I’d like to see a place where rad fems and sex positives (or whatever) could both answer questions and have a more philosophical discussion around the different answers with absolutely no ad hominem arguments allowed. It would have to be moderated by the most level-headed person in the world. (If I find one, I’ll let you know.) Because it’s not enough to keep the trolls out, someone has to make sure we don’t attack each other. This might be radically different from what you’re picturing, but I thought I’d throw it out there.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:26:27 +0000

Yes (!), yes and possibly…because I hardly blog anymore as is.

By: BetaCandy

BetaCandy — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:22:48 +0000

I’d be interested in helping and in reading.