[62/366] candy, and meta-blogging

[cosmolinguist]

2 What’s your favorite candy bar?

Reece's peanut butter cups count as a candy bar, right?

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I'm having one of those days when I don't want to write anything at all. I'm fine, I'm just so busy and tired that I haven't done anything interesting or thought anything interesting to share.

But then, I see something like jesse_the_k sharing one of my entries with a nice little pull quote (that honestly I didn't remember writing and thought was pretty good when I read it!) and everything, and I'm flattered as much as anything to be included with the other entry jesse_the_k links there, which honestly was about as familiar to me as my own because I'd forgotten mine and this one was on an old favorite topic of mine: the harm of using blindness as a metaphor for ignorance or apathy. I've blogged about that l, I've written in Purple Prose about it, it gets a mention in that piece for the trans zine I so proudly finished the other day. And yet in all the times I've written about it and ranted about it, I never thought of a point that this author makes: what would we be meaning when we said something like "you're blind to the red flags," if we understood what blindness was really like?

"you're blind to the red flags" would mean "you may not be able to see the red flags, but you can still intuit their existence. You can still obtain information about their presence using your other senses and other information around you, for example the ways in which the red flags interact tangibly with things you can perceive. You can still understand what a red flag would signify without having to be able to identify that specific denotation of a red flag. You may sense the effects of the red flag using the senses that actually matter in your experience of the world and thus posit their presence just the same as a metaphorically sighted person would by perceiving them through sight."

I can't tell you how good it feels to see myself represented so much better than I can usually expect.

So anyway, it was really nice to be reminded that blogging is good and worthwhile, and it was well timed for today because I really wasn't feeling it.