Sunday, September 26, 2010
"It's Just Your Opinion!"
People often respond to things I blog about with this weird reproach: "It's just your opinion!" Well, duh. Of course, I express my opinions on my blog. Wouldn't it be very strange if I expressed somebody else's? In the very fisrt post I ever wrote, I stated that blogging was the way I discovered to express my own opinions, which, unfortunately, is not something a young academic can do freely in their professional setting. Also, the header of the blog announces very clearly that this is what I'm doing here: voicing my opinions. Why some people feel the need repeatedly to reproach me for doing what I always said I was trying to do is impossible for me to comprehend.
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True that, My blog tittle is Witchy Feminist, but it clearly states it's my blog on my description. But still a blog is full of opinions.
Might be that's how people justify dismissing what you have to say; it's merely opinion, and merely YOUR opinion, and not fact, or MY opinion, therefore it's poo.
I had a lot of people do that on my old blogs -- less so on my current one.
Still very annoying, I agree.
My response is usually either, "This is a blog, not a PhD dissertation. Get over it."
Or, "Do your own research if you care so much."
Apparently, you and I are so powerful, our opinions greatly threaten many people. ;-)
-Mike
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