Comments on: How I stopped worrying about job searches and learned to love social networks

By: deanna zandt

deanna zandt — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:11:00 +0000

Thanks, Monkeu! That moment you describe is an excellent guidepost– and I also think it’s important for women to be posting things that aren’t necessarily culturally acceptable for them, too. (Some of those moments from your last birthday party come to mind…) It’s like a subversive way of saying, “No, really, women do this and think this. We’re not the prescribed versions of women that our culture often wants us to be.” I’m not advocating for Girls Gone Wild (that’s a whole ‘nother ball of wax), but we can certainly show up and give lots of versions of what it’s like to be women in this culture.

By: Miss Monkeu

Miss Monkeu — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:42:18 +0000

Really great post. As someone who doesn’t give away *too* much on line but is definitely and visibly a…bon vivant, shall we say. There’s always a moment where I pause before I post which makes it all a little less spontaneous than I’d like but a few filters now and then never hurt someone like me. It’s a more serious issue to someone who is exploring an identity that as you say may not be culturally acceptable.Do they end up going right back in the proverbial closet for fear of the myriad ways to be “outed” in this brave new world?