Poptimist #4

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

NOW 100% MORE META: my column for Pitchfork this month, spinning out of a Poptimists post last week.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't think writing that engages the reader always has to be polite! But there's a difference between provoking and sneering, between "take your best shot" and "lol n00b".

The awful conversations thing is a good point! I think people realise when they're in an awful conversation, though, and get out of it.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I wish it was true that people instinctively get out of awful conversations, I really do.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think participants in conversations which are awful to observers are often getting stuff out of them.

(I also think conversations can have a very long braking time.)

[koganbot]

Just as women get a lot out of relationships with violent, abusive men.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I like to get thrown like a boomerang and then come back and beat people up. But only once in a blue moon because sometimes I have stuff to do at work.