This post is about the Thinking Blogger Awards meme that was started by (I think I’ve got the name right) Ilker Yoldas. Ironically, Yoldas, like me, doesn’t participate in many tag-someone-else memes.
Remittance Girl, Bonnie, Gillette, Anastasia, WryGirl, Cat, and Ephiphany Alone kindly named me to their lists, and several others have honorably mentioned me and I’d like to thank them all. Follow their links, too, not just because I think they’re good bloggers but because the other bloggers they name are also pretty interesting.
[I ought to mention right here that while I’m flattered to have been named a thinking blogger I’ve had to rewrite this post after boneheadedly deleting instead of saving it. At least once. So far! So much for that label. :-) —fl]
Just about everybody in my blogroll has made me think — sometimes deep thoughts, sometimes deeply erotic ones. That’s generally how people get in there so it’s neither exactly easy nor fair to single anyone out. But there are a few who, at least once, have totally turned me around and I’d like to thank them.
1) Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon. I recently did a grind through an extract of my blog, pulling out everyone I’ve linked to in posts and Marcotte was the hands-down winner. Reading her has helped me, more than anyone, realize that radical feminists care for men far, far more than the capital-P Patriarchy ever has or ever will.
2) Tie: Contemplating the now-mostly-quiet submissive Madelena of Myths and Metawhores made me completely rethink my relationship to sadomasochism, dominance, and submission. So did the enthusiastically masochistic Richard of Down on my knees.
3) Tie: Tony Comstock of Comstock Films and Sam Sugar of SugarBank two completely different pornographers who are both working to reshape the exhausted, commodifying tropes of pornography.
4) The non-sex blogger Matthew Yglesias. “Big Media Matt,” a Harvard philosophy major turned political pundit (now blogging under the banner of The Atlantic Monthly) has made me think in terms of the essential picture and instead of the bigger one, as well as showing me more about the theory and practice of practical blogging, than anyone else.
5) Heather Corinna of Scarleteen who’s made me think more about how we navigate the path from the polymorphous innocence of childhood to sexually healthy adulthood than anyone else in more than 30 years.
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Update: Five isn’t enough.
6) The now quiet DirtyTalkingGirl and Wendy of the now-dark Housewyfe & Caveman kickstarted my complete rethinking of gender-based “sexual imbalances” in relationships. If Joan Sewell had a blog (hint, hint) she’d be a very solid entry in this category as well.
7) And since this a sex blog , and since horniness tends to play a large role in sex, I really ought to name the blogger or bloggers who make me think delicious, fever-inspiring, “mmm, I’d like to try that” thoughts. For better or worse, though, men don’t kiss and tell even when it’s all only fantasy.
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Official rules of the meme.
The participation rules are simple:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).
