tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post114088291950227099..comments2023-09-20T11:39:52.182-04:00Comments on Crunchy Granola: jo(e)'s Pseudonymous Memesusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000470374101306070noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1141061414556450232006-02-27T12:30:00.000-05:002006-02-27T12:30:00.000-05:00Welcome, ahistoricality! I don't know why it seems...Welcome, ahistoricality! I don't know why it seems such a hassle to me to have different online identities (which I do, I guess: i participate in work-related listservs with my real name showing). But I don't like logging in/logging out of things. But I'm glad to see someone besides me has thought about that.<BR/><BR/>ABD Mom's version of this meme mentions that she uses a pseudonym precisely b/c she writes about her daughter and she wans to protect her child's privacy. I'm hoping that Scrivener will comment on this, since he's made some different choices about this (assuming that Chloe and Ella are not, in fact, pseudonyms! It's easy enough to figure out Scrivener's RL identity but he has crafted an online name that is used much more often by bloggers writing to and about him, but he's pretty free with photos and stories about his (fabulous, amazing) daughters.)<BR/><BR/>I remember that Anna Quindlan stopped writing her NYT columns when her children were old enough to read about themselves in them. Her columns were, in a way, a precursor of mama blog posts; they often had the same kind of narrative bent to them. Phantom, if you started writing about motherhood under your own name, I guess you'd have to decide whether to try to build on the Phantom credibility or whether to have it be totally separate (something that Bitch PhD talked about a little in her version of this meme).<BR/><BR/>That jo(e) sure knows how to start a conversation!susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12000470374101306070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1141019685400067602006-02-27T00:54:00.000-05:002006-02-27T00:54:00.000-05:00The question of commenting on people's blogs pseud...The question of commenting on people's blogs pseudonymously is one that I've dealt with as well. Since I've tried hard to separate my academic and political/goofy blogging (I don't blog family stuff, much), I have sometimes had to choose which name I would use to comment on other folks' blogs under both Blogger and elsewhere.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1141009861830619332006-02-26T22:11:00.000-05:002006-02-26T22:11:00.000-05:00Thanks for this.Thanks for this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1140996885875100332006-02-26T18:34:00.000-05:002006-02-26T18:34:00.000-05:00Thanks for broadening the discussion to include a ...Thanks for broadening the discussion to include a wider range of blogs (by including your reasons to use a pseudonym as a parent and not just a professor). This is a topic I'm really trying to work through as I consider writing about mothering for the first time under my own name. What are the ethical considerations to using my family as my subject when to do so will drag their own, identifiable lives into the public sphere in some small way. I can't decide if my hesitations are fueled by the taboos of my own childhood (don't discuss what happens in the family!) or because I don't want my kids to end up like Madeleine L'Engle's!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.com