Blogging Versus Doing Dishes

Echidne says:

Blogging (a horrible word, like having hot potatoes in your mouth) is just like doing the dishes.  You do them, then they get dirtied again, as if you never had done the work in the first place.

I feel like this, too, every time whenever

– yet another person alights on my blog and immediately informs me of what I “should do”;

– I’m told that I’m expected to respect every woman’s choices for some mysterious reason that nobody ever reveals to me;

– I get accused of things some other feminists and Liberals supposedly said and did (curiously, there are never any links provided to those things);

– I get informed that the way I write is not up to the commenter’s standards;

– very aggressive people whose blogs I never visited tell me angrily that I offend them with my aggression. It would be very easy for such people not to read a blog they find offensive, yet they always choose to take a more difficult route of trying to reform me;

– people inform me in very apologetic and careful tones that they don’t agree with every word I have ever written. As if I ever expressed a wish for people to agree with everything I say.

I experience all of these things a lot more often than I do dish-washing.