Emily Gould: And Now a Word from Our Blogger

“I am starting to wish the magazine had chosen to illustrate the piece some other way, though. Between those rumpled, vaguely cheesecakey photographs of me, the whole sharing-in-order-to-assess-the-risks-of-oversharing paradox and the fact that I implicitly criticized what professional bloggers are doing with their lives, the whole thing is beginning to seem like a perfect storm of Asking for It. Bloggers hate that they think I’m speaking for them. People who hate blogs and bloggers hate that a blogger was given such a prominent platform. And everyone seems to hate that I didn’t come to some neat conclusion wherein I swore off everything having to do with the Internet and writing about myself. Haters may still be jealous, but it’s becoming less and less clear to me what, exactly, it is that they’re envious of.”

Former Gawker blogger and current GalleyCat Contributing Editor Emily Gould is answering reader’s questions about her New York Times Magazine cover story.

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