I love how funny and ridiculous the

I love how funny and ridiculous the posts your fans submit are, but I think my favourite part of following this blog are your beautiful insights in equality. There are so many people who are focused on abolishing, destroying, and revenge. I love that you focus on asking questions, educating yourself, and finding new and creative ways of rethinking every story. While others are bent on destruction, you encourage building. Thank you so much for your wonderful thoughts. :)

Thank you for your kind words.  I appreciate that you find my commentary useful to you. :)  However, I’m uncomfortable with being praised in opposition to other critics and writers who express their views differently than me.  I don’t see the way I write on Escher Girls as being “better” than another way.  I think it’s more accessible to some people, but may not actually be getting through to others.  Sometimes people need to have their biases or assumptions torn down before they’re ready to learn.  Everybody is different, and everybody is different in the way they express themselves.  I think anger can be useful, because without it, people sometimes don’t understand just how important an issue is to a certain group of people, how much it hurts them, or don’t realize how pressing it is.  When you’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting for change to happen, and when you’re the one who has to deal with the negative impact in the meantime, anger is a natural thing to feel, and a perfectly reasonable thing to express.  Sometimes the people you need to get through to won’t ever realize that you can’t WAIT for them to get to your issue if they don’t see your anger and your frustration.

I just think there’s many different ways to talk about an issue.  The way I do it is just one way, and the beauty of the internet is that Escher Girls is just one of many many many sites that talk about these things, and people can choose which communities or writing or ways to present a topic works for them, and also sample all of them too.  As I said, sometimes you need one way of talking to open you up to others.

I also want to say that I choose to express myself in a specific way on Escher Girls because I see it as a more “general audience” kind of platform.  If you read my personal blog, you might change your mind on what kind of person I am (or you may not).  I allow myself to be much more angry, or emotionally charged in it, and I talk much more from my personal anecdotal experience.  Just as there are many ways for blogs to express themselves, an individual may have many ways they express themselves as well.  Also, there are some people who interpret Escher Girls as a personal attack on an artist, or that think I want government censorship, or that my jokes are “anger”.  And those people would probably disagree with your assessment of my writing.  So even the way I write can be seen as being destructive, or vengeful by some.

Anyway.  I wrote this because I really am flattered by what you said.  Like any writer, it’s nice to be told you write well.  But I take it as about the way I write working for you, but not that I’m “better” than other writers, or a better person than they are.  I don’t want others to be torn down just to build me up.  Escher Girls is a drop in the bucket of the commentary out there about the portrayal of women in pop media, and I think all of them are a valuable contribution, even the angry ones that seem as if they only want things removed.  I think it’s important to see all of this in a larger lens.  Just different aspects of a larger, greater discussion.  Some blogs talk about what’s wrong, some blogs talk about how to improve, some blogs express how fans feel, some blogs use humor, and etc… :)