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Jessy-

I just wanted to say I thoroughly enjoyed your essay, and it shed so much light on a lot of issues I have been thinking about a lot lately. I, too, have a personal online journal, and it is a strange mix of personal and academic writings, and every day I ask myself, "who do I want my audience to be for this? Why am I writing for other people to see instead of just myself?" Who do you think is your audience, and what would you like your audience to be? What is your objective(s) in having a livejournal?

For me, Serendip is very interesting, but because it does not involve the personal, I think it can be less controversial and less vibrant than personal journals. It doesn't allow itself to get to the nitty gritty honesty of our real life sexism and the real dynamics between people of different genders in their every day personal lives. Do you agree with this?