I don't stream of consciousness.......I use too many swear words....and the only thing that pops out at me are the three words not beginning with consonants.
I(2)Appropriate.

Howdja know!

I just caught up on this whole mess today. I'll miss BFP's blogging.

i still dont feel "caught up" on it, really. its hard to, when everyone has something to say, and it's all a tiny bit varied in each place. either way i'm betting she'll be back sooner or later. sometimes this place gets to you. and it can be good to get away for a while. i'm all for extended breaks, myself. now if i could only take one. :)

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well, peasant. i hear you. i'm not sure it's actually stream of consciousness. it might just be built to feel that way. and i think what you mean is you don't do stream of consciousness out loud. cuz i'm sure you have some going on even now. :)

...Community...Circle...Conecta...

Exactly.

Catch up.

wow. no time for that now! i left an open thread post just now because i'm already late to work. :) but thank you, i'm glad you left it, i'll inform myself lata when the whistle blows. :)

Uh... are you sure yo want to be posting that link M? I'm pretty sure that if Herself wanted idiots like me to be able to stumble across her site by accident she'd not have left in the first place.

Spoke to the woman herself, R, and she said it's okay to spread it around. :) I wouldn't have shared it if it weren't all right.

thanks M. i feel much better informed of the situation after reading that. :)

You know what I was thinking of when I read this? I have a situation that didn't end up quite how I wanted it to, and I know I did the right thing, so my first thought was "I did everything right, how come I'm not getting what I want? waaaaah" I, however, just had an epiphany as I took a shower and the cleansing water went over me. "Now is not the time. Maybe your caring and honesty will pay off later. And you'll know that you earned it without trickery or deception. Feel proud of how you acted. Or maybe it wasn't meant to be because there's something better that you never thought of. Learn from what you did to prepare yourself for whatever future is coming."

I first connected my internal monologue there to the person who wrote the article without giving credit to BFP. She's having to do some major damage control, how much easier would it be if she just ammended it and posted some links etc. She may think she's doing the right thing for her career but if you keep burning bridges rather than building them eventually you're going to have nowhere to go.

But maybe it can also apply to BFP. She may be frustrated, like I was, that doing the right thing seems to get you screwed over. She gave a cause her blood, sweat, and tears, maybe even got carpal tunnel surgery and glasses from typing so much/staring at a computer screen, and even if personal recognition isn't the reason she does what you does, it's always nice to be given credit and acknowledgement from others that you're reaching them. Fuel that burns the fire. On top of that, it's disheartening to see her points about the way WOC's work is treated being proven true - makes her dissilusioned with other feminists, and it's kinda water on the fire to do the kind of work she does.

But I hope, in the end, she will come back better and stronger than ever and realize that she can be proud of how she acted.