A blog is like a bikini
I think women have a love-hate relationship with bikinis or swimsuits: they show too much, and that is not good especially if what is publicly shown is not flattering.
Personally, I think every woman is beautiful if she strives to become her true self. This is not always easy in our hypermediatized world where women are socially "forced" to conform to impossibly high physical standards of beauty.
If the situation were reversed, and I was living in a society where I saw everywhere male models that looked like Brad Pitt or George Clooney, I think my self-esteem would be quite low! Anyways, this can be the subject of a passionate debate some other time...
My point here is that every blog is like a bikini: it shows publicly a lot of "information" about the blogger.
For this reason, it's important for bloggers to practice and practice and practice BEFORE they go public. This would avoid a lot of embarrassment.
In the end, a blog is like a lady in a bikini. If the lady is sexy or attractice, she can expect to hear a lot of compliments from men in the surroundings: "Hey Babe, how's it going?" Sometimes, men are more gentlemanly, as in Italy where I heard that men would give candies to women they meet in public places. Scarlett Johansson once related that story in a magazine I read somwhere, and she thought it was sweet.
The only way to know whether your blog is "sexy" enough is to enable people to subscribe. The number of subscribers IS the truth.
Just as a bikini shows the "truth" about a female body (well, unless you've had plastic surgery or such operations), a blog shows the truth about WHAT the blogger knows and, more importantly, the VALUE of that knowledge (this value is reflected in the number of people who subscribe to that blog).
Personally, I think every woman is beautiful if she strives to become her true self. This is not always easy in our hypermediatized world where women are socially "forced" to conform to impossibly high physical standards of beauty.
If the situation were reversed, and I was living in a society where I saw everywhere male models that looked like Brad Pitt or George Clooney, I think my self-esteem would be quite low! Anyways, this can be the subject of a passionate debate some other time...
My point here is that every blog is like a bikini: it shows publicly a lot of "information" about the blogger.
For this reason, it's important for bloggers to practice and practice and practice BEFORE they go public. This would avoid a lot of embarrassment.
In the end, a blog is like a lady in a bikini. If the lady is sexy or attractice, she can expect to hear a lot of compliments from men in the surroundings: "Hey Babe, how's it going?" Sometimes, men are more gentlemanly, as in Italy where I heard that men would give candies to women they meet in public places. Scarlett Johansson once related that story in a magazine I read somwhere, and she thought it was sweet.
The only way to know whether your blog is "sexy" enough is to enable people to subscribe. The number of subscribers IS the truth.
Just as a bikini shows the "truth" about a female body (well, unless you've had plastic surgery or such operations), a blog shows the truth about WHAT the blogger knows and, more importantly, the VALUE of that knowledge (this value is reflected in the number of people who subscribe to that blog).
posted by Super Peter at 10:28 PM
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