For the record, I started working on this post BEFORE Lady Gaga posted this on twitter. Now the cat’s really out of the bag, so I’ll just be outright — Lady Gaga has been baked.
So, so awesome. For more, visit fashionindie.com.
So it’s recently come to my attention that an old ex-colleague of mine has offended a huge fan-base of this month’s featured blogger on 20something Bloggers, Liz from It’s Unbeweavable!. I guess my pal sort of attacked her (by some bloggers’ perspectives) in an open forum, and suddenly he was running for hills after Liz’s entourage went after him. It was all a very dramatic experience and I’m sorry that one thoughtless thread post could cause a nightmare of day — by the end of it he was no longer a member of 20something Bloggers. In fact, I just checked, and his blog post detailing the event is gone, too, but basically he shot down Liz’s ability because her blog was pink and girly and she wrote about fashion.
But it’s not easy being pink.
Yeah, we’re 20something Bloggers and we’re women now, but we’re still not men, god damn it. And if it’s necessary to write in all black type and keep things conventional and masculine-looking in order to be a worthy blogger with important things to say and content that will keep you coming back, then I guess you can count me out. Pink is not a color to be taken lightly.
Pink says I am a girl. Pink says I enjoy being a girl. Pink says ballerinas are beautiful and I love me some stiletto heels. Pink says I’m not one to mask my passion for lip gloss.
I felt bad that my friend ruined his reputation and chances within the 20something Blogger community. In one regard it is a bit disappointing that the forum can’t be controlled a little bit more, a network like 20SB should try to hold onto its users as much as it can. But it really did get ugly.
Anyway while working on my new site redesign I kept that whole situation and Liz’s deserved respect in mind. I went through dozens of color palettes to find the perfect hue of pink. And I vow to publish things that represent the pink well. And hope all those smelly boys dare try to taunt me from their big boring black blogs.
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