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May. 8th, 2009 03:55 pmSeeing stuff on Dreamwidth that I actually want to propagate makes me feel the site has arrived, there are people here creating and not just parking their name.
So, you should read![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
forthwritten's really thoughtful piece on Steampunk, with some great discussion.
Secondly,phoenix spread a meme from zarhooie, where instead of posting a picture of yourself, you post a physical description in words. There's been quite a bit of discussion about how people feel safer at DW talking about themselves as embodied people, whether that's because they're trans, or POC, or fat, or women who are not conventionally beautiful. It's easy to hide these things on the internet, but it's also much nicer when you don't feel you have to.
The other aspect ofphoenix's comment was that it's very hard not to be self-deprecating when writing about your appearance. I think a lot of people end up with a degree of fear of being mocked for their appearance, so you sort of want to get in first and say you're ugly. And plenty of people really do believe they're a lot uglier than how they appear to others. I think this is particularly acute for girls / women between the ages of about 12 and mid-20s, but it's pretty pervasive.
( my attempt )
I'd be very interested to see other people's takes on this meme, especially as my reading list here contains a bunch of people I've met through the DW project and I often don't know what you look like if you don't have a personal portrait for an icon. Go on, describe yourself in words without saying a word about how ugly you are!
So, you should read
forthwritten's really thoughtful piece on Steampunk, with some great discussion.Secondly,
phoenix spread a meme from zarhooie, where instead of posting a picture of yourself, you post a physical description in words. There's been quite a bit of discussion about how people feel safer at DW talking about themselves as embodied people, whether that's because they're trans, or POC, or fat, or women who are not conventionally beautiful. It's easy to hide these things on the internet, but it's also much nicer when you don't feel you have to. The other aspect of
phoenix's comment was that it's very hard not to be self-deprecating when writing about your appearance. I think a lot of people end up with a degree of fear of being mocked for their appearance, so you sort of want to get in first and say you're ugly. And plenty of people really do believe they're a lot uglier than how they appear to others. I think this is particularly acute for girls / women between the ages of about 12 and mid-20s, but it's pretty pervasive. ( my attempt )
I'd be very interested to see other people's takes on this meme, especially as my reading list here contains a bunch of people I've met through the DW project and I often don't know what you look like if you don't have a personal portrait for an icon. Go on, describe yourself in words without saying a word about how ugly you are!
