Thursday, 19 February 2009

  • Blog Sluts and Attention Whores

    It is often said within the blogging community that blogging is egotistical.  This should be common sense and shouldn’t invoke any polarizing feelings, but this sentiment is sometimes expressed with implicit negativity.  I’ve never really understood why that is so.  A blog is usually a site where people like to express their thoughts.  But having a thought is as inherent to human nature as breathing, which makes egotism an intrinsic value of being alive.  In a sense, it is egotistical to want to be alive, and the only way to truly not have an ego is to stop living.  If there is nothing wrong with wanting to live, then transitive reasoning dictates that there is nothing wrong with having an ego.  There is nothing wrong with being an egotistical blogger.  However, it should be noted that there is a stark difference between a blogger who is simply egotistical and a blogger who is a downright attention whore.

    Everyone knows what a real whore is, and this should not be confused with what a slut is.  A slut is someone who has a lot of sex because they love sex.  Sluts will have sex with anyone and everyone.  (And a “bitch” is a slut who won’t have sex with me, but whatever.)  Paris Hilton is not whore.  She’s just a really good slut.  A whore, on the other hand, is someone who offers sex in exchange for something they want, which is usually money.  Whores are your run-of-the-mill prostitutes.  Prostitution is the world’s longest surviving profession for three very simple reasons:  1) It’s a relatively easy trade to learn, 2) it sells a product (sex) that is always in demand, and 3) it’s an easy way for people who are in desperate need of money to generate income.  A whore’s single motivation is to get money, regardless of how shameful they and others might perceive the job is.  They cater to their clientele just so they can get by with their lives.  However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the product will be good.  In most cases, the sex is cheap, lifeless, boring, and uninspired.  Oftentimes, the whore just lays there like a dead fish!  A whore doesn’t really want sex; a whore just wants the money. 

    Like a standard-issue whore, a blog-whore wants attention in exchange for blog entries.  There are people in the blogosphere whose sole motivation for blogging is to get people to notice them.  These are the harlots who openly say that they blog for their readers and not for themselves. These are the people who chronicle their thoughts, but feel their thoughts are worthless if they don’t receive comments.  However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that their blogs are any good.  In many cases, these blog entries are cheap, lifeless, boring, and uninspired.  A blog-whore doesn’t necessarily enjoy blogging; they just want the attention.  And like a prostitute who operates on referrals, a blog-strumpet likes to say things like, “If you like this, then please rec!”

    Every blogger has an ego, but not every blogger craves attention.  In the house of Xanga, there are essentially and objectively two types of bloggers who blog a lot:  There are (1) those who blog for comments and there are (2) those who don’t.  You are either (1) a whore or (2) a slut; there is no in-between.  If you’re someone who blogs because you’re addicted to the attention it brings to you, then you’re a blog-whore (1).  If you blog for your audience because you love the way they make you feel, then you’re a blog-streetwalker (1).  If your singular ambition in Xanga is to make it into the Top Blogs whorehouse, then you’re a blog-prostitute (1).  But, if you’re someone who gives it up easily and blogs for no other ulterior motives, then you’re a blog-slut (2).  If you blog for no reason other than to fulfill your insatiable libido to post a blog entry, then you’re a blog-skank (2) (and possibly need therapy).

    And a blog-bitch is a blog-slut who won’t blog with me.

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