Attention Whore?

People Are Weird and I Will Never Understand Them

I spend a lot of time on these here internet tubes, and have for years now. My former job was one of those state sinecures which are invariably described as "cushy" by most everyone (and as "that hairshirt of a job" by my smarty-pants writer friend), which meant it was cool to surf all day because there was no work. A conservative estimate of the time I spend reading blogs would be 2-3 hours daily. I rarely read comments. Even if they are not nasty blind crude attacks written by people who are certain they'll never be held accountable for their actions, and who would never have the courage to say such things in person, they're rarely written understandably. As in, subject, verb, object, with a basic grasp of punctuation. It's just draining and demoralizing to read them: ugliness married to stupidity. So I have a hard time understanding why anyone does read them, as though the tubes don't contain enough good stuff to chew on.

A phenomenon I understand even less is bloggers who want comments so badly they take to scolding their readers in order to obtain them. The Fellatrix has even threatened to take her toys and go home if her readers--all 20,000 of them last week, which seems like a lot to me--don't start jumping through hoops. Apparently she runs this very enjoyable blowjob blog solely in order to garner what she calls "reader response." There are ads, polls, and all manner of links on the site, at least some of which must send a little money and/or traffic her way, but here she is shaking her finger at us, her readers, for not paying enough attention to her. I don't know about the rest of y'all but I prefer my sex blogging without the heaping dose of guilt. Sweet Jesus, woman, surely most of these readers you so long for contact with are men. There's probably no more efficient way to alienate them than whining that they're ignoring you. You've got a great site, well put together and devoted to The Almighty Blowjob, which is widely recognized as a universal good. I would say there's no way to fuck that up but it looks like you might have found it.

I kind of hope she doesn't actually read this, ever, because I have a sorrowful blog with no readers and four posts, and I wouldn't allow comments even if I did have readers. This is because I am middle-aged, judgmental, and can barely tolerate people at all. Opinions, though--I got those. As well as a more than academic interest in The Almighty Blowjob.